Posted by DeathCafeAk
Hosted by Kris Green and Linda Johnson
Date: | Sept. 26, 2024 |
Start time: | 5:30 p.m. (GMT-9) |
End time: | 6:30 p.m. (GMT-9) |
Status: | Forthcoming |
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An Online Death Cafe
About this Death Cafe
We believe that talking about death will teach us more about how to live than how to die.
Death Cafe was started in Anchorage Alaska by Kris and other Death Positive community leaders in 2012 - but was paused by COVID in 2020. We felt, compassionately, that the opportunity to bring people together in this non-biased space was important. We realize that there is so much we can do to promote a Death Positive environment for as many as possible . . . and that, we will do!
About Kris Green and Linda Johnson
Kris has a BS in health education and women studies; Master of Arts in adult education; Masters in Counseling. Kris is a Certified Thanatologist and Certified Grief Educator. She works with Hospice, runs support groups and (through her business - "Krysalis") teaches about death, dying and grief.
Kris served as a founding moderator of the Alaska Death Cafe from 2012-2020; an active Board Member of the Palliative Care Alaska Network and the American foundation for Suicide Prevention -Alaska chapter.
As a master trainer for suicide intervention, she serves statewide as a trainer and chaplain as an Alaskan Police and Fire chaplain Associaiton.
Linda - is an RN and HR professional with > 50 yrs of experience in the field of Nursing. She's spent time in various countries as an AF Nurse (Ret. 0-5) and all roads have, seemingly, connected/reconnected her with Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue being a Certified Death Doula (2021). She is a member of Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association, and Board member of the Alaska End of Life Alliance, which provides education, advocacy and support to the Alaska community in honor of promoting a death positive environment.
Both Linda and Kris are volunteers with Providence Alaska Hospice.
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