Community Deathcare

Amen.

(Community deathcare = love of life)

A wheeled trolley with a canvas covering to hide the dead body.

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.

Maternal Grief-Writing as Transformative Practice An essay

Maternal Grief-Writing as Transformative Practice open.substack.com/pub/emilytam...

Fancy hearse with pleated skirt on driver's seat, elaborate urns and gallery on top, navette windows.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Hearse--Elaborate Pattern, S.D. Kimbark's Catalog, 1876.

Riding the Roller Coaster Workshop: — What A Shrink Thinks or grown-ups who have feelings

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

Yes, this is community deathcare.

It's a big tent.

Photo of National Burial Association headquarters and video being made on shrouding, with items laid out on kitchen table.

Deathcare doings.

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

Community deathcare = MacGyver

Ditto.

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.

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

Text exchange about tea is something that doesn't fix things, but it let's us know we're safe. Some comforts aren't cures, they're just proof you're allowed to feel better

We'll put the kettle on.

This us.

Hear, hear!

Lords urged to scrutinise but not block assisted dying law MPs in the Commons backed the Terminally Ill Adults Bill by a majority of 23 in June this year.

Lords urged to scrutinise but not block assisted dying law "We must do our job in this House, and our job is not to frustrate, it is to scrutinise," @BBCNews www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0d1vg0e2o

Highly recommend!
And coming together in community is in and of itself soothing to our ragged hearts.

What do you think, #Bluesky?

Is assisted death something that should be available only to the dying, or is it a human right?

ASDS logo and text: Death Studies Early Career Mentoring: Mentors needed After a successful pilot scheme during the 2024-2025 academic year, we are pleased to be accepting applications for a new round of the ASDS Early Career Mentoring Scheme. “I found having my mentor to be so compassionate and helpful. He really understood my struggles and anxiety and made me feel heard.” (2024 mentee) We warmly invite applications from prospective mentees and especially prospective mentors. Deadline extended to 22 Sept: deathandsociety.org/mentoring

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

Making sense of sudden mass deaths Sudden, brutal death; and so many deaths, at one time. What does it do to you to be one of the bereaved in such a traumatic event such as the 9/11 attacks or a pandemic like Covid-19?

September 11th - for some, this day brings up questions about how do we make sense of the loss from sudden events. This article gives some insights and reflects on several examples www.open.edu/openlearn/he... #ThanatologyThursday

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.

World Suicide Prevention Day September 10th with a yellow ribbon.

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.

Oliver Russell

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/...

Image of sign: Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided. Someone has added: Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas' rarely seen rough draft.

This will be a great conversation- consider joining!

We still do this! Funeral homes offer all sorts of "personalized" tchotchkes for the casket.

Let's get really real.

One in five inpatients left to wait in hospital corridors in England, CQC finds Survey of adults who stayed in hospital in November 2024 also finds 10% waited more than 24 hours to be admitted

Nothing makes me feel more ashamed at work than the plight of patients stranded in corridors, nooks, crannies & dark corners of wards with neither call bells nor oxygen - because we simply do not have sufficient NHS hospital beds.

It's utterly, absolutely wrong.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Community deathcare is intrinsically concerned with climate change.

However long the day, evening will come.

We are staunchly opposed to this kind of death.

This was definitely not on our bingo card.