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Death Cafe write up: June Uptown Online Death Cafe CDT
Posted by Death Cafe Uptown on June 3, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe Iowa CDT May
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on June 2, 2021, 9:56 a.m.
For our May Death Café Iowa we met via Zoom. Buffy Peters from the Bereavement Professionals Group facilitated the group. There were three individuals who attended the Death Café this month which made for a small and intimate group.
The topic of one’s awareness around death was brought up. Pre-planning and the act of smart funeral planning is important for family members. Death Doolas can be part of the pre-planning for death. Some individuals do not want family members to be around them if they are sick and dying, which is where a Death Doula would step in and be that support system for the individual.
The ...
Link: Virtual Grieving Tree for honoring the precious lives lost from COVIC-19
Posted by Heesun Kim on May 24, 2021, 9:16 p.m.
A virtual grieving space is offered from June 6th to June 13th, 2021, remotely broadcasting around the Grieiving Tree from the Lamvert campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute, CA.
Due to the tragic nature of the pandemic, most families could not bid farewell to their loved ones fully. As a collective ...
New Blog post: To facilitate or to join in?
Posted by Martin Poole on May 23, 2021, 8:26 a.m. 2 comments
I've run a few Death Cafe events over the past couple of years both in person before the pandemic and online afterwards.
This blog post isn't so much a post imparting wisdom but a question to others running Death Cafe events on their experience with being the facilitator.
Depending on numbers of attendees and how I've personally felt at the time, I've sometimes joined in as a participant in the conversations ...
Death Cafe write up: North East London Online Death Cafe BST hosted by Debbie Young & Alberta Gutteridge
Posted by Creating Conversations CIC on May 21, 2021, 8:12 a.m.
Swedish death cleaning. Just one of the topics that came out of my first virtual Death Café. Well never mind the virtual, my first Death
Café. It was planned to be a North East London gathering hosted by myself and Debbie, who is Death Café-experienced, but ended up
being a gloriously global affair with participants from yes, north-east London, but also Scotland, Ireland and Canada. Back to the death
cleaning or death decluttering. The idea behind it is to release the burden of your things from the loved ones you leave behind. ‘It’s a
loving thing to do for the people you care about.’ There was ...
Practitioners question: North East London Death Cafe hosted by Debbie Young & Alberta Gutteridge
Posted by Creating Conversations CIC on May 21, 2021, 8:08 a.m.
Swedish death cleaning. Just one of the topics that came out of my first virtual Death Café. Well never mind the virtual, my first Death Café. It was planned to be a North East London gathering hosted by myself and Debbie, who is Death Café-experienced, but ended up being ...
New Blog post: 6 signs of the dead souls
Posted by elmaya on May 17, 2021, 5:23 a.m.
When a loved one dies, the relatives are grieved. And sometimes the bereaved wonder if there is life after death. Is this soul well and where is it now? The bereaved are only too happy to wish for a sign from the afterlife. A token of the deceased person and their soul! But how can you recognize the signs of the dead soul? What is it worth paying attention to?
The first days after death ...
New Blog post: Seshendra Sharma : Story Of Life : 1927 - 2007
Posted by Saatyaki S/o Seshendra Sharma on May 17, 2021, 2:33 a.m.
Visionary Poet of the Millennium
An Indian poet Prophet
Seshendra Sharma
October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007
http://seshendrasharma.weebly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GunturuSeshendraSharma/
eBooks :http://kinige.com/author/Gunturu+Seshendra+Sharma
Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream ...
Resource: Death Perception Podcast
Posted by Casper Funeral and Cremation Services on May 12, 2021, 1:17 p.m.
Self-help host Joe Casper shares insights on living life, death, and everything in-between. Joe has a unique vantage point as a funeral director and offers helpful insights to those who are experiencing loss or planning for end of life.
ince September 2011, small groups of people across the world have gathered over tea and cake to discuss mortality. I went to one in Boulder to learn how COVID-19 and the King Soopers shooting are impacting those conversations....
See more at: DENVER'S MILE HIGH MAGAZINE
Resource: Ashgate Hospicecare launches second season of podcast which explores death, grief and end-of-life
Posted by tomashgate on May 7, 2021, 9:32 a.m.
Ashgate Hospicecare has announced that the second series of its popular podcast will be available to listeners on all popular podcast platforms from Friday 14th May.
The North Derbyshire hospice’s The Life and Death Podcast explores frank and honest conversations around death and what ‘dying well’ really ...
Death Cafe write up: Virtual Death Cafe ~ by the bay Brisbane
Posted by Jacqui on May 4, 2021, 6:26 a.m.
April 2021 - Another energetic, enthusiastic, curious international group some who have attended my DC before and others new. They openly shared their experiences, questions and were so authentic in opening up about the topic many are 'scared' or adverse to talk about...death...dying. It was a wonderful one and a half hours . We shared information and stories about
- "being present' that dying and death is not all terrible, it can be profoundly beautiful ("the beautiful and terrible")
- demystifying death and dying and normalising it
- conversation starter tools
- that a life-limiting condition can give us an opportunity to discuss and plan our wishes, our funerals and better prepare ...
Death Cafe write up: Virtual Death Cafe ~ by the bay Brisbane
Posted by Jacqui on May 4, 2021, 6:13 a.m.
March 2021 - Another international group of wonderful people who shared their experiences so openly. I am always inspired to facilitate these events because we all share and learn so much! At this event look at what we covered in 1.5 hrs!!!!! Amazing !!!
Afterlife Discussions (YouTube)
Netflix - Surviving Death
What happens after we die (Sarah Kerr)
TED talk - I see dead people : dreams and visions of the dying
Atul Gawande's book and video Being Mortel
The Little Soul in the Sun
Dancing in the Dark book
The Nurmber one queston about the afterlife and reincarnation - Suzanne Giesemann
COVID-19 and rejoicing when people's health turns positive
The ...
Death Cafe write up: Virtual Death Cafe ~ by the bay Brisbane
Posted by Jacqui on May 4, 2021, 6:05 a.m.
Feb 2021 - Small international group but always interesting people attending this Death Cafe ... some of the topics discussed
related to conversation starters to engage those we love in having these important conversations. And thinking of
them as "important" conversations rather than labelling them "difficult conversations".
We spoke of funeral rituals and their importance and a funky bluetooth item called ModURN; mentioning The Kindnes
Pandemic on Facebook - engaging in positive stories; sharing with families about what is important with a special
mention of Christmas time and how to have the Xmas you always wanted; and sharing fondest memories (the 'gifts'
of love) and how one lovely lady had young ...
New Blog post: Just what is life and what is its connection to death?
Posted by TravellingStrawberry on May 3, 2021, 4:37 a.m. 3 comments
Do dreams exist beyond life and death. Or are they some blending of the two. An interesting question is posed.
How do you know if you are even alive at all? Let me try to break it down. What is life? From what I understand life is a cooperation of matter and energy. But how is this different from… fire?,… stones? Dirt? Volcanoes and hurricanes? Or dust on your table? ...... Some would say some level ...