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May 07, 2015 Giving birth to life and death By Amy Wright Glenn PhillyVoice Contributor Lifestyle Parenting File Art /for PhillyVoice All that lives in time and space must die in time and space.
Life is generally understood as that which occurs between birth and death. But Pujya Gurudevshri explains that life is internal and timeless, something that exists beyond the events of birth and death ...
As a death doula, Alua Arthur helps people to plan for the end of life and, when the time comes, to let go. She says that while we're conditioned to fear death, thinking and talking about it is ...
In Alua Arthur's 2023 TED Talk, she said her ideal death would happen at sunset. As a death doula, Alua Arthur helps people to plan for the end of life and, when the time comes, to let go.
August 20, 2015 A glimpse of the typical American’s life from birth to death By age 22, the typical American has lived 1,144 weeks — only a quarter of one’s life ...
Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have traversed 44 of Africa's 54 countries over four decades, documenting rituals used to mark milestones such as birth, death, and courtship, the graduation of ...
Birth, Death, and Working Life: A Critical Balance Fertility and mortality rates predict a nation’s ratio of workers to dependents—and a future of either economic growth or social unrest.
In the United States, there are about 11,500 births and 6,800 deaths every day — and to demonstrate what that would look like on a country-wide scale, Nowhere Near Ithica has created a real-time ...