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Preserving a loved one's tattoos after death
Chris Wenzel's lifelong love affair with tattooing began when he was just nine years old when his aunt asked him to design her a tattoo, one he ended up partly inking on her skin himself. By the time he was teenager, both his arms were completely covered in skin art. As an adult, he was a respected tattoo artist who owned Electric Underground Tattoos Inc, a studio in Saskatoon, Canada. "He loved seeing the ink on people's skin, fell in love with it," says his wife Cheryl, who now runs the tattoo studio with a business partner.
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Do not weep for your dead: how to mourn as the Stoics did
Imagine you are at a child’s funeral. The child is yours. The air is numb with silence. An ache so deep you can barely breathe moves through you, until it bursts and you cry out loud. Somebody passes a tissue; another rests his hand on your shoulder. In time, your eyes run out of tears. But now there is a hole in your heart in the shape of a child, and it feels like it will never heal. Maybe it shouldn’t, you think to yourself. You lost a child. This stays with you. It’s supposed to stay with you. How should we grieve when someone close to us dies? Should we wail and gnash our teeth? Should we swallow our pain?
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Scientists spur activity in brains of dead pigs, raising both hope and ethical questions
Scientists restore some activity within the brains of dead pigs, raising hopes it could lead to new therapies for stroke and other conditions.
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When Psychedelics Make Your Last Months Alive Worth Living
In the spring of 2018, Dan G. learned that the melanoma he had beaten 18 years earlier had returned and spread to his liver and lungs. After several months of chemo and immunotherapy, the 44-year-old decided the traditional treatments he’d been undergoing weren’t enough. The crippling side effects of the drugs had left him feeling hollow—and only exacerbated his already acute feelings of anxiety and depression. He often felt too decimated, both physically and mentally, to spend quality time with his wife and four-year-old son.
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People getting stabbed in medieval art who just don't give a damn.
See the funniest examples of medieval art where people are getting stabbed but just don’t give a damn.
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The Inkheart’s Prayer
I am enamored with the aspects you choose to share. Such beauty transcends your physical glory and what you believe to be the flaws of your mind. Who am I to place the ideal of my fascination upon …
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She ran from abusive step dad, wound up with a pimp until a Christian family adopted her
Jadyn’s mom was a meth addict who died when she was in high school in 2010. She lived with her step-dad, who abused her. A teacher found out and called Child Protective Services. Jadyn moved …
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What People Actually Say Before They Die
Mort Felix liked to say that his name, when read as two Latin words, meant “happy death.” When he was sick with the flu, he used to jokingly remind his wife, Susan, that he wanted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” played at his deathbed. But when his life’s end arrived at the age of 77, he lay in his study in his Berkeley, California, home, his body besieged by cancer and his consciousness cradled in morphine, uninterested in music and refusing food as he dwindled away over three weeks in 2012. “Enough,” he told Susan. “Thank you, and I love you, and enough.” When she came downstairs the next morning, she found Felix dead.
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There is no death, only a series of eternal ‘nows’
Here we tell you what happens after you’re dead. Seriously. Okay, it’s not so serious, because you won’t actually die. To lay the groundwork, let’s recap the scientific view of death: essentially, you drop dead and that’s the end of everything. This is the view favoured by intellectuals who pride themselves on being stoic and realistic enough to avoid cowardly refuge in Karl Marx’s spiritual ‘opium’ – the belief in an afterlife. This modern view is not a cheerful one.
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How Do You Serve The Lord With Gladness?
Serve The Lord With Gladness Yesterday was Sunday and the discussion in my family centered on prayer, and asking the Lord for things. We watched Kerry Shook message on the tv together. He was talking about the need to pray for things we want. How if we do not ask for we will not get. That started me thinking, what
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WWE interviewer 'Mean' Gene Okerlund dead at 76
"Mean" Gene Okerlund, one of the voices synonymous with professional wrestling as a host, in-ring announcer and interviewer since the mid-1980s, has died at the age of 76.
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Deaths: Actor Bob Einstein, 'Super Dave Osborne' and Marty Funkhouser on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Deaths: Actor Bob Einstein, 'Super Dave Osborne' and Marty Funkhouser on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
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A prayer for families to pray every day, by Mother Teresa
As Venerable Patrick Peyton famously said, “The family that prays together, stays together.” Prayer is vital to a united family life and is the surest way to keep everyone together, no …
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Indonesia tsunami: Boyband Seventeen hit by disaster as wave sweeps through concert, killing bassist and manager
A tsunami triggered by a volcano eruption in Indonesia swept through a boyband’s concert, killing the bassist and manager.
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So Disney Just Gon' Kill Mufasa Again for a Whole New Generation of Kids with This The Lion King Live-Action Remake, Huh?
It is officially official: the live-action version of The Lion King, with all of your faves, will hit theaters in July 2019 so we can all excitedly watch Mufasa die. Again. Twenty-five years after he died the first time. By Panama Jackson.
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Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths
Twenty six-year old Miyu Kojima works for a company that cleans up after kodokushi (孤独死) or lonely deaths: a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time.
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Disrupting the reaper: Tech titans' quest for immortality rages forward
Silicon Valley takes on the quest for immortality.
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Hollywood star Burt Reynolds dies, 82
Burt Reynolds dies, aged 82 - he starred in a string of hits in the 1970s, including Smokey and the Bandit and Deliverance
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On the Remembrance of Death
Death is perhaps one of the most terrifying concepts a human being can grapple with... By Mustapha Itani.
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Have we forgotten how to die?
Julie-Marie Strange reflects on our relationship with death in the modern world.
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