Good Death Week Events
Events are taking place across Scotland for Good Death Week, 13 - 19 May. These are the ones we know about. If you know of others or you're organising something yourself, let us know and we can promote it.
Good Death Week is all about creating opportunities for people to think, talk and plan ahead for death, dying and bereavement.
Dumfries & Galloway Drop-In Sessions
Mon 13 May 2019, 12.15pm - 2.15pm
Tue 14 May 2019, 11.45am - 12.45pm
Wed 15 May 2019, 9.45am - 10.45am
Thu 16 May 2019, 3.15pm - 4.45pm
Fri 17 May 2019, 11.15am - 12.45pm
Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, Cargenbridge
FREE
The Dumfries and Galloway palliative care team, Alexandra Unit staff and colleagues are running daily drop in sessions in Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.
This is a chance for an informal chat and a cup of tea or coffee to talk about all things related to death, dying, bereavement and Anticipatory Care Planning.
Staff and public are welcome.
Staff screening of Island
Mon 13 May 2019, 5.30pm
Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, Cargenbridge
STAFF ONLY
Staff at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary will get a chance to see the moving documentary film Island which observes the last weeks, days and hours of life of four individuals on the Isle of Wight.
Discussion after the screening will be facilitated by Dr Sarah Pickstock. Dr Sheri Mila Gerson and Julie Lang, members of the University of Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, will also be in attendance at the screening, and involved in the discussions afterwards.
Dead Good Edinburgh screening
Mon 13 May 2019, 7pm
Edinburgh Film Guild at the Filmhouse, EH3 9BZ
£6
Cinetopia Edinburgh will be showing the new documentary Dead Good from Brighton filmmaker, Rehana Rose.
It is an intimate portrait of those dealing with their dead in modern Britain, supported by a team of women who are ‘giving death back to the people’ and enabling participation during the ritual of care.
The filmmaker, Rehana Rose will be present for a post-screening Q&A. Rose has made several independent short films before embarking on Dead Good, her first feature documentary.
An Insight Into The Death Certification Review Service
Mon 13 May, 7.30pm - 9pm
Falkirk Crematorium Chapel, FK2 7YJ
FREE
Doors are at 7pm for free tea, coffee and biscuits
Historic Graveyards of the Falkirk District
Mon 13 May, 7.30pm - 9pm
Falkirk Crematorium Chapel, FK2 7YJ
FREE
Join Geoff Bailey of Falkirk Community Trust for a lively presentation exploring the fascinating history and iconography behind the early churchyards of the Falkirk area. The graveyards are replete with wonderful works art by famous sculptors as well as naive representations of mortality and early trades. Famous people have appropriate symbols and Admiral Hope even has an anchor chain atop his surrounding cope. The burial grounds were carefully controlled and disputes regulated with only the odd riot!
(Picture shows the Adam & Eve stone in Polmont Churchyard)
Doors are at 7pm for free tea, coffee and biscuits
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