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Video: Mooji on feelings of grief and the wish to just escape

Mooji reads a letter from someone who has recently lost their partner, and is experiencing feelings of grief and a wish to just escape fr...

Cleaning up before you die: The Swedish art of döstädning

By Susanne Duijvestein, sustainable funeral director at Bijafscheid During a vacation as a teenager, I decided to clean up some closets w...

What do you tell somebody who is grieving? Annemiek Dogan provides a few simple pointers

By Annemiek Dogan who speaks and writes on grief. We often find it difficult to be with someone who is grieving. What do you say, what do...

Find happiness by contemplating your mortality

Trends by Stefanie Schillmöller and her research in Good Grief The WeCroak app is a smartphone app based on the Bhutanese principle that...

Repost: Jeff Foster, What happens when we die?

From @jefffosterofficial: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE Jeff Foster is an author and spiritual teacher from England. He has written several bo...

Susanne's recommendations for a natural coffin

By Susanne Duijvestein, sustainable funeral director at Bijafscheid Even if you'd rather never think of it (after all, who wants to lie i...

Documentary: Empty your mind and sooth your soul with My Octopus Teacher

It is a story as old as time, and yet totally new in todays’ world. About a human that befriends a wild animal. About a unique and unlike...

4 Tips to bring the mourning process into your organisation

Trends by Stefanie Schillmöller and her research in Good Grief The need for a space for mourning slowly seeps into to various levels of s...

A special partnership between Carpet of Life and Deyja

On Deyja you can now transform the wardrobe of your deceased loved-one into a unique boucherouite carpet. From experience we know that de...

Death. How do they do it in Tibet?

In the high mountains of Tibet and China, there is the age-old tradition where a dead body is left in the mountains as food for predators.

Oceana explores the expression of grief through the body

Oceana Sawyer explores new ways to use the expression of grief through the body.

Contemplation: dealing with life's great challenges and changes

"The secret of the universe" is about how we can accept pain and loss in our lives. A simple but powerful tool to find surrender.

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