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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life
Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life
Thinking about death is frightening, but planning ahead is practical and leaves more room for peace of mind in our final days. In a solemn, thoughtful talk, Judy MacDonald Johnston shares 5 practices for planning for a good end of life.
By day, Judy MacDonald develops children’s reading programs. By night, she helps others maintain their quality of life as they near death.
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO HER?
Judy MacDonald Johnston is the Publisher and Cofounder of Blue Lake Children’s Publishing, which develops educational reading tools for preschoolers through a program called the Tessy and Tab Reading Club. Johnston’s credo, “love words early,” and her focus on the earliest years of life, is an interesting foil for her other passion: Planning for end of life. Johnston’s side project, Good [End of] Life, deals not with happy babies decoding symbols, but with a much more morbid topic: Death. Good [End of] Life is a set of online worksheets and practices that aim to help deal with difficult questions — like who should speak for you if you cannot speak, and whether to fill out a do-not-resuscitate form — before it’s too late.
In the past 15 years alone Johnston has founded two other companies in addition to Blue Lake Children’s Publishing: PrintPaks, a children’s software company, and Kibu, a social networking site for teenage girls. Previously Johnston was a Worldwide Project Marketing Manager at Hewlett Packard.
“[Johnston]’s leveraged every single advantage she’s been given into creating a hundred times that for others, never holding tight to wisdom or resources, but investing them where they’ll do the most good next.” from 50-for-50
How Michael Jackson’s death unfolded
How Michael Jackson’s death unfolded
CNN’s Randi Kaye reports on the death of entertainer Michael Jackson and the ensuing investigation.
Every man dies, not every man really lives
Every man dies, not every man really lives
Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
Throughout humankind’s history, we’ve driven species after species extinct: the passenger pigeon, the Eastern cougar, the dodo … But now, says Stewart Brand, we have the technology (and the biology) to bring back species that humanity wiped out. So — should we? Which ones? He asks a big question whose answer is closer than you may think.
Since the counterculture ’60s, Stewart Brand has been creating our internet-worked world. Now, with biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, Stewart Brand has a bold new plan.
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO HIM?
With biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, the revival of extinct species is becoming possible. Stewart Brand plans to not only bring species back but restore them to the wild.
Brand is already a legend in the tech industry for things he’s created: the Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL, the Global Business Network, the Long Now Foundation, and the notion that “information wants to be free.” Now Brand, a lifelong environmentalist, wants to re-create — or “de-extinct” — a few animals that’ve disappeared from the planet.
Granted, resurrecting the woolly mammoth using ancient DNA may sound like mad science. But Brand’s Revive and Restore project has an entirely rational goal: to learn what causes extinctions so we can protect currently endangered species, preserve genetic and biological diversity, repair depleted ecosystems, and essentially “undo harm that humans have caused in the past.”
CISSY HOUSTON’S INTERVIEW – WHITNEY HOUSTON’S MOTHER ON TODAY SHOW – NBC
CISSY HOUSTON‘S INTERVIEW – WHITNEY HOUSTON’S MOTHER ON TODAY SHOW – NBC
The loss of a child is devastating for a parent, and Whitney Houston’s mother Cissy is no different. But while she remains in mourning for the loss of her talented daughter last January, Cissy is very tough-minded about the decisions Whitney made that sent her down the path toward her early death from accidental drowning, heart failure and cocaine use.
Dr. Webster Appearance on “On the Line”: Loss of a Parent
Dr. Webster Appearance on “On the Line”: Loss of a Parent
Christine Williams hosts On the Line, with special guest Dr. Bill Webster. This episode focusses on Loss of a Parent. Video Courtesy CTS Television.
Deborah Antinori and Dr Heidi Horsley; Adult Children and the Loss of Elderly Parents
Deborah Antinori and Dr Heidi Horsley; Adult Children and the Loss of Elderly Parents
Deborah Antinori & Dr Heidi Horsley talk about adult children & the loss of elderly parents at the annual ADEC conference.
Never The Same: Coming To Terms with the Death of a Parent
Never The Same: Coming To Terms with the Death of a Parent
Dr. Donna Schuurman joins The Balancing Act to talk about her book “Never the Same” and how we can better help young people deal with the loss of a parent or loved one.
