I am absolutely attending the FTC Funeral Rule Workshop online for no good reason other than morbid curiosity (ba-dum-tish!) and you can, too! (Also, it is free!)

https://kvgo.com/ftc/funeral-rule-workshop-september-7-2023

#GoodDeath

😂

#DeathPositivity #DeathPositive #GoodDeath

Superexcite because my cousin just texted me for details about human composting!!!

⬆️ That is not sarcasm. I'm a weird "so, what happens after you die?" goblin. 😅

#GoodDeath #DeathPositive #NaturalOrganicReduction #HumanComposting #Terramation™️

What does a ‘good death’ mean for a church?
We might possibly engage in a discussion about what is a good death for an individual, but a church?

In Paula Gooder's book called 'Heaven', she explains that in the Hebrew tradition a good death is about 'living and living well'. Looking at Job 5:26 and Ecclesiastes 3:2 she discerns three major elements:
https://dbobstoner.com/what-does-a-good-death-mean-for-a-church/
#DeathCaf #LiquidChurch #Church #GoodDeath #Methodist #Reconciliation

May her sunflowers be a blessing.
🌻 ❤️

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/human-composting-turn-body-into-soil/75-225f82c8-7251-4882-9e78-2f323632e390

(Full disclosure, I am a #Precompose member. Feel free to ask me questions.)

#GoodDeath #Recompose

I swear by all that's good and true in this Universe, should I ever win a stupid-big lottery jackpot, I am going to start GRIEF, INC.

It's basically going to be a sliding-scale (but 100% free to anyone making less than $100k/yr), one-stop "Oh fuck my loved one died and I need help" shop.

#GoodDeath

Holy crap, thank you to the string of people who boosted this until it appeared in my timeline. I'm literally in the middle of writing a big GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER EARLY BECAUSE IT SUCKS FOR EVERYONE ELSE WHEN YOU DIE and this is the perfect coda to that. Please, everyone, go download a copy. It's free. You have literally no excuses. Go. Now. GO. GO!!!!

https://mastodon.social/@elysdir/109858795532468420

#GoodDeath #FinalShit #Funeral

Caitlin Doughty roasts Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck in the most polite and comprehensive fashion. #goodDeath

Also, in an appropriately hilarious fashion at times.

https://youtu.be/KNrcE-yXqSI

#GoodDeath #DyingWell #Mortality 
Source: https://bit.ly/3YJzldu

#GoodDeath #DyingWell #Mortality 
Source: https://bit.ly/3YJzldu

#GoodDeath #DyingWell #Mortality
Source: bit.ly/PlaceForEveryone

In the before times, I spent 1500+ hours in 4 ICUs trying to understand inequality at the end of life.

Then a pandemic started, I wrote a dissertation, got really depressed, got better (mostly), and got a new job in a PCCM division.

With so much help, this is some of that work:

Whose #GoodDeath? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of #Inequality in Hospitals

https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465221143088

#EndOfLife #RacialInequality #SocioeconomicStatus #sociology #CriticalCare #MedMastodon

#new article by @hauschildt

Whose #GoodDeath? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of #Inequality in Hospitals

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465221143088

Although most clinicians have come to perceive invasive life-sustaining treatments as overly aggressive at the end of life, some of the public and greater proportions of some socially disadvantaged groups have not. Drawing on 1,500+ hours of observation in [4 ICUs] and 69 interviews…

@sociology #EOL

#new article by @hauschildt

Whose #GoodDeath? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of #Inequality in Hospitals

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465221143088

Although most clinicians have come to perceive invasive life-sustaining treatments as overly aggressive at the end of life, some of the public and greater proportions of some socially disadvantaged groups have not. Drawing on 1,500+ hours of observation in [4 ICUs] and 69 interviews…

@sociology #EOL

https://twitter.com/ShoshUMD/status/1593384367115468800?t=ZqbJIPWC36eXBlwpQgE1EA&s=09
#GoodDeath

Beautiful article about a #Dundee man who writes #Eulogy poetry for those who die alone https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63598433 #death #gooddeath

Latest blog on Words, Poems and the Eulogy https://dbobstoner.com/word-poems-and-eulogy/ How might we better prepare for that inevitable day? #death #deathcafe #gooddeath