One year ago, on October 17, we gathered 500 strong for a day-long event we called Death:OK (Let’s Talk About It). From my reflections, two weeks later: Keynoter Stephen Jenkinson alerted us to “Coping, hoping, and – when all… Read More

As with many of you, my Facebook feed and email in-box are full of the new wave of memes, articles, and programs relating to death, dying, and grief. Coming off a year of four very personal deaths, I’ve… Read More

Google “public response to Orlando shooting” and you’ll get a long list of hits about Trump’s offensive response to the massacre at the gay nightclub and the quagmire of gun legislation. But my Facebook feed was full of the… Read More

“Rituals are cairns marking the path behind us and ahead of us. Without them we lose our way.”  Robert Fulghum How do we keep a seat at the banquet table of our lives for those no longer living? What… Read More

“Rituals are cairns marking the path behind us and ahead of us. Without them we lose our way.”  Robert Fulghum How do we keep a seat at the banquet table of our lives for those no longer living? What… Read More

“Rituals are cairns marking the path behind us and ahead of us. Without them we lose our way.”  Robert Fulghum How do we keep a seat at the banquet table of our lives for those no longer living? What… Read More

The first Death Cafe I attended, the host asked, “When you picture death coming for you, what do you see?” A professor of comparative anthropology, she pointed out that most cultures throughout time have personified Death – think of the… Read More