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- December 18th, 2009
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Hans Christian Andersen "Historien om en Moder"
"Did you see Death go by with my little child?" "Yes," said the blackthorn bush. "But I shall not tell you which way he went unless you warm me against your heart. I am freezing to death. I am stiff…
- November 21st, 2009
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Words and Broken Bones...
"Passed away, gone to be with the Lord, expired, departed, went home".These are all very nice euphemisms for the ‘D-word.’ "It was God’s will. Time will heal. Everything happens for a reason. Y…
- November 13th, 2009
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Center for Loss & Trauma
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2009 CONTACT: Dr. Joanne Cacciatore: 602.574.1000 or Katherine Sandler: 480.861.7511…
- November 11th, 2009
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I, Rigoberta Menchu
To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you're not well, then go look…
- October 29th, 2009
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So simple, so chimp?
This amazing photo shows a group of Chimpanzees at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre in eastern Cameroon lined up solemnly near a fence after one of their fellow chimps died and is taken away.…
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So simple, so human...
The power of compassion heals.-Joanne CacciatoreI've always known, intuitively- viscerally, that the compassionate presence of another human being could heal, not just psychologically, but also the so…
- October 16th, 2009
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Parasitism: Inflammatory rhetoric of the ignorant
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pu…
- October 13th, 2009
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October 15th is Infant and Child Death Awareness Day
Reminded by beautiful Kara and KotaPress, I want to share a video produced by the MISS Foundation to recognize the children who died before their time, and the countless families left to mourn in thei…
- October 2nd, 2009
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Solitary and a Song
Loneliness and the feeling of being unheard is the most terrible poverty.Mother TeresaIn the criminal justice world, solitary confinement is used as a punishment to avert future unwanted behaviors. I…
- September 30th, 2009
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Church\'s Last Passage
I was listening to NPR and heard a rerun of a story I'd heard previously. A familiar voice. I didn't know much about him, but I remembered he was a theologian facing his own early death to cancer.Onl…
- September 23rd, 2009
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Memorial in Lafayette, Louisiana
Our congratulations to Ms Joan Conway, RN and FIMR Director on the beautiful memorial that took place on Sept 16th, 2009 in honor of Infant Mortality Awareness Month.This is a photo of the statue ded…
- September 22nd, 2009
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Redefined, Refined, and ReFound
Anna Quindlen, a former journalist for the NY Times, lost her mother to cancer when she was a teen. A master of expression, she wrote of her experience with grief in a column entitled "Life after Deat…
- September 9th, 2009
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From the MISS Foundation
ANNOUNCING! Calling all bereaved parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends! Two new MISS Foundation Fundraisers are about to be launched, and we invite you to participate and please send this email…
- August 21st, 2009
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Mea Culpa
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher StoweSomeone apologized to me for a hurtful act committed long ago. Though it was a delaye…
- July 27th, 2009
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God, an ant, and my daughter's death
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirlin…
- June 2nd, 2009
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Human Touch
i know that touching was and still is and always will be the true revolution.nikki giovanniThe largest organ in our body is skin. A piece of skin roughly the size of a half dollar contains greater tha…
- May 8th, 2009
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- April 29th, 2009
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The Path to Deliverance or Destruction
Transcendence is the only alternative to extinction. Vaclav Havel, July 4, 1994During the course of a personal tragedy- one that is immeasurably traumatic, such as the death of a child- individuals h…
- April 17th, 2009
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Spotless Minds
Clementine: Joely? What if you stay this time? Joel: I walked out the door. There's no memory left. Clementine: Come back and make up a goodbye at least, let's pretend we had one... Goodbye, Joel.…
