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Michelle Acciavatti, EOL education advocacy &planning, EOLDoula, home funerals, medical autonomy, green burial & @greenburialVT *Life matters-talk about death*

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My essay "Being Ending Well" is featured in this edition of Natural Transitions Magazine "The New Death Cafe Professionals" https://t.co/L5D4NYN58I

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6 things I am doing to help build death informed communities https://t.co/rtVUogB3oN

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This Winter I got to talk about Green Burial on VPR https://t.co/T7HfhgAExc

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Quality > Quantity

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Have you ever thought about how old you'd like to be when you die? I chatted with a little girl recently who told me she wanted to live to be 100 years old! So cute. And yet most people… https://t.co/H47IR2PWAa

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I always enjoy speaking with Ken Picard of @sevendaysvt This time it was about human composting (a la @recomposelife) and its possible future in Vermont. Glad to see @GreenBurialVT get mentioned too. https://t.co/vUgpPL5rGV

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@recomposelife people in VT are starting to ask why *they* can’t be composted (most already compost food and livestock). 70% of Vermonters choose cremation, for there to be this much interest in what you’re offering suggests you have a movement on your hands!

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@thedeathtivals It’s an interesting intersection of death phobia and xenophobia.... because clearly people on the other side of world can’t have “better” after death practices than us...

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New Legislation Seeks To Protect Lost African-American Burial Grounds

https://t.co/FxRnDSDCTa

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Retweeting this. Looking for resources on non-death-related disenfranchised grief. i.e. after someone is incarcerated, experiencing a sudden traumatic injury... suggestion very much needed and very much appreciated #grief

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Hey my #grief and #bereavement specialists I’m crowd sourcing for resources on non-death related, #disenfranchisedgrief (think incarceration, addiction, mental and traumatic illness/disability). Any help most appreciated- please share widely.

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@thedeathtivals This is an incredibly disrespectful headline

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@thedeathdeck @griefcreativity @kimacquaviva @TNK_FILM Doesn’t it? I can’t believe I haven’t heard more about it!

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Hey my #grief and #bereavement specialists I’m crowd sourcing for resources on non-death related, #disenfranchisedgrief (think incarceration, addiction, mental and traumatic illness/disability). Any help most appreciated- please share widely.

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@thedeathtivals When my two best friends died just before college graduation and our speaker was all like “the world is yours, you can be anything!” I did mutter to myself “yea, and one of those things is DEAD” so it’s not like I’m not bitter about it sometimes.

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@thedeathtivals I honestly never thought otherwise... I took my first steps at my great-grandmother’s funeral, not that I remember that but I don’t remember a time I don’t remember the story. So Dying was always just something people did but...(see next tweet)

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@griefcreativity @thedeathdeck This is new to me, thank you!

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When circumstances change, can you say to yourself “now I am here” and embrace it? This question is central to values-based, quality-of-life framework I help my clients develop in my planning and doula work

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What's the one trait I've noticed in my work as a death doula that makes the process of disease and death a smidgereen more gentle? Adaptability: the ability to adapt to a new… https://t.co/VjyBUoNJUo

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@baldgrrl @CBC @cbcwhitecoat @ElizabethLesser @phyllis_shacter Also the documentaries “Dying Wish” about Dr. Michael Miller and “Tomorrow Never Knows” about Shar Jones as well as this incredible podcast by @rumblestripvt https://t.co/exPD4iF6fx
And here is the CBC link: https://t.co/ztr6fBMsgi

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@baldgrrl Definitely assisted dying and disenfranchised grief also deserve major study. The @CBC show @cbcwhitecoat did a great show with families after assisted dying and there are some good memoirs @ElizabethLesser “Marrow” and @phyllis_Shacter “Choosing to Die” (see next tweet for more)

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The most useful thing I’ve leaned re: talking about death with a child is to let them explain to you what they understand first- that gives you the framework to navigate the conversation. That and remember even older children may lack the vocab to express what they feel&need

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Screenshot this, save it, add it to your collections. Most of us at some point will have to explain death to a child and its no easy feat to explain that which you don’t understand… https://t.co/tmQD0hPH3T