Planning Important Conversations Around Mortality
Did you know? Not speaking about dying and death is like trying to keep a secret – it takes energy. Speaking about it frees up that energy, leaving you to…
Category: Important Conversations
Green Burial
GREEN BURIAL. WHAT IS IT? As life would have it, the jury is still out on what actually constitutes green burial. I personally like the Green Burial Society of Canada’s…
Decision Making and Capacity Assessment
In keeping with our theme of caregiving, decision-making, and guardianship, at the latest Death Literacy YEG Meetup we discussed in more detail what the spectrum of capacity looks like, and…
Caregiving, Guardianship, and Levels of Decision Making
In the last post we talked about caring for caregivers. We discussed how to use change management strategies to find control through difficult changes. We reviewed the three key components…
Caring For The Caregivers
I recently facilitated a Death Literacy session focused on caregiver support. How to support the aging and ill is something I get asked about a lot, as people are never…
Death Cafe: Curiouser and Curiouser
With a new batch of curious Café-ers due to recent newspaper and radio coverage, we kicked off the May 15th Death Café meeting with a round table of introductions and…