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Birth to Earth, Womb to Tomb: Write Your Own Obituary

When:
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 3:00 PM until 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00)
Videoconference information will be provided in an email once registration is complete.
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Nadia Mercer
Category:
Age Well
Registration is required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
No Fee

Write Your Own Obituary

Who would you trust to speak a true word about the life you have lived? “A little life well-lived is worth talking about,” wrote Jim Nicholson, long-time obituary writer for the Philadelphia Daily News. In today’s era of online news, most obituaries are written by family members after a death, posted by mortuary services, and shared on social media. This workshop will help participants begin to write their own.

Bio: Author and hospice chaplain Christina Kukuk started writing obituaries for her small-town local newspaper as a teenager at her after-school and summer job. She went on to earn both journalism and divinity degrees, publishing essays and preaching eulogies in Ohio, Minnesota, and now Oregon. Her book Loving What Doesn’t Last: An Adoration of the Body, published with Morehouse Publishing Co.
in 2021.

Resources of Interest:
Obit: Poems, by Victoria Chang
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, by Marilyn Johnson
National Public Radio’s 1987 Fresh Air interview of Jim Nicholson