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.
NODA Ayrshire Coffee Morning
Sat 18 May 2019, 2pm - 4pm
HC-One Care Home, Fullarton, Irvine
Coffee morning organised by No-one Dies Alone Ayrshire. £1 for a cake and a cuppa. Great raffle and tombola and there may even be some acoustic entertainment!Silver Threads information day
Sat 18 May 2019, 10am - 2pm
Silver Threads, High Street, Burntisland
An event to openly chat about death, dying, funerals, DNR and organ donation with local celebrants Silver Threads. People can come along and discuss their funeral wishes. They will then receive a parchment paper copy to take away with them and file. There will also be refreshments and a raffle on the day
Riverside Care Home Good Death Week Cafe
Sun 19 May 2019, 2pm
Riverside Care Home, Glasgow
PRIVATE EVENT
A cafe and information-sharing event, supported by NHS staff, aimed at opening up conversations about death and dying.
Southside Book Group
Tue 21 May 2019, 7pm - 8.30pm
Milk Cafe, Glasgow, G42 8YU
FREE
Join the new Southside book group exploring death and loss. Their first book will be Dr Kathryn Mannix's With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial at the Milk Cafe.
WISHES Women's Group Recording Memories Sessions
Thursdays in May
Southside Community Centre, Edinburgh, EH8 9ER
PRIVATE EVENT
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Women in Self Help & Empowerment (WISHES) group will be holding "recording memories" sessions to encourage women with emotional difficulties to write stories or create scrapbooks based on their life to leave to relatives after they have died, including pictures of their favourite things.
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