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...
Mar 17, 2017 | Death a Love Project, Death conversation, Social media, Vigil
When you take time every day to be online, it’s a big wide world! I find it amazing to be in touch with you now. I have a love-hate relationship with social media. I love its window on friends, family, and a community of people with rich interests. Its window on all...
Sep 6, 2016 | Memorial, Remembering, Vigil
by Jennifer Downs I spent a week with Jennifer Downs in Baltimore, Maryland in 2012. I was attending ‘home funeral’ training with Final Passages. An acupuncturist, Steiner educator and political activist, Jennifer’s tagline is ‘Wake up to your...
Mar 5, 2015 | Death conversation, Environment, Funeral options, Green funeral, Sustainable, Vigil
The Funeral event in the 2015 Sustainable Living Festival (SLF). Can I say it was like a party? You don’t know who’s going to make it. Low grade anxiety. It’s a hot night. You’ve done your best with watermelon and snacks and cold bubbly water....
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...
Jul 1, 2014 | Children, Death cafe, Death conversation, Funeral options, Vigil
The Wheeler Centre does great events. Think about inviting a panel of kids, primary to Year 12, from St Martins Youth Arts to address adults about death. It was a bit like a Death Cafe with an audience. What did I learn from the panel’s exchange with Natasha...
