Events
The latest talks, webinars, and other events
Before You Lose Your Mind . . . Take Control and Start Planning!
What are your hopes, fears, and intentions for your care if you’re suffering from cognitive illness? Have you translated these into clear advance directives to guide your loved ones and medical care team? In a supportive friendly environment we’ll learn how to do this from experts and from each other. Zoom event. Free, with donations gratefully accepted. Register here. For more information click here.
How to Live Forever - Session 2
We’ll go deeper with questions and discussion started in Session 1 (you don’t have to attend Session 1, but it’s encouraged). Join us for a “death over dinner” style conversation with questions intended to lend inspire thinking, feeling, insight, and maybe a few laughs. Online or limited in person at the Portsmouth Public Library. For more details click here.
How to Live Forever - Session 1
Join us for the kick-off of our series, “Talking About Death Won’t Kill You - and May Help You Live More Joyfully.” Part 1, How to Live Forever, is two sessions focused on examining our own values and beliefs, concerns and aspirations as we think about end of life, dealing with terminal illness, and how we weave our legacy. Meant to fun and a bit challenging, this workshop will help you have good conversations about end of life with those who matter most to you. Register for one or both. Online or limited in person at the Portsmouth Public Library. For more details click here.
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Alliance On-line Book Discussion
Join us Wednesday, March 30, 5:30 - 7 p.m. for the first Alliance book conversation via Zoom. Choose your own book. See some of our favorite books here. Books purchased though the Alliance website support the movement! E-mail us for the Zoom link.
Take a Break from Your Grief
Interactive four-session course through RoundGlass, with Angel Grant, meditation teacher and co-founder of Death Over Dinner. During times of intense pain, we are wired to disconnect from ourselves in ways that are intended by our subconscious to get us out of some of the pain. This series will offer a soothing space for restoration, without a focus on the loss. It will support bringing back a sense of well-being and inner peace existing below the ache. Register here.
Finish Strong: Don't Worry, Be Ready
On line. Compassion & Choices' Dementia Values & Priorities tool will help you identify the level of care that’s right for you in the face of advancing disease. This addendum to your healthcare directive walks through the symptoms that accompany the various stages of dementia and helps you indicate to your loved ones what matters most to you. Matt Whitaker, Compassion & Choices' national director of integrated programs, will demonstrate the online tool and answer your questions. Register here.
Everything You Wanted to Know About VSED but were Afraid to Ask
On line. Sponsored by Compassion and Choices. Dr. Timothy E. Quill, co-author of the new book, Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death, will discuss the clinical, ethical, legal and institutional issues that arise in the context of choosing to stop eating and drinking at the end of life or for those suffering from dementia. Register here.
On-line Conference: Let's Talk About Medical Aid-in-Dying
The Completed Life Initiative’s second annual conference. Leading experts in the right-to-die movement will explore what it means to live a Completed Life from the perspective of medical aid-in-dying. Every Tuesday and Thursday. Free, on line. For schedule and to register click here.
Clinical Considerations in Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking
Hosted by the Completed Life Initiative. For more information and registration follow this link.
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking book launch
The Competed life Initiative is hosting two related events. Attend one or both. Oct. 21 is a book launch for Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. To register follow this link.
Language as Medicine: Finding the Right Words
We may know intellectually that mortality is inevitable, but how do we access the language and state of mind necessary to consider the type of care we - and our loved ones - want when we fall ill? Dr. Sunita Puri will share wisdom based on her work as Medical Director of Palliative Medicine at the University of Southern California. Offered by the Hospice of Santa Barbara. Learn more and register here.
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Join a discussion with the author of this new book, hosted by the Completed Life Initiative. Learn more and register here.
When is Suffering Enough?
Is feeling burdening to others a kind of suffering? How does someone maintain their personhood while suffering through a complicated illness? What is a good death from the perspective of different theological traditions? In three seminars over two days, these issues will be explored by the Completed Life Initiative. Find out more here.
Love & Resilience: Contemplative Care Summit
The New York Zen Center and Lion’s Roar magazine are offering a series of seminars over five days, all free and on demand. A great opportunity to delve into issues from facing aging and illness to resilience for caregivers. Find out more and register here.
The Case for Advance Directives
Completed Life Initiative Lunch Hour Talk, with ethicist Paul Manzel. Talk will focus on advance directives and dementia. Contact NHAELO and we’ll send you the email. Better yet, get on the Completed Life Initiative mailing list. www.completedlife.org
Town Hall on Palliative Sedation
Part of the Completed Life Initiative, two noted physicians will discuss sedation of dying patients, often a last resort for pain management. On-line event. Contact us to get more information.
Diane Rehm
Livestream with author and former NPR radio host Diane Rehm on her book “When My Times Comes” - interviews with people for and against medical aid in dying.