Entries by Jean

Football in Heaven –

Two 90 year old men, Mike and Joe, have been friends all of their lives. When it’s clear that Joe is dying, Mike visits him every day. One day Mike says, “Joe, we both loved football all our lives, and we played football on Saturdays together for so many years. Please do me one favour, […]

A Date for Your Diary

Drop in for an evening of life, death, cake and contemplation Date: August 28th 2014 then every last Thursday of each month Time: Please arrive no later than 5.45 for 6.00 pm. – 8pm. Venue: Pretty Things, 4 Park Place, Horsham, RH12 1DG We ask that you choose from the delicious selection of cakes, teas […]

Living and Dying Workshop in Dorset Nov 2014

Having recently taken part in this workshop I can thoroughly recommend it, the next one takes place in Dorset in November 2014. Having lived with the experience for a week I felt drawn to write the following: ‘Having well and truly faced my own mortality it feels like I have been given a second chance. Each […]

Quotes

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make who would you call and what would you say?   And why are you waiting ? Steven Levine He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. H.H. Munroe I have never killed a man but I […]

The Ideal Death Show –

find meaning in mortality 5-7 September – Bournville, UK Nominations are now open The nominations are now open for the Good Funeral Awards 2014. Please go http://goodfuneralawards.co.uk/nominate/ and tell us about the outstanding characters you’ve worked with in the past year.   Ideal Death Show As well as the Good Funeral Awards gala dinner, we’re putting on […]

A Man and His Dog

A man and his dog were walking along a road. As the man was enjoying the scenery, it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and then he realized that his dog had been dead for years. Where was this road leading them? After walking a while, they came to a […]

A Grave Story

A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads “Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827”. Then he realizes that the […]

Living Well Dying Well

Events Spring 2014 Who am I in the face of death and dying? May 10th 2014 from 10 – 4.30 – Barcombe, E. Sussex An experiential one-day workshop for counsellors and professionals in palliative care working at the deep end of death and dying, exploring what happens to us when we work with the grief […]