Join host David Faigman and Dr. John Luce and Dr. Laura Petrillo of the University of California at San Francisco to discuss the facts, legal ramifications, and ethical concerns surrounding physician aid in dying. Learn how medical professionals can facilitate a peaceful and personally meaningful dying process, and share your insights on this important topic.
Continue readingAll are invited to bring an Ancestor photo or item for our altar, to join us in a ritual and spiral dance honoring our beloved dead, and in hearing the wisdom of the underworld gods and goddesses that will be joining us.
Continue readingWe will take a full day to help each other remember our ancestors and our personal and collective losses. This will be a day of mourning and remembrance, but also of great beauty and celebration. There will be poetry, storytelling, drumming, altar-building and chanting from African, Celtic, Mexican and other traditions.”
Continue readingWe are a global sisterhood that connects women through circles. We create a safe place to share our true selves. Meeting in circle, we find our voices, claim our power, and celebrate our self-worth, leading to personal and planetary transformation. Our Fall Circle will Explore Death and Dying.
Continue readingIn the spirit of the eighteenth-century salon – informal gatherings of intellectuals – Death Salon encourages conversations on mortality and mourning and their resonating effects on our culture and history.
Continue readingWhat if our last act could be a gift to the planet? Musician, psychiatrist, and folk dancer Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial in this immersive documentary. While battling lymphoma, Clark has discovered a burgeoning movement that uses burial to conserve and restore natural areas, forgoing contemporary funeral practices that operate at the ecosystem’s expense.
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