The Death Postiive Project

"I am going to die, and so are you.

For many of us, especially Westerners, this is a challenging thing to face. We are not particularly good at accepting death — or anything that’s painful or uncomfortable. If something is broken, we want to fix it. If someone is sad, we try to distract them. If an item is old or worn out, we rush to replace it.

But there’s no fixing death. There’s no way around it. The only solution is to accept it. And accepting it, as odd as it may seem, helps us to better appreciate the days we are given."

Katie Hawkins-Garr

"People who are death positive believe that it is not morbid or taboo to speak openly about death. They see honest conversations about death & dying as the cornerstone of a healthy society.” While acknowledging that death is painful and messy, the death positivity movement aims to “break the culture of silence around death through discussion, gatherings, art, innovation, and scholarship".

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The Death Positive Project consists of:

Terry’s Going to Die (and It’s OK)
15 - 20 minute documentary currently in production.

Terry M. has lived a full and meaningful 85 years, but is fully prepared for it to end when the time comes.

Don’t Buy the Box

This will be both a short documentary film and social media project on alternatives to expensive, impersonal, and environmentally unfriendly urns and caskets. In it I will show and talk about the DIY urn that I created for my maman’s ashes, as well as the efforts of others .

Pathways to Better Grieving

Multimedia project that explores alternative approaches to mourning that are more personal, meaningful, and comforting.