Demystifying Death Week

If you’d like some support or guidance organising your event, check out these guides:

• Designing your event
• Facilitation skills
• Event Ideas: templates and activities
• Hosting an online event: hints and tips

These are all available here: DD Week Guides for Event Organisers

Powers, Puzzles and Prescience is an Escape Room devised by Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief.

Undertaken by teams of 3-5 people, participants are challenged to unravel a super-hero themed mystery by finding clues and solving puzzles.

Along the way teams will encounter family dynamics, future care planning, caring responsibilities and aging in the 21^st century.

If you’re in Scotland, Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief can send you everything you need to run Powers, Puzzles and Prescience, free of charge. Alternatively, there is a website where you can download and print all the necessary resources.

Find out more here: Escape Room | Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief

These ready-made event templates bring together films, resources and discussion topics on three different themes:

What happens when someone is dying?

Planning ahead

Caring 

We‘ve also provided some sample activities you might use to help create a safe and supportive environment. Check out the event templates here: Event templates for f2f

It Takes a Village is a powerful and challenging series of portraits and personal stories exploring the idea that as people’s health deteriorates, care and support comes in many guises.

We have a limited number of copies of the exhibition available to lend out - if you would like to provide a venue to host the exhibition, please get in touch.

Perhaps you want to hold an event that helps people to plan ahead for illness, ageing or dying?  If so, the resources below could be helpful:

• A small origami game encouraging people to ‘plan your own future’, including prompts and information relating to legal, medical, practical and personal aspects of advance care planning.
• A conversation menu to prompt discussion around death, dying and bereavement
• Let’s Talk About Death and Dying by Age UK is designed to help people start conversations about death and dying and feel empowered to discuss things that are important to them.
• Information about holding a book club, alongside a list of books on the theme of death, dying and loss is available here: book club.
• A death cafe is when “people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death”. More information about Death Cafes and how to organise them is available on the Death Cafe website.

Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash

If you’re planning a discussion or educational event, short films can be useful discussion prompts or educational tools.

We’ve pulled together collection of short films on the subjects of illness, death and bereavement from various sources.

Check them out here:  Films relating to death, dying, loss and care

Photo by Thomas William on Unsplash

If you’re planning an event, why not order some of our information leaflets to give out to participants?  They’re available free of charge.

We have ten different leaflets that provide information relating to death, dying and bereavement. Hard copies can be ordered, or you can download the leaflets directly from our website.

A full list and further information is available here: Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief Information leaflets.

We’ve produced some posters, free to download, that you can use to promote your Demystifying Death Week event.  Simply print off these posters and add details of your event’s title, location, time, date and other details.  You can download the blank posters here: Poster template 

If you’re planning an event, please get in touch - we can add your listing on to our website, and promote it through our social media and newsletter.

Your support promoting Demystifying Death week through your networks and media channels can make a big difference.

Each year we produce a Communications Pack with key messages, social media ideas, shareable images and a template press release.

We’ll publish the 2026 Communications Pack in April - watch this space.