Resources and links
Death Café
connecting people
A Death Cafe is a get-together for people to talk about death over tea and cake. The idea originated with the Swiss sociologist and anthropologist Bernard Crettaz who organized the first café mortel in 2004. Jon Underwood in Hackney, East London inspired by Crettaz's work, further developed the Death Cafe model in 2011 and has now spread over 60 countries throughout the world.
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Good life, good death
end of life care support
Good Grief - The EASE project in Scotland has support to:
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help people be well-informed about the practical, legal, medical, financial, emotional and spiritual issues associated with death, dying and bereavement
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help discussions and plan for the future
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improve public policies to as acknowledge and incorporate death, dying and bereavement
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direct health and social care services support planning ahead and enable choice and control in care towards the end of life
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enable communities and individuals to help each other through the hard times which can come.
Frank
Ostaseski
inspiration care love
Read Frank's powerful book:
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The Five Invitations: Discovering what death can teach us about living fully, by Frank Ostaseski (2017)
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https://www.mettainstitute.org/about.html
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Kitchen Table Wisdom
inspiration human love
Read this touching and enlightening book:
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal, by Rachel Naomi Remen (1996)
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The Grace in Dying
The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation, by Kathleen Dowling Singh (1998)
dying - spiritual approach
Tolstoy
drama
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy (1886)
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Intimate death
dying - living - learning
Intimate death: how the dying teach us to live, by Marie de Hennezel (1998)
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Man’s Search for meaning
Man’s Search for meaning, by Victor Frankl (1946)
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a must read