Join us on Sunday, October 16, 2022, 2-4 pm, for a program titled “Death Care with Love, Vision, and Surprises.” Open to all. Free!
Come in person (masks optional): The Meadows Lodge, 43 Chestnut Street, East Longmeadow, MA. Refreshments!
Or join us via Zoom. To REGISTER for Zoom access, please email fcawmass@gmail.com before October 16 to indicate your interest; we will send you the Zoom link and access instructions prior to the event.
Event schedule:
2:00 pm Welcome and introductions; brief Annual Meeting
2:30 pm Presentations by a hospice nurse, a death doula, a widow… sharing their experiences.
3:30 pm Q & A Bring your questions!
Program Speakers:
Kate Mason is a retired hospice nurse with 13 yrs of loving and interesting experiences in the Boston area. When she moved west she joined FCAWM; she now serves as Secretary of the FCAWM Board.
Dina Stander is a western Massachusetts based End-of-life Navigator, funeral celebrant, and burial shroud maker. She is the founder of the Northeast Death Care Collaborative, a hospice volunteer, author, and a propagator of Phones of the Wind. You can learn more about her work at www.dinastander.com
Cecile Richard has been involved with FCAWM since October 2015 and is currently President of the FCAWM board. She had the privilege of providing end of life care to two family members in 2021 and will share the challenges of death care.
Joan Pillsbury, a retired nurse and FCAWM board member since 2010, will speak about death care and green burial for her husband, Dennis Pillsbury, our former Treasurer. Joan carried on his duties, becoming FCAWM Treasurer after his death.
See our Fall 2022 Newsletter for more about our Annual Membership Meeting (election of board members and officers, page 2) and the Program notice on the front page.
We hope you will join us October 16.