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Death and Dying
New Year’s top five: The most popular articles of 2017
We’ve been sharing our most-read articles of 2017 on Facebook and Twitter. Here is the full list. #5 Mystical Experience, the…
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A Simple State of Being That Never Truly Dies
Moving toward death is its own kind of expectant worship.
Robert Stephen Dicken
Grief Manifesto: Linda Heacock’s Death As Told by Her Daughter
As I did some yard work for a friend, I found a dead bird in one of her beds. I…
Empathy
I sit quietly in meeting for worship, envisioning the Light Within and knowing that I am being held very gently…
A Brief Dance with Death
In October 2008 I had my first mammogram. The next day, I received a call. "There is an asymmetry on…
Parting Time
The end came early and unexpectedly for my friend Sue, and in a few days I will join her family…
Haunting Presentations
Into the Abyss and Back
Held in the Light: Norman Morrison’s Sacrifice for Peace and His Family’s Journey of Healing By Anne Morrison Welsh, with…
Living Near the End of Life: Queries for the Elderly
Crosslands is one of a number of Quaker retirement communities in the Philadelphia area. In existence for over 30 years,…
The Living Tithe
Still, I've made a step toward that goal by opening myself to transformation into someone who more deeply lives the…
The Miracle of Death
On May 10, 2006, my wife and partner of a quarter century, Deborah "Misty" Gerner, who was under treatment for…
Sandy's Orders
Sandy Mershon grew up in a large Catholic family, one of eight children, all brought up in the faith of…
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