Sep 8, 2017 | Family led funerals, Funeral options, Ritual, Vigil
This weekend I’ll be presenting at the first Melbourne Festival of Death and Dying. My topic is Rituals of Laying Out and Vigil. I’m an educator and my goal is to help people to learn more about end of life practices they’re unfamiliar with. I wonder...
Sep 28, 2016 | Death conversation, Family led funerals, Funeral options, Green funeral, Uncategorized
The US social landscape is unique in the way it makes room for the vocation and concern of citizenship. I’ve learned this through being a practitioner in deliberative democracy over many years. Today Trump and Clinton strut the last days of their campaign in the...
Feb 13, 2015 | Family led funerals, Green funeral, Remembering, Vigil
In this post I use the word vigil, but not in a religious sense. I’ve made vigil the topic for the Sustainable Funeral event at this year’s Sustainable Living Festival (SLF) event. I think of a vigil as a continuous, intimate thread of care. Some want to...
Apr 9, 2014 | Family led funerals, Green funeral, Services
Thirty years’ ago Australians’ life expectancy grew substantially. This post looks at the implications for funeral options. Thirty years’ ago public health initiatives had cut down infant mortality. TAC style campaigns reduced teenage drunk driving...
