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.
Golden Charter Good Death Week Reception
Wed 15 May 2019, 6pm
McDonald Holyrood Hotel, Edinburgh
Golden Charter are holding a special reception at the McDonald Holyrood Hotel to mark Good Death Week 2019. All Good Life, Good Death, Good Week members are invited to attend.
The aim is to bring together leading thinkers from policy networks, parliament and the third sector to reflect on the changing societal culture around death and dying, to share ideas, and to listen to each other.
At the event, after a welcome from Richard Lyle MSP, Convener of the Cross Party Group on Bereavement, there will be the opportunity to network over drinks and canapés. There will also be short talks from Good Life Good Death Good Grief’s Robert Peacock, on the purpose of Good Death Week, and from Golden Charter CEO Suzanne Grahame, on the role of funeral directors in promoting a good death. There will also be another chance to see excerpts from our short film, 20 Takes on Death and Dying.
Guided History Walk in Camelon Cemetery
Tue 14 May 2019, 6.30pm - 8pm
Meet at Falkirk Crematorium Car Park, FK2 7YJ
FREE
Starting at the Crematorium the walk will explain the inception and growth of the burial ground from the 1870s and its careful formal planning. One surprise might be the use of Roman hypocaust columns from the Antonine Wall at Rough Castle. The magnificent monuments take many forms – such as a broken column – denoting a life ended early. There are also many famous people from Falkirk’s amazing history to visit - including Robert Barr of Irn Bru fame, Walter Alexander of bus fame, Falkirk’s most renowned poet, heroes of the two world wars, and many more.
Perth Death Cafe
Tue 15 May 2019, 6pm - 8pm
Blend Coffee Lounge, PH1 5QJ
FREE
All welcome to drink tea, eat cake and talk about death. No set agenda, participants choose what they want to talk about.
Willowbrae Death Cafe
Wed 15 May 2019, 6pm - 9pm
Barrelhouse Bar & Grill, Edinburgh, EH8 7AA
FREE
At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea/coffee and discuss death. It is a relaxed, group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.
This Death Cafe, run by Willowbrae Free The Change, hopes to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people to make the most of our (finite) lives. It aims to provide a respectful space, with no intention of leading people to any conclusion, product or course of action.
All are welcome, and a limited number of teas/coffees/soft drinks and snacks will be available free.
There will be a big sign on the table. Just come over and say hello and you'll be made welcome.
Further drinks/food can be ordered and paid for at the bar.
Wills I Have Known
Wed 15 May 2019, 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Falkirk Crematorium Chapel, FK2 7YJ
FREE
We all need to make a will. Chris Sheldon, Solicitor and member of the Trust and Succession Law Committee, Law Society of Scotland, will give a humorous talk on his experience of working in this sensitive and sometimes surprising area of the law.
Doors are at 7pm for free tea, coffee and biscuits.
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