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Establishing a Community Death Care Collective in the Yarra Ranges

Educating and resourcing community to make informed choices around death

Project details

Suggested by: Detchema

Project partner: Tecoma Uniting Church

Budget

$59,040.00

Votes

61 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

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

Budget

$59,040.00

Votes

61 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

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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.

Sola

20 Aug 2018

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.

Christina

14 Aug 2018

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.

upweycommunity

14 Aug 2018

About time!

Cathy13

13 Aug 2018

Great idea. Our society avoids death as much as possible yet we will all experience it.