Seattle October Events


Cait lin Doughty, creator of Ask A Mortician video series, author and fou nder o f The Order of the Good Death will be back in Seattle to talk about her new  book:
 
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death


Friday, October 6, 2017, 7:30PM
Doors open at 6:30PM
The Summit on Pike
420 E Pike St
Seattle, WA 98102

Also this month, your PMA Board President, Elizabeth Coplan of The Grief Dialogues will be premiering her new full length play:

Hospice
Tuesday, October 17 @ 7pm 
18th & Union Arts Space

Click on The Grief Dialogues logo to purchase tickets!

   
End of Life Planning Workshop

DucksInARow

    Three speakers will cover:
      • Legal and financial affairs
      • Advance directives, POLST and Death with Dignity
      • Funeral Planning

Suggested Donation is $10 
Please click on 
the Ducks above to register

Everett/Snohomish

Saturday, November 4, 2017*
9:30am-12:30pm
A Sacred Moment Tribute Center
1924 Bickford Ave Suite 103 in Snohomish, WA



*we must have at least 35 registrants, two weeks prior to guarantee the workshop

Death Salon Seattle Re-cap

For those of you who weren't able to join us for Death Salon Seattle (September 9-10, 2017) you missed a wonderful, death positive event.  The sold out event saw  250 "death-lings" from around the world gathered for fabulous workshops, celebrations and "death over lunch" conversations.

Death Salon Seattle kicked off with the premier e of The Grief Dialogues , produced by PMA's board president, Elizabeth Coplan on Friday, September 8th.

Workshop topics covered grief, funeral and cemetery law, recompostion , how cultures affect death rituals, and introduced us to Resting Waters , a Seattle pet funeral home offering Biochemical Hydrolysis. Here is a wonderful recap of the whole weekend's events .  All the workshops were illustrated in art posters by the talented Silent James.

Many thanks to the University of Washington's School of Social Work and The Co-op Funeral Home as hosts and sponsors!

Keep your fingers crossed that Death Salon will swing back here in Seattle!
   
Biochemical Hydrolysis for Pets

People's Memorial will continue our efforts to have Biochemical Hydrolysis legalized for humans in the 2018 state legislative session.  We've been working to alleviate any opposition to the bill over the summer and will keep you updated on our progress later this fall.

In the meantime, we wanted to let you know that Biochemical Hydrolysis has many names including Aquamation, Resomation, Bio-Cremation, Alkaline Hydrolysis, and Water Cremation   It is now a legal option for humans in 15 states: California and Nevada are the most recent to legalize it.  A few additional states are Oregon, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, and Minnesota.  

Resting Waters, in Seattle, offers this legal disposition method for pets and was recently featured in the Sunday Seattle Times' Pacific NW Magazine. 


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