Tag: Good Death

• Prince Deserved a Good Death

  

  Two years on, Caroline Reilly reflects on Prince’s death. Looking back at her own experiences of pain and prescription medication, she finds a clearer picture of this ephemeral man and her heart aches for the way he died, enraged at how badly society failed him both when he was living and after he died.

  Death and the Maiden

  21/04/2018

  Caroline Reilly

  2016, America, Celebrity, Celebrity Death, Death, Drugs, Good Death, Legend, Medical, Music, Pain, Perscription Medication, Prince, Private, Public

• The Privilege of a Good Death

  Who is more likely to access a good death? Who is more likely to face a bad death? While tragic accidents tend to be great equalizers, we cannot make whole a death positive movement without addressing how privilege grants likelier access to a good death, and how oppression can position someone more likely to face…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/11/2016

  Guest Post

  active, Activism, Attitudes, Caitlin Doughty, Deadmaidens, Death Positive, Education, Good Death, Medical, Missing Women, Murder, Police, Power, social justice, Support

• Doulas: Doing Death Differently

  We are doulas of death. A birth doula provides support and guidance to the birthday mother and the brand new life. End of life doulas have forged an innovative approach to the care of the dying by putting emphasis on the importance of relationship and accompaniment. What we do is support. Practical and emotional support…

  Death and the Maiden

  19/10/2015

  Guest Post

  Birth, Career, Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Doula, Doulas of Death, Dying with Dignity, Emotional, End of Life Care, Experiences, Good Death, Grief, Life Cycle, Loss, New Approaches, Society, Spiritual, Support

• The Winter of Our Lives

  Death & the Maidens’ own Lucy Talbot talks with Dr Monica Williams-Murphy about her role as Emergency Medicine Physician, the experiences that led her to write the wonderful It’s OK to Die and travel across America educating and advocating for a better approach to death and dying. Explaining why we all need to prepare for the…

  Death and the Maiden

  07/06/2015

  Book Club, Interview, Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Doctors, Dying, Dying Matters, Education, End of Life, Experiences, Gender Roles, Good Death, Grief, Holistic Approaches, Hospice, Its OK to Die, Life, Life Cycle, Medical Practice, Medicine, Monica Williams-Murphy, Nature, Palliative Care, Preparation, Seasons, Society, Sprituality, Winter

• The Passing Diaries

  With a tearful embrace and our sobs of grief echoing throughout the arrival terminal, I fully realized the profound nature of our visit. Thirty minutes later we were at my mothers bedside.. her frail body illuminated by a single bulb above her head. The room was so quiet, the air still in anticipation of some…

  Death and the Maiden

  31/05/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Change, Creative, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Experiences, Expression, Family, Good Death, Grief, Loss, Memories

• The Rebozo: Fashion, Feminism and Death

  Death & the Maiden’s own Sarah Chavez presents the rebozo. For centuries, broken-hearted mothers have wrapped their lifeless infants in them for burial and covered their faces with it to signify mourning. The use of the rebozo as a shroud was once so common in Mexico, many artisans created them solely for this purpose, whereas today,…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/04/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Burial Shrouds, Culture, Fashion, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Good Death, Heritage, History, Las Soldaderas, Latin America, Memento Mori, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Motherhood, Mourning, Pregnancy, Rebozo, Textiles