Whether your loved one dies from COVID-19, or from an unrelated illness, accident, overdose, or suicide – death looks different in the time of pandemic. Helping systems, both personal and institutional, are highly stressed. Compounding our grief over… Read More
TEDxPortland’s Salon on Mortality
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Last Updated: February 2, 2024 by hollyjpruett
“Courage emerges from Love.” ~ Priscilla Bernard Wieden Last week Amber and I entered a temple of creativity made holy on that night by courage, love, and honest talk about mortality. Five hundred souls came together in Wieden+Kennedy’s auditorium for a TEDxPortland Salon,… Read More
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Last Updated: April 6, 2023 by hollyjpruett
Washington Funeral Resources & Education
In Washington, as in most states, no one is required to purchase the services of a funeral director or funeral home when a death occurs. Many don’t know that families and community members may conduct most of the… Read More
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Last Updated: June 24, 2020 by hollyjpruett
Black Leaders Speak Out on Racism in Death and Deathcare
Six conversations & teachings I was privileged to attend In the four weeks since a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd for all the world to see, I – along with many other white folks who’ve considered ourselves good… Read More
Pandemic Care Guide
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Posted: May 3, 2020 by hollyjpruett
Whether your loved one dies from COVID-19, or from an unrelated illness, accident, overdose, or suicide – death looks different in the time of pandemic. Helping systems, both personal and institutional, are highly stressed. Compounding our grief over… Read More
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Last Updated: September 25, 2019 by hollyjpruett
Meet our new public info site: “A labor of love, so needed”
Oregon Funeral Resources & Education is a new a non-commercial public interest site dedicated to helping Oregon consumers care for their own dead with or without the assistance of a funeral director. The site is being lauded by medical and funeral industry professionals as a much-needed resource for both families and professionals.
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Last Updated: July 14, 2019 by hollyjpruett
Out Beyond the News of Good and Bad
Observations about health, mortality, and language Editor’s Note: Ever since Karen attended the very first PDX Death Café in 2013, I’ve been privileged to be on the receiving end of her ways of being “troubled aloud,” a practice… Read More
For He So Loved the World
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Last Updated: April 22, 2019 by hollyjpruett
“A willingness to be limited, so that the world can continue whether our iteration of what we’ve come up with continues or not.” With my three-month hiatus from community education now extended to six, and more time spent… Read More
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Last Updated: February 20, 2019 by hollyjpruett
PDX Death Café In the News and on the Calendar
While the public work of the Death Talk Project is still on hiatus, the next generation of PDX Death Café volunteer leaders and facilitators is continuing to respond to community requests with a busy schedule of late winter… Read More
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Last Updated: December 16, 2018 by hollyjpruett
Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Death Talk Project takes a three-month hiatus… As we come to the shortest day of the year, I’m preparing to go dark myself. Three years after founding the Death Talk Project and nearly six years since bringing Death… Read More
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Posted: November 2, 2018 by hollyjpruett
Remembering Together
On All Souls’ Day, a nod to Tucson’s community remembrance ceremony, the All Souls Procession “It’s not just dying that modern America is losing touch with; it’s death rituals as well,” writes the Washington Post in the article… Read More
The Death Talk Project
From 2016–2019 the Death Talk Project organized workshops, rituals, Death Cafés, a monthly movie night, and other events. This legacy site documents our approach to useful, honest conversation about how we die, how we mourn, and how we care for and remember our dead.
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Check out Oregon Funeral Resources & Education and The Funeral Partnership for other states.
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