Tag: Bereavement

• Playing with death – how the ‘Goodbye-box’ helps children grieve

  

  Rosalie Kuyvenhoven runs Rituals Today, creating meaningful and relevant ceremonies. Her blog is full of innovation and ideas, here she shares Bonnie Jansen’s DAG Box: inspired by a non-directive approach to play therapy, in which children take the lead.

  Death and the Maiden

  20/05/2018

  Guest Post

  Bereavement, Bonnie Jansen, Children, Cremation, DAG Box, Funeral, Goodbye Box, Grief, Healing, Mourning, Play, Ritual, Rituals Today, Rosalie Kuyvenhoven

• The Grief Geek

  

  Not only does Caroline Lloyd refers to Death and the Maiden as glamorous and cool (thank you Caroline!) she shares her personal and professional journey of grief. Experiences that became the motivation behind her new book: Grief Demystified. The book she wrote that she so desperately wanted when she had disenfranchised grief and had no…

  Death and the Maiden

  02/01/2018

  Guest Post

  Author, Bereavement, Book, Caroline Lloyd, Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Empowerment, Experiences, Grief, Grief Demystified, Loss, Mourning, Personal Experiences, The Grief Geek, Writing

• A Better Understanding of Death

  Last Thursday Death & the Maiden’s Lucy Talbot attended the Good Funeral Awards, as we had been nominated for the “Most Significant Contribution to the Understanding of Death” award 2016. Here Sarah and Lucy (the Maidens) reflect on the values at the core of their mission and introduce to you the other nominees in the…

  Death and the Maiden

  12/09/2016

  Maiden Post

  Acknowledgement, Art, Bereavement, Celebtration, Challenges, Change, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Education, Experiences, Funeral, Grief, Major Contribution To The Understanding Of Death, New Approaches, Nominations, Recognition, The Good Funeral Awards

• Silent Sisters: Caring for the dead in gendered religious space

  Nuri McBride is a Metaheret, which means washing and ritually preparing the dead in the Jewish traditions, as well as assisting in funeral preparation and bereavement. As a member of  a Chevras you provide kosher body preparation, funeral services, bereavement support, and palliative care, free of charge as a community service. With women outnumbering men in Chevras…

  Death and the Maiden

  18/07/2016

  Nuri McBride

  Bereavement, Body Preparation, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Chevra, Chevra Kadisha, Community, Deadmaidens, Death, Funeral Services, Gender Roles, Grief, History, Jewish, Jewish Burial Society, Jewish Culture, Kosher Burial, Loss, Metaheret, Mikva, Support

• Fears, Hopes & Dreams

  Grief and loss are a natural part of life, but we can never estimate the impact it will have on our day to day lives, it walks with us every day. When people truly disrupt our lives in both positive and negative ways they are never forgotten, they grow with us and shape us. I…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/07/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Ballet, Beauty, Bereavement, Change, Creation, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Design, Emotion, Fabric, Grief, Loss, Love, Memories, Pain, Print Design, Reflection, Remembrance, Textiles

• Transformative Powers through Making

  How exactly did Yuli Somme go from making colourful hand-made felt tea cosies, felted seamless jackets and hats, and the occasional wall hanging to soft coffins? In this beautiful account of how creative direction can change rather unexpectedly we learn that the physical act of creation can release emotion, that from sorrow something truly life affirming can…

  Death and the Maiden

  15/05/2015

  Guest Post

  17th Century, Beauty, Bereavement, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Ceremonies, Change, Coffins, Craft, Creation, Creativity, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Design, Experiences, Family, Felt, Funeral, Grief, History, Natural, Nature, Processes, Textiles, Transformation, Women, Wool

• Lost Souls

  This week features one of Death & the Maiden’s favourite shops. Samantha Lyn owner of Funereal Ephemera collects postmortem photographs, memorial cards, funeral photographs and cemetery photographs. They’re forgotten, only to be revealed generations later, to modern eyes with a modern sense of death and mourning. A piece of history lost and found again. Samantha sees those…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/05/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Beauty, Bereavement, Deadmaidens, Death, Family, Funeral, History, Memorial Cards, Mourning, Photography, Postmortem, Remembrance, Respect, Victorian

• The East End funeral

  “No Cockney ritual is more distinctive—or so redolent with elegy, loss and change, themes of a dying culture.” (Economist)

  Death and the Maiden

  30/03/2015

  Guest Post

  Artist, Bereavement, Change, Cockney, Culture, Deadmaidens, Debate, East End, Experiences, Funeral, Funeral Selfies, Future, Hearse, History, Loss, Moment, Photography, Private, Public, Ritual, Social Media, Tradition

• Bereavement cards just got personal

  Inspired Goodbyes was created by Sophia Lucop-Leech and Helen Lawson. After experiencing their own bereavements they created a positive business making sympathy cards and gifts more personal.

  Death and the Maiden

  15/03/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Bereavement, Business, Cards, Change, Charity, Child Funeral Charity, Children, Deadmaidens, Death, Design, Dying, Dying Matters, Emotion, Experiences, Expression, Grief, Illustration, Inspired Goodbyes, Loss, Memories, Sensitive, Sharing, Words