Key Information
Date & Time: Tuesday, 17th September at 7 pm.
Availability: 8 places are available in Clanfield, Hampshire, UK.
Location: The address will be given once your booking is confirmed.
Cost: This event is offered in service and there is no money to pay.
“Good conversations can change a lot of things.”
The House at the Edge is warmly inviting you to gather around the table to share food, stories and conversation about dying and being alongside people you love in their dying time.
Ten years ago, as my husband wrestled with terminal cancer, I was thrust unprepared into the realities of what it is to die in a death-phobic culture. Since then I have walked alongside many people and their loved ones as they face unwelcome diagnoses and the endings of the lives they had in mind.
This invitation comes with the recognition that these conversations can be tender and useful. They can be gritty and beautiful too. There are things to share and to wonder aloud about, and perhaps some glimpse of what it might look like to live and die well will appear among us.
“This kind of conversation is rare in our daily comings and goings and has been hard to find for a few generations now.
So that few of us, strange though it might sound, know how to talk our way towards these things. We do not have much of a shared language to help us know what grief is for, or how heartache is a skill, or what dying asks of us all, or who the dying and the dead should be to us.”