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Community Deathcare
@communitydeathcare.bsky.social
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A holistic and community-centred approach to end-of-life care empowers individuals and their families and strengthens our bonds of relationship. We honour death as a sacred part of life.
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Amen.

(Community deathcare = love of life)
ברוך הטוב והמטיב

May this truly be beginning of a real ceasefire, and the beginning of permanent peace and *true justice* for everyone in the land.

May the memories of all those annihilated in the genocide, all those slaughtered, be for a revolution.
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Covered mortuary trolley, c.1895. The stretcher can be used separately from the wheeled base. The trolley was well used because the front wheels have been replaced with more modern equivalents. The trolley was donated to the Science Museum in 1979 by King Edward VII Hospital.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Hearse--Elaborate Pattern, S.D. Kimbark's Catalog, 1876.
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This starts next week if enough folks register-

Several free seats, and “any donation you can afford” seats are available

I really just want to get skills in hands to help folks negotiate the era that is upon us
Riding the Roller Coaster Workshop: — What A Shrink Thinks
or grown-ups who have feelings
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
Yes, this is community deathcare.

It's a big tent.
You are welcome to join us for whatever donation is affordable for you.

Grieve and laugh and remember our dead together.

Consider new and ancient frames around the partnership between living and dying,

Gently sit at the edge of the anxiety line and breathe deeply together
Mortality Workshop | Explore Mortality Mindfully — What A Shrink Thinks
Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of mortality and develop healthier responses to the life's existential realities.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
Deathcare doings.

A how-to on trouble-shooting shrouding with things we have at home.

Community deathcare = MacGyver
Ditto.
Are you interested in death, dying, loss, grief, and related topics, from historical studies to current issues? Then I'd recommend following @openthanatology.bsky.social and keeping an eye out for resources it shares.
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The recent national histrionics assure me that we need spaces to understand the link between supremacy triumphalism and death denial more than ever.

We can’t even speak accurately of the dead.

I’m doing my tiny part.
Free seats available
Mortality Workshop | Explore Mortality Mindfully — What A Shrink Thinks
Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of mortality and develop healthier responses to the life's existential realities.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
Hear, hear!
We're neutral on assisted dying, but we're not neutral on the need for better access to palliative and end of life care. We hope that throughout today's debate, peers recognise the importance of fixing palliative care, whether they support the bill or not.

#AssistedDyingBill
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Highly recommend!
And coming together in community is in and of itself soothing to our ragged hearts.
How proximity to death and dying is distributed.

Who thinks they can generally avoid it?

Who has to face it as a part of daily life?

Injustice rests on this:

3 free seats available for this pay-what-you-can workshop
Sept 24th: Wednesdays

an online workshop and peer discussion group designed for anyone who wants to expand their ability to withstand and accept existential realities, to develop healthier, more related responses to encounters with death & dying in the wider culture:

By donation/free seats open
What do you think, #Bluesky?

Is assisted death something that should be available only to the dying, or is it a human right?
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Share your skills and experience with someone beginning their career in #deathstudies.

We are still looking for mentors for the ASDS Early Career Mentoring scheme. Find out more and apply by 22 September. deathandsociety.org/mentoring/ @ddd17-2025.bsky.social
Hey #bluesky #booksky, feeling the need for community and conversation? One that's gathered around understanding how the existential fear of death drives us towards oppression and violence?

Online, free to join, free PDF, and a sweet discount on the book, Radical Mindfulness.
Existential fear of death + systems of oppression.

Seems like a good time to discuss.

Join our reading group which begins Sunday, September 14th and runs approximately six months.
FREE to attend.
FREE PDF of the book.
30% discount from the publisher till end of Oct.
rowecenter.org/radical-mind...
Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital
This is not your typical book club. Beginning September 14th, the Rowe Center will host a weekly online gathering to explore Radical Mindfulness by author James K. Rowe. In 90 minute sessions, we will...
rowecenter.org
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.
Learn the warning signs.
Keep the conversation going.
Ask for help.
Looking to improve your bedside/end-of-life skills?

This online program through the University of Toronto is topnotch.
Mindfulness Informed End of Life is a transformative, scholarly, heart-centred approach to dying...and it's in its last year at the University of Toronto.

I HIGHLY recommend this program.

#Mindfulness #EndOfLife #APDoula #MindfulnessPractice #Presence #compassion
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The BMJ @bmj.com · Sep 10
Obituary for Oliver Russell (1936-2025), a psychiatrist who championed the rights of people with learning disabilities.

Russell fought to get people with learning disabilities out of long-stay institutions and living "ordinary" lives in the community
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Dylan Thomas' rarely seen rough draft.
We still do this! Funeral homes offer all sorts of "personalized" tchotchkes for the casket.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Coffin furniture patterns c. 1823. Yale, British Art collection
Similar gilt pressed tin coffin ornaments showing flowers in urns, front and back views.
Former eBay listing
Let's get really real.
These are only some of the sympathy cards made by @ddd17-2025.bsky.social conference attendees in Utrecht! Way better than what you'd find in the drugstore card aisle, right? Digital versions are now available for download: www.deadparentswhatnow.com/sympathy-car...
#deathpositive #sympathycards