Grief & bereavement support

Confetti & tears

Confetti & tears In a strange way, we are happy. Our daughter was able to die without fear, without pain, at home with us. It tears me apart to write this line. And yet it is true. To lose a child

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Star children

Star children Dear parents, grandparents, siblings, godparents and friends, Your child may have been stillborn or may have had to leave this world early because of illness. Perhaps you have just recei

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What do we already know, what can we already do?

What do we already know, what can we already do? Yesterday evening I sat with fifteen strangers in a large garden at the edge of the city under a cherry tree. The sun dazzled me and burned into my ski

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Vorwort

Dear readers, Engaging with the subjects of death and dying requires courage. Far too often in our present-day society, shaped by speed and pressure to perform, we push aside the fact that our time is

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Cartoons on dying, death and grief

Cartoons on dying, death and grief Exhibition catalogue “SIE hat mir der Himmel geschickt!” The Hospiz-Akademie Bamberg celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2012 and, together with the hospice associat

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Discourse project: 30 Thoughts on Death

Discourse project: 30 Thoughts on Death No one can answer from personal experience, because when I am dead the “I” whose death is in question is no longer there. Yet death is something people think ab

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Trusting children to grieve

Trusting children to grieve Accompanying children in their grief By Anja Gehrke-Huy As a social educator and companion for dying and grieving people, she is less concerned with whether to speak with c

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Small children – big feelings

Small children – big feelings By Anja Gehrke-Huy Yet children encounter death in stories, nature, community life and sometimes within the family. Especially in preschool and primary-school age, they o

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Working with death

Working with death By Juliane Uhl For five years, she has worked with coffins, urns, cremation culture, funeral practices and the social handling of death. She asks whether this makes her an expert, a

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End-of-life accompaniment in old age: family-practice palliative medicine in a team

End-of-life accompaniment in old age: family-practice palliative medicine in a team Author: Dr. med. Peter Landendörfer – specialist in general medicine Accompanying dying patients is as old and as se

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Wenn Kinderbücher vom Tod erzählen

Grief, dying and death - gentle images, charming little animals and bright colours. Do these things belong together? Is it appropriate? Meaningful, even necessary? German scholar Susanne Beck has exam

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