Let’s have dinner and talk about death – making a place at the table
House at the Edge of the Woods, Clanfield , United Kingdom"Good conversations can change a lot of things." Stephen Jenkinson - How It All Could Be The House at the Edge is warmly inviting you to gather around the table to share food, stories and conversation about dying and being alongside people you love in their dying time. Thursday, fourth of December at 7 pm. 8 places are available in Clanfield, Hampshire, UK. The address will be given once your booking is confirmed. This event of offered in service and there is no money to pay. Ten years ago, as my husband wrestled with terminal cancer, I was thrust unprepared into the realities of what it is to die in a death-phobic culture. Since then I have walked alongside many people and their loved ones as they face unwelcome diagnoses and the endings of the lives they had in mind. This invitation comes with the recognition that these conversations can be tender and useful, gritty and beautiful. There are learnings to be shared and things to wonder aloud about and perhaps some examples of what it might look like to live and die well will appear among us. "This kind of conversation is rare in our daily comings and goings […]

