Te Omanga Hospice is hosting a ‘Before I die Board’ in 4 locals libraries, one week each.

A QandA-style event for anyone in the Meander Valley area of northern Tasmania, this two-hour information and death literacy advocacy event is designed to help you make informed choices about your end of life plans and wishes.

Deloraine House Inc 112 Emu Bay Rd, Deloraine TAS 7304

This event is a first for Yeppoon and proud to be hosted at Yeppoon Day & Night Pharmacy. It will be a place where those who come to the Pharmacy can gather information about and discuss decisions to be made at the end of our lives, as well as make aware what support options are in place already within the CQ region. Stories can be shared here and information gathered within the compassionate environment that is Yeppoon Day & Night Pharmacy on this day. All welcome, just turn up.

"To die well requires thought and planning". Dr Eric Fairbank. 8/8/2016. The Warrnambool and District Community Hospice is proud to present Dr Eric Fairbank's End of Life Preparation Workshop, a Dying to Know Day event, in partnership with the Port Fairy Community House in Port Fairy, 2021. This workshop is designed to give you and your family understanding and ease with the daunting task of end of life preparations. It will cover advance care planning, power of attorney, wills and other helpful end of life tips and resources. The coursework is based on Dr Fairbank's Manual for Living and Dying in Style.

To book: Please contact Port Fairy Community House to register for this event on Ph: (03) 5568 2681

What have you always been dying to ask?

Join us for a collaborative event with Miindala, Barefoot Funerals, Sim Elizabeth Death Doula, Lissa Carmela Death Doula, Gabby the Funeral Photographer and Tafe students.

• Speak to those that have made their own coffin

• Ask a Death Doula

• Have a conversation about bereavement support

• Ask a funeral director

• A personal glimpse inside funerals

• The funeral photographer.

Enjoy a cuppa and some nibbles.

All welcome to turn up. We will have a COVID registration process in place.

Come join our Death Café – an open and relaxed way to engage in organically discussing anything and everything related to death and dying. No agenda. And it’s free! RSVP through Eventbrite as there are limited places.

Conversations that we can have better when not in an emotional crisis. Despite the differences across residential aged care, the grieving process is similar no matter the borders. Let's talk about a topic that evokes an uncomfortable silence in an environment facing death daily.

Share your stories on life, grief, and loss at an intimate open mic.

The Grief Cocoon is hosting an intimate open mic to share and listen to stories on life, grief, and loss . Bring a story, a song, a poem to share, or simply a listening ear.

There will be time to connect with others and share something about the lives you've been touched by, the grief that followed, or the general experience of loss.

This is for you if:

• You're grieving a loss

• You would like to make space and time to acknowledge your grief and meet others who want to do the same

• You would like people to hear the story you have to share related to your loss

• You would like to support those who are grieving by being a witness to their stories

• You would like to have a better understanding of the experience of grief and how it impacts the lives of those who experience it

It will be a welcoming space, so there's no need to worry if you're coming alone. You'll be greeted with a warm smile and some chocolate too.

Details:

Thursday 05 Aug | 7pm (for a 7:30pm start).

Free entry for those who want to be part of the open mic

$15 for listeners

Please email thegriefcocoon@gmail.com with your name and the type of story (i.e. poem, song, prose, etc) you'd like to share as part of the open mic.

There will be a limit of 7 minutes to make sure there is time for everyone who wants to share something.

If you have any access requirements or questions, please email thegriefcocoon@gmail.com or contact Gabriela on 0412 083 202.

This event is proudly supported by Arts Gen and Footscray Community Arts Centre.

Book your ticket here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-grief-cocoon-open-mic-tickets-163021472613

A free community forum to discuss, plan and improve your knowledge of choices at end of life.

About this event

Please join us at a free online webinar to improve your knowledge of choices and services at end of life.

• Hear from our keynote speaker about palliative care and what happens as we die

• Ask our panel of experts your questions

• Link to information about government and community agencies who can support you

It might just be the most important information you've never heard…

Please note this event is now online only due to COVID.

For more information phone Health Care Consumers' Association on 6230 7800 or email reps@hcca.org.au

Hosts: Health Care Consumers’ Association, with support from Canberra Health Services and the ACT Health Directorate.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dying-to-know-day-2021-tickets-160888420597?fbclid=IwAR2yTawgzUWLWY3ZXSIUEgD3An4W9gP4BD1sIRwAdLDwMu-3zyVivlcwrMk

A free community forum to discuss, plan and improve your knowledge of choices at end of life.

Join the Health Care Consumers' Association, with support from Canberra Health Services and the ACT Health Directorate, at a free forum to discuss, plan and improve your knowledge of choices and services at end of life.

• Hear from our keynote speaker about palliative care

• Ask our panel of experts your questions

• Take part in guided table conversations about topics relating to end of life

• Find information about government and community agencies who can support you

All questions are welcome! It might just be the most important conversation you've never had...

Due to COVID restrictions, numbers are limited and all attendees must register for this event with a ticket through Eventbrite here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dying-to-know-day-2021-tickets-160888420597

For more information phone Health Care Consumers' Association on 6230 7800 or email reps@hcca.org.au

How well do we look after each other in our neighbourhoods? Have you ever had a conversation about end of life, how did it go? Have you ever thought about how to support someone you love, or know in the street who’s grieving or bereaved? Compassionate Communities are communities in which everyday people play a stronger role in the care of people at the end of life. It is an important topic as most people at the end of life spend only 5% with medical personnel and 95% with family, friends, online or within their communities. However, death and end of life is still seen as a mainly medical component, rather than a social one.

During this 'workshop'/conversation we invite community members to be part of creating compassionate communities in our local area. Please come along if you are interested, people don't have to have a lived experience, it is for anyone interested! 🙂.

Please RSVP by ringing 5491 4000

You can find out more about our community here.

Nothing is more certain than death, but the way people deal with death and dying varies across different cultures and religions. Seeking to understand the varying beliefs and practices brings a respect within the differences. Death Across Cultures Community Forum offers an opportunity to hear varying beliefs and practices around death from representatives of four faiths: Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Muslim.

The Death Across Cultures Community Forum is being held as part of Dying to Know Day is an annual campaign where our community is encouraged to start conversations about death. During August, the Town of Walkerville and Walkerville Uniting Church will provide a number of events to coincide with this campaign.

$5 per person entry, book your place here https://www.walkerville.sa.gov.au/community/events/events/death-across-cultures-community-forum

The Association of Independent Funeral Professionals | Strategy and Execution | Evolving Perspectives | Adapting to a changing world

If 2021 has taught us anything is that change, truly rapid change can happen on a global scale in the time it takes to fly from one country to another on the opposite side of the globe. All the things we have previously taken for granted – not even been aware of – as we go about our daily lives have changed. It would be a challenge to find anyone who has not, in any way, been affected by what COVID-19 has brought with it as it spread across the globe. And with these changing circumstances, so too the AIFP must change and evolve. This year’s conference will be online this year. Sessions will be held on different days across an innovative e-conferencing platform. This year’s theme Evolving Perspectives …adapting to a changing world is a response to what we’ve seen this year and what we want to see moving forward into whatever arrives. The more we are able to be adaptable, flexible, innovative, and responsive in these rapidly changing times the more likely we are to feel optimistic about the future and be able to make a difference to all those we connect within our daily lives.

Register here https://aifp.org.au/Conference-2021

We are providing an opportunity for participants to discuss, on both a practical & spiritual level; their own attitudes, feelings and needs in relation to dying & death. Coffee & Cake combo available for $10.

Email or text Helen if you would like to attend helen@spiritedmovement.com OR 0403 124 504.

A face to face private gathering where we'll play the Death Deck whilst sharing some food.

This year, Indigo Shire Council is facilitating two events in Wahgunyah and Yackandandah to provide you with all the practical advice you need to start end of life conversations and preparations with your local services: Friday 13 August - Yackandandah - Helen McGowan - Halliday Solicitors, Christine & John - North East Funerals, Jennie - Last Expressions Creative Caskets, Nicole Stephens - End Stage Matters, End of Life Doula, Rose Sexton - Advance Care Planning & Palliative Care, End Stage Matters.

Bookings are essential due to gathering restrictions. Please contact the ageing well officer by email: ageingwellofficer@indigoshire.vic.gov.au or on 1300 356 003.

What have you always been dying to ask?

Join us for a collaborative event with Miindala, Barefoot Funerals, Sim Elizabeth Death Doula, Lissa Carmela Death Doula, Gabby the Funeral Photographer and Tafe students.

• Speak to those that have made their own coffin

• Ask a Death Doula

• Have a conversation about bereavement support

• Ask a funeral director

• A personal glimpse inside funerals

• The funeral photographer.

Enjoy a cuppa and some nibbles.

All welcome to turn up. We will have a COVID registration process in place.

Death Café, a life and death conversation: Have a life affirming conversation to explore your values and ideas about life and death issues in a safe and supportive environment where strangers become friends. The group will also discuss personal responses from the movie that is screening before hand over a light lunch.

Come for the movie beforehand, and then stay for the Death Café.

This Death Café is being held as part of Dying to Know Day is an annual campaign where our community is encouraged to start conversations about death. During August, the Town of Walkerville and Walkerville Uniting Church will provide a number of events to coincide with this campaign.

Gold coin donation is asked upon entry. Book via the website here https://www.walkerville.sa.gov.au/community/events/events/death-cafe

Join us for a free movie matinee for Dying to Know Day – Death Makes Life Possible. This documentary follows cultural anthropologist and scientist Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., as she explores the mysteries of life and death from a variety of perspectives and world traditions. Schlitz has been delving into the nature of consciousness and death for the past three decades. The film looks at how popular culture deals with the ever-present fear many have about our own mortality. Death Makes Life Possible features some of the leading scientists, anthropologists, philosophers, spiritual teachers and thinkers of our time. It offers a deep and thoughtful exploration into the ultimate question we all face. Light refreshments will be provided. Gold coin donation on arrival. Genre: Documentary, Drama.

Bookings via https://events.humanitix.com/matinee-movie

This year, Indigo Shire Council is facilitating two events to provide you with all the practical advice you need to start end of life conversations and preparations with your local services. Presenters: Tony Jones - Howard Squires Funeral Directors Sue Filiopovich - End of life Doula & Advance Care Planner Sandie O'Toole - Community Nurse, Indigo North Health Julianne Whyte - Amaranth Foundation Steven Pitman -Palliative Care, Albury Wodonga Health Penny Bingham - Carer Advocate Sam Dempster - David Kotthoff Solicitors.

Bookings are essential due to gathering restrictions. Please contact the ageing well officer by email: ageingwellofficer@indigoshire.vic.gov.au or on 1300 356 003

Dying to Know Day
What to know before you go
Come and share an afternoon with experts Who will inspire, inform and help you plan your future

• Dr Arron Veltre Palliative care Specialist

• Joanne Simpson CNC Community Palliative care

• Michelle Snape Solicitor Baker and Borthwick

You’re welcome to turn up on the day.

This years dying2know day, Rosehaven Hospice is proud to present, a community forum on the importance of advance care planning and end of life care. We will have a panel of 6 guest speakers all specialists in their field, they will discuss their role in end-of-life care and the importance of advance care planning. Participants / Community Members will then be encouraged to ask questions to the panelist in regards to advance care planning and end-of-life care.

Guest speakers are:

• Dr Andrew Wettenhall - Mansfield Medical Clinic

• Andrew Howie - Funeral Director, McCormack Funerals

• Katie Lockey - Prinicipal Solicitor, Mel Ryan Glen.

• Libby Moloney - Founder and Managing director, Natural Grace

• Helen Callanan - Founder, lead educator and end of life doula, Preparing the Way

• Rosehaven Hospice representative

Bookings via https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=792066&

In Celebration of Dying To Know day 2021 we are hosting this event.

• What the heck is a doula?

• Do you need a Will before you die?

• Why are Funerals so bloody expensive?

• What happens to my body after I die?

• Burial or Cremation?

All these questions and more will be answered on the night. So pop down for a chat, fun, and a beer with Skie, Managing Director of Lifetime Funerals, local Death Doula's, and learn more about all things Death and Dying.

Jump on our Facebook page to let us know you can join us. https://www.facebook.com/events/271682771411611

Virtual Death Café – an open and relaxed way to engage in organically discussing anything and everything related to death and dying. No agenda. And it’s free! RSVP through Eventbrite and Jacqui will send you a Zoom meeting link before the event.

Community Connectors are members of the community who signpost and inform, friends, family, colleagues and neighbours about how to access support groups, services and information that might help improve their health and wellbeing. For Waratah residents only.

Limited numbers: Phone 0428578088

Join death literacy advocate Hayley West for a frank but fun information session and discussion on environmentally conscious body disposal methods, including natural burial, human composting and water cremation. Hayley is also an artist, a member of the Natural Death Advocacy Network, is on the Castlemaine Cemetery Trust and hosts death cafes.

Register here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/feed-me-to-the-roses-tickets-157752320437

Join us at the Lindisfarne Rowing Club for 2 full days of interesting conversation starters around before and after death care and the many options available. From going out green to singing – a matter of life and death, estate planning, advanced care directives, working through the aged care system, family-led death care, what doulas do, bereavement support and the many resources available; and a fantastic one on one interview (pre-recorded) with Kevin Toolis, author of “My Father’s Wake” & “9 Rules to Conquer Death” and Holistic Funeral Director Sandra Bamford we’re sure to have something for everyone…..so come and join us to start a conversation like no other!!

Or simply come along peruse the exhibits and enjoy a delicious high tea.

To find out more about Mary Eleanor Natural Funeral Care visit us here https://maryeleanor.me/