I watched the documentary “A Family Undertaking” last night. It’s about home funerals. I already had a hunch that I was as much of a death radical as I am a birth radical and this video (available on Netlix) confirmed it: bring on the fleshy, life-affirming, love-emanating reality of death!
Of course, I mean “radical” here [...]
Archive for the ‘Death’ category
Jun 04 2009
Home Death Revelation!
Apr 30 2009
Can’t
Not everyone can bear children. Not everyone will bear children in the same way, or with the same outcome. The reasons for this vary widely. Sometimes there are no reasons.
In the United States 7.4% of women ages 15-44 are infertile (and almost 12% have impaired fertility). Worldwide, infertility seems to range from 3-10%.
But these numbers [...]
Apr 21 2009
“We’re Not Rocks”
This is a typical sampling of the week’s birth related news: In Australia there is an intense debate about home birth raging which intensified after a leading home birth activist delivered a stillborn baby; a recent study of 530,000 women in the Netherlands has confirmed that planned home births for low-risk pregnant people is just [...]