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Nobody makes it out alive.
Link: http://www.theonion.com/articles/world-death-rate-holding-steady-at-100-percent,1670/
See more and comment...My talk on ”Your grief beliefs – freeing you from the myths that will keep you stuck in pain”
Posted by Kristie West on Sept. 18, 2013, 11:44 p.m.
I was honoured to have been asked to speak at the Good Funeral Awards again this year.
I spoke about the one thing that determines whether we are able to heal from our pain and love and remember those in our lives who have died easily...or stay in pain and slowly forget them: our beliefsabout grief.
Listen to it here!
The Death Cafe: Death has become too sanitised. It needs raucous laughter and a little bit of living
Posted by Clare Davies on Sept. 11, 2013, 4:49 a.m. 4 comments
"If we can't look at our dead in the flesh, how can we talk about them".
As absent from our speech as from their own funerals, the dead, too often, are erased from modern, Western society.
This essay explores the sanitisation of death, and shifting attitudes to mortality, asking how we can face our own deaths without the rituals we have relied upon for centuries to dispose of the dead.
Centring around her personal experience of hosting several Death Cafes, in this article Clare Davies explores how they might restore ritual to our mourning practices, and help us to bring out of silence, what is, increasingly, taboo ...
A message board for funeral directors, mortuary science students, and those with a morbid curiosity.
Link: http://coffin-talk.net/
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