Good Death Week Events
These are the events that took place for Good Death Week 2018, 14 - 20 May. If you're hoping to plan an event for this year's Good Death Week you can also take a look at our resources page.
Interrobang: Live & Let Die?!
14 May 2018, 7pm
Summerhall, Edinburgh
£5 / £4
Edinburgh based storytelling, poetry and live music night Interrobang?! marks Good Death Week with some of the hottest spoken word artists on the circuit.
Host Ricky Monahan Brown is joined by Stuart Kenny, and Rachel Rankin the brilliant Clare Whittaker (aka Jay Whitaker), who brings brilliant awareness of the issues surrounding Good Death Week to her poetry.
It Takes A Village Exhibition
14 - 18 May 2018
Around Scotland
Free
An exhibition by the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care and Colin Gray.
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care has worked with award-winning Glasgow based artist photographer, Colin Gray, to produce this powerful and challenging series of portraits and personal stories. It Takes a Village explores the idea that as people’s health deteriorates, care and support comes in many guises.
The exhibition can be seen at the following venues:
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert
Margaret Kerr Unit, Borders General Hospital, Melrose
It can also be viewed online here.
Glentanar Court Social Group
15 May
Glentanar Court, Paisley
Private Event
Residents at Glentanar Court retirement complex will be having a "Let’s Talk About Death" lunch, which tenants, family and friends are invited to attend, along with the local carers team and a local funeral director. There will be poetry readings, a conversation menu to get the chat started and a "Bucket List" board for people to record their wishes.
Dead Social Event
15 May, 2pm - 5pm
Lochee Hub, High St, Dundee
Free
Dundee Health & Social Care Partnership and Dundee Voluntary Action invite you to join them for tea and cake and a chat about planning for the end of life.
Discuss funeral support, power of attorney, guardianship, anticipatory care planning, complimentary therapies, making a will, benefits, community support, legal advice, bereavement support, information for carers and their families, concerns about end of life care, treatment options and choosing where to die.
Co-Op Funerals Open Day
16 May, 10am - 4pm
Wm. Gilchrist Funeralcare, 44-46 Rose Street,
Aberdeen
Free
Co-Op Funerals in Aberdeen are having an open day at their Rose Street branch to encourage people to be open and speak about their “end of life” planning.
Some of the Co-Op's arrangers available to discuss anything and everything with anyone who attends. This will be informal and the kettle will be on.
They will also be giving out a voucher on the day with £135 off our funeral plans should some wish to take a plan.
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