Awareness Week

Do you use Facebook or Twitter? If so, please get involved during Awareness Week, when we will be using social media to entice people to learn more about death, dying and bereavement. ‘How long does a body take to decompose once buried?’ ‘How do doctors choose to die?’ ‘How do you talk to children about death?’ These are some of the questions we’ll be answering. We’ll also be encouraging people to share their hopes on an online Before I Die wall. If you can help to share these messages more widely, please join us on Facebook and Twitter.

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Before I Die walls are a positive and life-affirming way to encourage people to reflect on what is important in their lives. In Scotland, we want to partner this with some practical knowledge, information and strategies relating to death, dying and bereavement. We have developed a quirky but factual resource to be displayed alongside Before I Die walls. Consisting of two laminated A4 sheets, printed white on black in imitation of a blackboard, our ‘death trivia’ resource provides some interesting and relevant facts about death, dying and bereavement, and encourages people to contribute to an online Before I Die wall. Please get in touch if you would like to receive a copy of the Death Trivia resource.

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We are developing a press pack for members to help people to get local publicity for their Awareness Week activities. This will comprise a template press release, ideas for photos, and some guidance on how to approach the press. We expect to be emailing the pack to interested members next week – please get in touch if you would like to receive a copy.

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Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief members across Scotland have been organising awareness week events with fantastic energy and enthusiasm, and usually very little time or money! From interested individuals to established organisations, all over Scotland people have been taking action to promote more openness about death, dying and bereavement. We expect to see Before I Die walls popping up across the country, and will publish a list on our website next week. Other activities include shopping centre events, workshops, drop-in sessions, a death café, a film screening and a theatre performance. A list of events is available on the Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief website. We would love to be able to list all relevant events on our website, so please get in touch if you're planning something.

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25 May 2013, Nairn Little Theatre, Nairn

12 November 2013, The Arches, Glasgow

Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief is pleased to be supporting the Grief Series to bring the play Etiquette of Grief to Scotland this May.

"Etiquette of Grief is a playful and provocative solo show by performer Ellie Harrison, who takes audiences on an irreverent journey and suggests a guide for dealing with both private and public grief in all its gory and glorious manifestations.

In a piece which is both heart-wrenching and heart-warming, Ellie explores the wide-ranging emotions that follow an overwhelming loss and the ways in which grief touches us all, in a distinctive, interactive and powerful performance that includes her on screen alter-ego, in a celebration of our freedom of expression."

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