Here we are with our brand new #azofdeath! A is for #Autopsy – going back to around 300BC Herophilus of Chalcedon was performing autopsies but it wasn’t until 44BC when Julius Caesar died of 23 stab wounds that the first official autopsy was recorded, performed by Antistius. There was a bit of a rocky time when it was illegal to conduct an autopsy but that soon passed and by the Middle Ages criminal’s bodies were being autopsied on a regular basis. Victorian times…
We would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to the Midcounties Co-operative Community Fund for the wonderful support they have given to CEDAR Education Life Lessons Programme. This funding has allowed us to develop a death education programme for one of our local Shropshire schools and assist our volunteer staff in getting additional training for our programmes. We were also able to use the funds to deliver our research on death education in secondary schools to the 14th International…
CEDAR volunteer Marion Dakin writes about the cuts in funding to the Severn Hospice. Her partner Bruce Jackson died aged 64, from long-term cancer of the oesophagus. Bruce had been on palliative care, during which time he twice chose to use the beds at Severn Hospice in Telford.However, the charity has just been told that there is a cut of £250,000 in this years funding, leading to the loss of 2 hospice beds. Marion is concerned that more people will…
We are very pleased to announce that we’ve signed up to the Social Value in Shropshire Charter. organisations who sign up to the Charter are committing to: Supporting the Shropshire economy Promoting wellbeing in Shropshire Make Shropshire a great place to live As anyone who has been to our courses can testify, we at CEDAR Education CIC do our very best to uphold these values as they are so important to enhanced quality of life. Shropshire is a beautiful county…
We hope you like our new look, which was created by the wonderful team at KENSA-Creative, based in Telford. They worked very hard to help us bring you the latest news, blogs, book reviews, and of course our wonderful workshops and training events in a way that will make it easier for you to access all parts of the website, register for a workshop, buy a book, and enjoy our ‘Thinking Differently’ blog posts. Sud has…
I’m a freelance writer, and met Judith Wester when we both attended a seminar on business development. We got talking, and she invited me to her class: Talking about Death & Loss in Healthy Ways – the first of its kind to be held in Wolverhampton. Since death is something that affects us all, I thought it would be useful to brush up my knowledge of how it is seen in different cultures. After all, my clients come from all…
by Francis Weller – This book was a real game changer for me I read a lot—anything I could get my hands on—in the aftermath of the death of my son, Tom. But, it was four years later a very dear friend handed me this book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow, by Francis Weller. It opened my heart to the true meaning and relevance of grief as a thing of beauty for all people within our culture and the world.…
Author Kevin Toolis on the Irish way of death – “They were cradling this man into death”. An uplifting and thought-proving video on the meaning and support that community can brin https://www.facebook.com/bbc/videos/2224550397560147/UzpfSTU0NDM5NDIxMjMzMzA3MjoxNDA0NTI2Nzg2MzE5ODA2/
Dr. Kathryn Mannix explains why we should all talk about dying. https://www.facebook.com/bbc/videos/2185162658165588/
This is a Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok de Wit. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2001. A father says goodbye to his young daughter. Time passes and the daughter moves through life age by age, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
Focus Group – Death Education in Schools