Tag Archives: Death and Dying

Death Is a Very Liberating Thought – Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens discusses his relationship with death and creativity. Christopher Hitchens: “One should try to write as if posthumously.”

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RIP Chritopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens died Friday December 16, 2011 Whenever a famous person dies I experience all of my unresolved grief. I feel a deep lose of a person I never met and yet I identified with deeply. This experience reminds me … Continue reading

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Inspirational: A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

By MONA SIMPSON I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be … Continue reading

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Evening

Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates love and loss. Based on a book by Susan Minot. Time After Time What good are words I say to you? They cant convey to you whats in my heart If you … Continue reading

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Children Full of Life

In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in … Continue reading

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Days with my father

Days with my father. A heartfelt photo-essay about one man’s father.

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Ikiru (to Live) – Trailer

When a stoic government official in post-war Japan learns he has terminal cancer, he realizes he has squandered his life on meaningless red tape and has no close family or friendships to lean on. This cautionary tale was directed by … Continue reading

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An interview with Stephen and Ondrea Levine – Part 1

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The Lessons of Death and Dying

Trailer for SOLACE: Wisdom of the Dying

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