This is an important topic to speak on. People do not need to grieve alone. It can feel to be devastating when a loved one dies. I am curious to attend some workshops and look my own mortality with my head up and eyes open.
Establishing a Community Death Care Collective in the Yarra Ranges
Educating and resourcing community to make informed choices around death
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Suggested by: Detchema
Project partner: Tecoma Uniting Church
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Eastern Metro
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Our Death & Dying Collective aims to:
• Create a death and dying resource library
• Create an information and resource based website with links to relevant services
• Host a regular educational series of talks and workshops on death and dying
• Host monthly film screenings and open conversations around death & dying
• Host monthly facilitated grieving Circles
• Host a local expo/conference in conjunction with National Dying to Know week
• Host an annual ‘Day of the Dead’ to honour the lives of those who have died
• Establish a community Threshold Choir
We aim to create a death friendly and death literate community by:
• Normalising death and dying as part of our natural life cycle
• Easing fear and anxieties about death
• Collaborating to empower choices around humane and ecological end of life pathways
• Building compassionate communities willing to respond to death and loss in conscious and meaningful ways
• Empowering skills of caring for the dying at home
• Returning death into the hands of the community to be honoured as deeply sacred
• Offering opportunities for contemplating death as a whole life experience
Project details
Suggested by: Detchema
Project partner: Tecoma Uniting Church
Region
Eastern Metro
Budget
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61 votes received
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Our community needs a process such as this to assist individuals, friends and family to demystify and lift the veil around this sacred part of being human.
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About time!
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Great idea. Our society avoids death as much as possible yet we will all experience it.
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Bill
06 Sep 2018
Normalising death may help to also promote a sense of gratitude for the time which is spent living. In a way, stimulating interest in the basics of family and community. We are all 'up against the clock' - it's important that people are reminded of that fact.