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  1. It's THAT time of year again - @lifting_the_lid_festival has opened up ticket sales for the fifth annual event this November!

    Information, networking, entertainment, food for thought, discussions and all the best of deathly content is yours for a remarkably low price. A full three days of excitement awaits you - get your ticket here: tickettailor.com/events/liftin

    #DeathLiteracy #DeathPositive #event #festival #GoodStuff #tickets #EndOfLife #Death #Dying

  2. En tant qu'👨‍🦼 il y a l'épuisement incessant de chercher si un événement public sera dans un lieu access', ou bien pour d'autres personnes handies d'autres formes d'in/accessibilité (les camarades sourd-es dont l'interprétariat LSF est très rare, etc).
    Désormais il y a la double peine de savoir si l'événement sera avec des mesures d'#AutodéfenseSanitaire virale engagées. Ce qui n'est quasi jamais le cas.

    La semaine prochaine à #Grenoble il y a un festival de 3j autour de la mort #DeathPositive, qui m'intéresse fort. Sauf qu'une fois de plus je n'y vais pas car l'événement sera, comme partout, démasqué. Étonnamment, pas envie de choper la mort par #COVID. 🙄

  3. If you're death positive and have studied the process of dying and grief, there's nothing new here, but I still found this worthwhile.

    #death #DeathPositive #caregiver

    Hadley Vlahos: A Hospice Nurse on Caregiving, Fear of the Unknown, and Having a ‘Death-Positive Household’ | SELF
    self.com/story/hadley-vlahos-i

  4. “Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
    Frozen in the headlights
    It seems I’ve made
    the final sacrifice”

    Florence + the Machine, Rabbit Heart

    This is another painting about mental health.
    You will often see dead or sleeping (mostly dead…) rabbits in my paintings. They carry a meaning of sadness, regret and sacrifice.
    However, they also carry the idea of returning to the Earth after death, which is what I ideally would like to be done with my body.

    https://www.francescazambon.it/rabbit-heart/

    #DeathPositive #Digital #Krita #MentalHealth

  5. ART MACABRE ☠️ En septembre, j’ai participé au XXe congrès international de Danses Macabres d’Europe, association de recherche sur l’art macabre européen que j’ai rejointe en début d’année.

    J’ai aussi publié une analyse comparative des boîtes à crâne en #Bretagne et en #Lorraine dans leur bulletin, et donné une conférence sur les boîtes à crâne bretonnes depuis le cimetière de Saint-Fiacre. 🥰

    Plus d'infos → danses-macabres-europe.org/

    #mort #macabre #deathpositive #histoiredelart #breizh

  6. It's #FridayFriends day!

    An open access journal article about end of life doulas has been published in Palliative Care and Social Practice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    Led by the incredible Marian Marian Krawczyk, the International End of Life Doula Research Group IEOLDRG members Emma Clare, Erin Collins, Sarah Farr, Elizabeth Johnson, Jennifer Mallmes, Annetta Mallon (me!), Kelly Oberle, and Jennifer Rigal all contributed to this article.

    I'm honoured and grateful to work with this group.

    What's happening in your Friday world?

    #GDEP #IEOLDRG #EOLD #EOLDoula #DeathDoula #research #academia #writing #DeathPositive #AcademicChatter

  7. It's #FridayFriends day!

    An open access journal article about end of life doulas has been published in Palliative Care and Social Practice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    Led by the incredible Marian Marian Krawczyk, the International End of Life Doula Research Group IEOLDRG members Emma Clare, Erin Collins, Sarah Farr, Elizabeth Johnson, Jennifer Mallmes, Annetta Mallon (me!), Kelly Oberle, and Jennifer Rigal all contributed to this article.

    I'm honoured and grateful to work with this group.

    What's happening in your Friday world?

    #GDEP #IEOLDRG #EOLD #EOLDoula #DeathDoula #research #academia #writing #DeathPositive #AcademicChatter

  8. It's #FridayFriends day!

    An open access journal article about end of life doulas has been published in Palliative Care and Social Practice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    Led by the incredible Marian Marian Krawczyk, the International End of Life Doula Research Group IEOLDRG members Emma Clare, Erin Collins, Sarah Farr, Elizabeth Johnson, Jennifer Mallmes, Annetta Mallon (me!), Kelly Oberle, and Jennifer Rigal all contributed to this article.

    I'm honoured and grateful to work with this group.

    What's happening in your Friday world?

    #GDEP #IEOLDRG #EOLD #EOLDoula #DeathDoula #research #academia #writing #DeathPositive #AcademicChatter

  9. It's #FridayFriends day!

    An open access journal article about end of life doulas has been published in Palliative Care and Social Practice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    Led by the incredible Marian Marian Krawczyk, the International End of Life Doula Research Group IEOLDRG members Emma Clare, Erin Collins, Sarah Farr, Elizabeth Johnson, Jennifer Mallmes, Annetta Mallon (me!), Kelly Oberle, and Jennifer Rigal all contributed to this article.

    I'm honoured and grateful to work with this group.

    What's happening in your Friday world?

    #GDEP #IEOLDRG #EOLD #EOLDoula #DeathDoula #research #academia #writing #DeathPositive #AcademicChatter

  10. Thought I’d do an updated #introductions post… I joined :mw: in November 2022. I live in the Midwest US with my 2 rescue kitties, Oliver and Melvin. Here are a few topics that I’m interested in and sometimes post about!

    #weirdhistory #morbidhistory#paranormal #ghosthunting#deathpositive#gnomes #mushrooms #cottagecore#cats #cuteanimals#movies #popculture#traveling
    #cemeteries
    #gardening #gothgardening

  11. People: "I hope I go to heaven after I die"

    Me: "I hope the most diverse little ecosystem grows from the soil of my decomposed body - just the coolest plants, fungi, little insects, birds, animals, microbes just thriving on my remains…”

    Words: @wokescientist
    Artist: @emossillustrates

    #HisAndHearsePress #NaturalBurial #GreenBurial #HumanComposting #AlkalineHydrolysis #EcoFriendlyFuneral #DeathPositive #MortuaryScience #SustainableFuneral

  12. After a fascinating and thought-provoking day of presentations which used the prompt "Rethinking end of life doulas and..." at Douglas College in New Westminster BC, I have a weekend to grapple with my jetlag before diving into our symposium work with the International End of Life Doula Research Group. Thank you to the End of Life Doula Association of Canada and Douglas College (which has a terrific training program for EOLDs, including First Nations people and cultural needs).

    Including representatives from the four countries where EOLDs are most strongly represented (Australia -me! - Canada, UK and USA), this upcoming week will explore research options and ideas for the next year or two.

    I suspect a truckload of grant writing is in my future!

    Stay tuned for updates and have a great day. Oh Canada! 🇨🇦

    #GDEP #EOLD #IEOLDRG #DeathDoula #EndOfLifeDoula #research #collaboration #community #discussion #symposium #DeathPositive #planning #DeathLiteracy

  13. Wow, the pace keeps increasing on Mallon Model downloads, now at over 3,300. 😍

    You're welcome to join in the micro compassionate community movement and read the free article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    Avoid carer burnout, support end of life and best quality ongoing care at home in an easy, straightforward way. Online masterclasses for international time zones are available, email [email protected] for details.

    #GDEP #MallonModel #AskAnnetta #ComCom #EndOfLife #HomeBasedDying #carer #caring #support #network #masterclass #research #academia #AcademicChatter #OriginalResearch #CompassionateCommunity #EOLD #DeathDoula #DeathPositive #DisabilitySupport #care #EndCarerBurnout

  14. Wow, the pace keeps increasing on Mallon Model downloads, now at over 3,300. 😍

    You're welcome to join in the micro compassionate community movement and read the free article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    Avoid carer burnout, support end of life and best quality ongoing care at home in an easy, straightforward way. Online masterclasses for international time zones are available, email [email protected] for details.

    #GDEP #MallonModel #AskAnnetta #ComCom #EndOfLife #HomeBasedDying #carer #caring #support #network #masterclass #research #academia #AcademicChatter #OriginalResearch #CompassionateCommunity #EOLD #DeathDoula #DeathPositive #DisabilitySupport #care #EndCarerBurnout

  15. 🦇 Hey all you bat fans! It’s International Bat Appreciation Day. Besides symbolizing death and rebirth, they also do us a solid by eating the worst creatures on earth (mosquitoes) and helping other pollinators like bees and butterflies. They’re not horrible! They’re vital for maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Plus they’re goth AF, in case that’s why you’re here. 🦇

    #HisAndHearsePress #BatAppreciationDay #BatDay #Bats #BatsOfInstagram #BatFan #BatsAreCool #GothAF #DeathSymbol #DeathAndRebirth #DeathPositive

  16. 🦇 Hey all you bat fans! It’s International Bat Appreciation Day. Besides symbolizing death and rebirth, they also do us a solid by eating the worst creatures on earth (mosquitoes) and helping other pollinators like bees and butterflies. They’re not horrible! They’re vital for maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Plus they’re goth AF, in case that’s why you’re here. 🦇

    #HisAndHearsePress #BatAppreciationDay #BatDay #Bats #BatsOfInstagram #BatFan #BatsAreCool #GothAF #DeathSymbol #DeathAndRebirth #DeathPositive

  17. 🦇 Hey all you bat fans! It’s International Bat Appreciation Day. Besides symbolizing death and rebirth, they also do us a solid by eating the worst creatures on earth (mosquitoes) and helping other pollinators like bees and butterflies. They’re not horrible! They’re vital for maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Plus they’re goth AF, in case that’s why you’re here. 🦇

    #HisAndHearsePress #BatAppreciationDay #BatDay #Bats #BatsOfInstagram #BatFan #BatsAreCool #GothAF #DeathSymbol #DeathAndRebirth #DeathPositive

  18. 🦇 Hey all you bat fans! It’s International Bat Appreciation Day. Besides symbolizing death and rebirth, they also do us a solid by eating the worst creatures on earth (mosquitoes) and helping other pollinators like bees and butterflies. They’re not horrible! They’re vital for maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Plus they’re goth AF, in case that’s why you’re here. 🦇

    #HisAndHearsePress #BatAppreciationDay #BatDay #Bats #BatsOfInstagram #BatFan #BatsAreCool #GothAF #DeathSymbol #DeathAndRebirth #DeathPositive

  19. 🦇 Hey all you bat fans! It’s International Bat Appreciation Day. Besides symbolizing death and rebirth, they also do us a solid by eating the worst creatures on earth (mosquitoes) and helping other pollinators like bees and butterflies. They’re not horrible! They’re vital for maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Plus they’re goth AF, in case that’s why you’re here. 🦇

    #HisAndHearsePress #BatAppreciationDay #BatDay #Bats #BatsOfInstagram #BatFan #BatsAreCool #GothAF #DeathSymbol #DeathAndRebirth #DeathPositive

  20. “Lest we forget,
    a morgue is also a community center.”

    - Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

    (From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)

    #HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive

  21. “Lest we forget,
    a morgue is also a community center.”

    - Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

    (From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)

    #HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive

  22. “Lest we forget,
    a morgue is also a community center.”

    - Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

    (From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)

    #HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive

  23. “Lest we forget,
    a morgue is also a community center.”

    - Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

    (From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)

    #HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive

  24. “Lest we forget,
    a morgue is also a community center.”

    - Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

    (From a DVAN book review: “In his sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong meditates on how we think about death as individuals and as a community, and how we shoulder the weight of intergenerational trauma. Vuong reframes death and mourning as lonely processes into something communal.”)

    #HisAndHearsePress #OceanVuong #TimeIsAMother #DVAN #Poetry #Quote #GriefQuotes #LiteraryQuotes #Grief #Funeral #Morgue #DeathPositive

  25. #AmReading: All the Living and the Dead:

    From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

    By Hayley Campbell

    Real talk: I was hesitant when I first saw this book because I knew it had the potential to sensationalize or demonize the funeral profession. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Hayley interviewed exceptional people and portrayed them accurately. Phew!

    She didn’t shy away from the graphic nature of each person’s occupation, but she also kept it within a professional context. I appreciate her efforts to shine a light on the workers people prefer to ignore and prove that we’re compassionate and empathetic rather than a flock of vultures (fun fact: it’s actually called a “wake” of vultures).

    As a funeral director and embalmer, I highly recommend this book. Everyone ought to know a bit about what happens behind closed doors before passing a broad judgement based on stereotypes.

    FYI, this book covers the duties of workers in the USA and UK. Practices and laws vary by location. Here’s the book’s blurb:

    “A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there.

    We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?

    Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.”

    bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearse

    #HisAndHearsePress #BookRecommendations #BookRecs #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #Nonfiction #DeathPositive #Funeral #Mortician #DeathCare #DeathProfessional #HayleyCampbell

  26. #AmReading: All the Living and the Dead:

    From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

    By Hayley Campbell

    Real talk: I was hesitant when I first saw this book because I knew it had the potential to sensationalize or demonize the funeral profession. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Hayley interviewed exceptional people and portrayed them accurately. Phew!

    She didn’t shy away from the graphic nature of each person’s occupation, but she also kept it within a professional context. I appreciate her efforts to shine a light on the workers people prefer to ignore and prove that we’re compassionate and empathetic rather than a flock of vultures (fun fact: it’s actually called a “wake” of vultures).

    As a funeral director and embalmer, I highly recommend this book. Everyone ought to know a bit about what happens behind closed doors before passing a broad judgement based on stereotypes.

    FYI, this book covers the duties of workers in the USA and UK. Practices and laws vary by location. Here’s the book’s blurb:

    “A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there.

    We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?

    Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.”

    bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearse

    #HisAndHearsePress #BookRecommendations #BookRecs #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #Nonfiction #DeathPositive #Funeral #Mortician #DeathCare #DeathProfessional #HayleyCampbell

  27. #AmReading: All the Living and the Dead:

    From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

    By Hayley Campbell

    Real talk: I was hesitant when I first saw this book because I knew it had the potential to sensationalize or demonize the funeral profession. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Hayley interviewed exceptional people and portrayed them accurately. Phew!

    She didn’t shy away from the graphic nature of each person’s occupation, but she also kept it within a professional context. I appreciate her efforts to shine a light on the workers people prefer to ignore and prove that we’re compassionate and empathetic rather than a flock of vultures (fun fact: it’s actually called a “wake” of vultures).

    As a funeral director and embalmer, I highly recommend this book. Everyone ought to know a bit about what happens behind closed doors before passing a broad judgement based on stereotypes.

    FYI, this book covers the duties of workers in the USA and UK. Practices and laws vary by location. Here’s the book’s blurb:

    “A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there.

    We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?

    Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.”

    bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearse

    #HisAndHearsePress #BookRecommendations #BookRecs #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #Nonfiction #DeathPositive #Funeral #Mortician #DeathCare #DeathProfessional #HayleyCampbell

  28. #AmReading: All the Living and the Dead:

    From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

    By Hayley Campbell

    Real talk: I was hesitant when I first saw this book because I knew it had the potential to sensationalize or demonize the funeral profession. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Hayley interviewed exceptional people and portrayed them accurately. Phew!

    She didn’t shy away from the graphic nature of each person’s occupation, but she also kept it within a professional context. I appreciate her efforts to shine a light on the workers people prefer to ignore and prove that we’re compassionate and empathetic rather than a flock of vultures (fun fact: it’s actually called a “wake” of vultures).

    As a funeral director and embalmer, I highly recommend this book. Everyone ought to know a bit about what happens behind closed doors before passing a broad judgement based on stereotypes.

    FYI, this book covers the duties of workers in the USA and UK. Practices and laws vary by location. Here’s the book’s blurb:

    “A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there.

    We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?

    Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.”

    bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearse

    #HisAndHearsePress #BookRecommendations #BookRecs #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #Nonfiction #DeathPositive #Funeral #Mortician #DeathCare #DeathProfessional #HayleyCampbell

  29. #AmReading: All the Living and the Dead:

    From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

    By Hayley Campbell

    Real talk: I was hesitant when I first saw this book because I knew it had the potential to sensationalize or demonize the funeral profession. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Hayley interviewed exceptional people and portrayed them accurately. Phew!

    She didn’t shy away from the graphic nature of each person’s occupation, but she also kept it within a professional context. I appreciate her efforts to shine a light on the workers people prefer to ignore and prove that we’re compassionate and empathetic rather than a flock of vultures (fun fact: it’s actually called a “wake” of vultures).

    As a funeral director and embalmer, I highly recommend this book. Everyone ought to know a bit about what happens behind closed doors before passing a broad judgement based on stereotypes.

    FYI, this book covers the duties of workers in the USA and UK. Practices and laws vary by location. Here’s the book’s blurb:

    “A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there.

    We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?

    Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.”

    bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearse

    #HisAndHearsePress #BookRecommendations #BookRecs #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #Nonfiction #DeathPositive #Funeral #Mortician #DeathCare #DeathProfessional #HayleyCampbell

  30. Yes. Yes, you should bring pants.

    Just because a casket lid is usually closed on the foot end doesn’t mean you can’t see or that nosy people won’t poke around and look. Also, think about how embarrassing it’ll be for your loved one as they attend ghost parties with no bottoms. Shameful.

    On that note, there are no requirement about what dead people have to wear in their caskets. You want to be dressed in a suit? Fine. Pajamas? That’s okay too. Superhero costume? You do you! All we ask is that it fits reasonably well (though we can improvise with a few alterations) and that it covers anything that needs covering (autopsy incision, trauma etc). When in doubt, go for something long sleeved and high necked. Make your wishes known to your family!

    #HisAndHearsePress #Funeral #Mortuary #Casket #Coffin #PatrickStewart #Meme #GhostOutfit #MortuaryScience #DeathPositive #YouDoYou