Demystifying Death Week 2024
Taking place across Scotland from 6-12 May, Demystifying Death Week is about shining a light on death, dying and bereavement in Scotland. We are encouraging people to get involved by holding in-person and online events that bring death, dying and bereavement into the limelight.
Below is a list of events registered so far - these pages will be updated over the coming weeks. If you are organising an event that you'd like us to feature, please get in touch.
Organised by St Columba's Hospice Care
Organised by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.Paying for a Funeral - Myth Busters
Organised by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.
Having Conversations That Matter
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Organised by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.
"It Takes a Village" exhibition - Royal Victoria Hospital Dundee
In collaboration with Medicine For the Elderly & Stroke, Roxburghe House, and the Royal Victoria Hospital Dundee
Organised by "Much Ado About Dying" Screening - Screen Argyll, Eigg
In partnership with Cosmic Cat Films, Good Death, Good Grief, and Screen Argyll
Organised by Serene Funeral PlanningNew Death Cafe at Space to Be
Organised by St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
What We Leave Behind
Organised by St Columba's Hospice Compassionate Neighbours
“What about direct cremation?” An online discussion
Organised by members of the team at the University of Aberdeen who developed the Care in Funerals Casebook
Organised by Dochas Carers CentreDemystifying Death: Coffee & Chat
Organised by two members of End of Life Doulas UK
Seed Paper Workshop
Organised by North Berwick Coastal Community Connections
Deathcare in the Queer Community
Organised by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.
Organised by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. "Much Ado About Dying" screening - Ayr Town Hall
In partnership with Cosmic Cat Films, Ayr Film Society, NODA Ayrshire and Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief
Online Session - Grief Tending in Community
Organised by Douglas Guest, Maeve Butler and Robin Botley of Grief Tending in Scotland
Author Event with Elizabeth Reeder and Gillian Shirreffs
Organised by Glasgow Libraries
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