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Funeral Homes 101: What You Need to Know At a Vulnerable Time
Dialogues on Living & Dying Well with guest, Rachel Zeldin Without knowledge of the options available to us, we are unable to make the best choice for ourselves and support our loved ones to make their own choices as well. -Kim Adams View the June 9th webinar series featuring I'm Sorry To ...
Continue ReadingPhilly funeral homes should post prices online
By Rachel Zeldin for Philadelphia Media Network Planning a funeral is extremely difficult, and not just because someone you love has died. The process is chaotic and time-consuming, and having many funeral homes stuck in the pre-Internet age doesn't help. If you are like most people, you have never purchased ...
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia Media Network profits from digital incubator partnerships
By Mark Toner for INMA When sales representatives for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com call on clients, they know the advertising collateral on their iPads — rate cards, samples, and advertising guidelines — is up to date. That’s because a mobile document management system developed by ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: More to Dying Than Meets the Eye
In this TEDX Talk by Martha Atkins, she will explain deathbed phenomena and present on-going research about the topic. Accounts from the dying and bedside witnesses will be shared. Those who work with the dying are familiar with patients seeing long deceased loved ones, angelic beings, even hearing music and comforting ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Biophysicist Discovers New Life After Death
Joyce Hawkes, PhD is a biophysicist and cell-biologist turned healer. Honored with a National Achievement Award for her work with the effects of environmental pollutants on fish cells, she is a post-doctoral Fellow with National Institutes of Health and was elected to the position of Fellow in the American Association for Advancement ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: A Good Goodbye with Gail Rubin
Don’t plan to die? Bad news – humans have a 100% mortality rate. Yet only 30% of us make end-of-life plans: wills or trusts, advance medical directives and pre-need funeral planning. That leaves 70% of us unprepared and devastated, not if, but when a death occurs. Listen to Gail Rubin ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: "Dying to be me!" TEDx Talk by Anita Moorjani
TEDX Talk by Anita Moorjani Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital in a coma on the morning of February 2nd, 2006. Unable to move as a result of the cancer that had ravaged her body for almost four years, Anita entered ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: The Gift of Near Death by Lewis Brown Griggs
A TEDX Talk by Lewis Brown Griggs: Why do so many of us focus on the story of our shortcomings? How can our uniqueness be recognized as the greatest gift we bring to one another? Through his lives and near deaths, Lewis Brown Griggs shares transformational perspectives on how our ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Life that doesn't end with death by Kelli Swazey
A TEDMed talk by Kelli Swazey In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren't the social gatherings that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals form the center of social life. Anthropologist Kelli Swazey takes a look at this culture, in which the bodies of dead relatives ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: From life to death, beyond and back by Dr. Thomas Fleischmann
A TEDX Talk by Dr. Thomas Fleischmann Dr. Fleischmann sees dead people. Hundreds and thousands of them. To put it clearly, he has seen over 2,000 humans die. But also brought back to life. In his talk, he shares the near death experiences ("Nahtoderfahrungen") he witnessed as an emergency physician and tells ...
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