OUR MOST RECENT ANNUAL MEETING WAS HELD
Sunday October 21, 2012
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Clarion Hotel, Northampton One Atwood Drive, Northampton, MA (just off Exit 18 from Route 91)
SPEAKER: Gail Rubin.
This nationally known author and speaker will give a humorous and informative presentation based on her book: A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die and The Family Plot Blog.
“Just as talking about sex won’t make you pregnant, talking about funerals won’t make you dead – and your family will benefit from the conversation,” says Gail, who bills herself as The Doyenne of Death™. She has many creative ideas for funeral planning and will put a light touch on the subject.
Sample more of of her wit and wisdom at http://agoodgoodbye.com
Using gentle humor and clips from comedy films and TV programs, she regularly speaks to groups to get the funeral planning conversation started. She is a cancer survivor and a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling as well as the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association.
There is no charge for the meeting which is open to the public (you do not have to be a member to attend our annual meetings or board meetings) and includes free refreshments in addition to a brief business meeting with reports and elections.
View a printable flyer for the event
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Other Past Annual Meetings have featured:
2011 Panel on Organ Donation:
• Ginnie Teed, Program Manager for Tissue Development, New England Organ Bank;
• Joe Manzo, Administrative Coordinator, Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Bank
• Carol Coan, author, Unwrapping the Anatomical Gift (UMass Anthropology PhD)
2010 Joanna Lillian Brown, author of "Caring for Dying Loved Ones: A Helpful Guide for Families and Friends".
2009 Panel on home funerals: “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Home Funerals but Didn’t Know Whom to Ask”
2008 Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial, spoke on "Bringing Green Burial to Western Massachusetts".
See our Annual Meetings Archive for more on past meetings
Watch for more details on our next annual meeting as the date approaches.