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Want to know more about Death Cafes and how to hold one? Join leading Death Cafe hosts Gail Rubin, Amy Cunningham, Nancy Gershman and Harvey Newman on Wednesday, August 31 at noon ET/11:00 a.m. CT/10:00 a.m. MT/9:00 a.m. PT for an online discussion, The Roundtable Death Cafe. The Completed Life

How can we start planning for our 100% mortality rate? Death educator Gail Rubin, Certified Thanatologist, starts those conversations with a weekly podcast titled The Doyenne of Death®. The series tackles end-of-life issues with a light touch on a dark subject.A Doyenne is a woman considered senior in a group

How can we start planning for our 100% mortality rate? Death educator Gail Rubin, Certified Thanatologist, starts those conversations with a weekly podcast titled The Doyenne of Death®. The series tackles end-of-life issues with a light touch on a dark subject.A Doyenne is a woman considered senior in a group

Ten Questions on Whether to Downsize Your Possessions From: Downsizing: What to Keep, What to Let Go? In downsizing while preparing for an estate sale at my parents’ Albuquerque home, I came across a printout of an email. It listed 10 questions to evaluate whether to keep something before moving. My Dad had printed this list in 2007...

  Can grief be a good thing? Recently, I participated in the Toastmasters International Speech Competition. The title of my speech: “Good Grief!” With all of the losses we all have incurred during the pandemic, we may not recognize we are grieving – a lot. Using Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ model of the Five Stages of Grief, I talk about how to recognize grief. The key is that we need to allow ourselves to feel w...