Death Cafe Links and News Page
A lovely article on todays BBC's website
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34297590
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Long ago there was a Death Cafe blog post that mentioned how Barbara Karnes RN's book GONE FROM MY SIGHT helped a group of people. She's amazing. Here's an interview that just came out with her talking about how dying isn't a medical event. It's sooooo good. Enjoy!
When we set up The Natural Death Centre Charity in 1991 Nicholas Albery and I were inspired by Sheila Kitzinger and the Natural Birth Movement. Like her we think birth and death are similar events and require a similar attitude. I am so glad Sheila had a home death and a home funeral by all accounts with a natural burial. Made possible in part through the work of the Natural Death Centre.
Link: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/19/how-to-plan-for-a-good-death-sheila-kitzinger
See more and comment...Here's an article from The Atlantic that mentnions Death Cafe, and a new area of research into the effect of thinking about death which is called "Terror Management Theory." Lots of interesting research about why people do what they do, and how thinking of death changes their choices.
Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/what-good-is-thinking-about-death/394151/
See more and comment...Looking for specialists on death and dying for new public art work
Posted by info@jobannon.co.uk on April 21, 2015, 5:38 a.m.
I am an artist based in Bristol and I am making a new public art work called Dead Line, which explores our varying relationships to death and dying. The work will take place in Bristol in May 2015 and is presented presented by Mayfest in association with the 4th International Public Health and Palliative Care Conference.
As part of the work I am looking for a collection of specialists who work or have direct experience within the field of Death of Dying. As a Dead Line specialist you contribution to the work is over the phone and so you can be based anywhere and I am excited by ...
I was interviewed by a local radio station BCfm today about Death Cafe Bristol, which I facilitate here in Bristol UK. The interview is going to on the show above on Friday 10th April at 10am. If you're in the South West, please give it a listen!
Emma
Link: http://www.bcfmsilversound.co.uk/
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True story. Don't we all wish we had known him?
"I'm not afraid to die I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you're gonna die!" Captain James Kirk, Star Trek commander
"Spoiler alert: Life's a movie where everyone dies at the end." Lizzy Miles
"If you would, indeed, behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one." Kahlil Gibran (1183-1931) Lebanese poet
Wonderful way to give back to the planet by using cremated remains with viable seeds to grow trees or plants to beautify the earth.
Link: http://biourn.com/
See more and comment..."The grief becomes compact enough, with the hard edges removed, to be gently placed in one’s heart."
Link: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/memento-mori/?smid=tw-share&_r=0
See more and comment...Hello
We are running the first ever 'Digital Legacy Conference at UCL Partners, London. Call for Speakers & Scholars !
We would like those intererted in speaking at the Digital Legacy Conference 2015 to get in touch. Further details are shown below:
Website: www.DigitalLegacyConference.com
Contacy us via: www.deadsocial.org/contact-us
Thanks a lot,
James
Link: http://www.DigitalLegacyConference.com/
See more and comment...Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
Posted by Death Café A Coruña on March 2, 2015, 4:55 p.m.
Oliver Sacks, a professor of neurology at the New York University School of Medicine, is the author of many books, including “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.”
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html?_r=1
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Available to view online if you missed it on TV last night.
Being With People Like You Offers Comfort Against Death
Posted by Kathy Miller, LCPC on Feb. 7, 2015, 7:54 a.m.
"Greenberg thinks that in this odd way we try to fend off death. He figures that people who are not in your group in some very primal way make you feel invisible."
Interesting! Curious about your thoughts and impressions.
Article looks at why pain and suffering have increased at end of life, despite more use of hospice and palliative care.
"We don't have the vernacular in our society to have the conversation about the end of life," Ihrig said. "People say, 'I don't want to take away someone's hope.' But in a metastatic pancreatic cancer, for example, we have to redefine what we mean by hope," he said, citing one of the most deadly cancers.