May 22, 2018 | Community Engagement, Death a Love Project, Poetry, Ritual, workshops
If you couldn’t make it to the ‘Poetry at End of Life’ workshops earlier this month don’t worry. We’ll be putting them on again as part of the suite of workshops on death and dying that Kinship Ritual offers. Meanwhile some poetry...
Oct 10, 2017 | Health, Remembering, Ritual
In residential aged care facilities staff see people they’ve got to know pass away. It’s how it is. In some organisations they will get the opportunity to go to the funeral. But what are other common practices at the time of residents’ deaths? How do they...
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 7, 2017 | Death a Love Project, Death conversation, Ritual
I met Jack Bolt to find out something about donating your body to science. Jack’s wife, Kathleen died in 2015. ‘My wife and my son and I had discussed the subject of death as a matter of fact that needed to be faced. Neither Kathleen or I felt we needed a...
