YOU ONLY DIE ONCE TALK, PLAN, LIVE TALK, PLAN, LIVE National Dying Matters Awareness Week Nobody gets out of life alive.
18th – 24th May 2015
Princes Risborough
Brochures kindly printed and donated by
K.Y Green,The Corner Shop, Market Square,
Princes Risborough, Bucks, HP27 0AN.
Telephone: 01844 344132
19.00 – 20.30 hrs Icknield Court Fremantle Trust Care Home
Ø Families facing the end of life – Family-led funeral
planning
Only with Love, Claire Turnham, conversations with family
members addressing the difficulties that accompany the
end of life for the carers of the dying; moving, unflinching
and sensitive information on support and skills necessary
to care for your loved ones at home when they die
YOU ONLY DIE ONCE TALK, PLAN, LIVE (Downstairs foyer)
What’s on this week in Princes Risborough?
19.00 – 20.30 hrs Icknield Court Fremantle Trust Care Home
Monday 18.5.2015
Ø Where there is a Will… Making, updating, and storing
10.00 – 13.30
hrsWill
St Mary’s Chapter House
your
Matt Ash from Ash Wills guiding family members in
Ø Dead-inspired Art Exhibition
important legal matters of making a Will and Lasting Power
of Attorney (two types)
(Upstairs lounge)
14.00 – 16.00 hrs Icknield Court Fremantle Trust Care Home
Finity from Prestwood joins Princes Risborough
community in marking Dying Matters Awareness Week
Sunday 17.5
16.30 for 17.00 hrs The Oldham Hall, Church Street,
Great Missenden, HP16 0AZ
Ø Film show – “What we did on our holiday”
Tickets £5 on the door
Welcome for a drink and chat afterwards
Sunday 24.5
Meet at 14.00 hrs at the Buryfields side of Great Missenden
Memorial Hall, Link Road, Great Missenden, HP16 9AE
Ø Finity Woodland Walk – A chance to talk – followed by
tea and cake
www.finity.org.uk
Caring for Life, Preparing for Death
Ø What it means to die, how to prepare for it. We need
to talk about dying… I want to talk about …..
Tuesday 2.6.
Ø Supporting staff to feel more prepared to talk about
living and dying well with residents and their families
14.30 hrs start Berkhamsted Wharf
Only with Love, Claire Turnham, helping residents & carers to
explore and discuss death, dying and funerals (Downstairs foyer)
Death Cafe on a Barge ‘Mystic Moon’ - together with Sue
Brayne, author of the book ‘The D Word: Talking about
Dying: A Guide for Relatives, Friends and Carers’
Please go online to http://deathcafe.com/deathcafe/1742/ in
order to reserve a place, or contact [email protected]
or leave a massage on 01494 86613
Thursday 21.5.2015
19.00 – 20.30 hrs Icknield Court Fremantle Trust Care Home
Ø Families facing the end of life – Family-led funeral
planning
14.00 – 16.00 hrs Princes Risborough Library, High Street
Ø Why does God allow pain and suffering? A Christian
perspective; talk and discussion led by Rev Jim Taylor
from St Mary’s Church
We need to talk about ….Heaven
“God is proactively with us in our suffering,
redeeming the weight of the suffering – into the weight
of glory.”
Free coffee, tea and biscuits kindly provided by K.Y. Green Funeral Directors
19.00 – 20.30 hrs K.Y. Green Funeral Shop, Market Square
Ø What it means to have a good death – What would
you want your doctor to do?
Ø Medicine is about offering us care till death, not
about curing us from death…
Talk and sharing of our thoughts on modern medicine
staving off death with aggressive interventions, led by Dr
Jo Withers, GP
Free coffee, tea and biscuits kindly provided by K.Y. Green Funeral Directors
Only with Love, Claire Turnham, conversations with family
members addressing the difficulties that accompany the
end of life for the carers of the dying; moving, unflinching
and sensitive information on support and skills necessary
to care for your loved ones at home when they die
(Downstairs foyer)
19.00 – 20.30 hrs Icknield Court Fremantle Trust Care Home
Ø Where there is a Will… Making, updating, and storing
your Will
Matt Ash from Ash Wills guiding family members in
important legal matters of making a Will and Lasting Power
of Attorney (two types)
(Upstairs lounge)
Tuesday 19.5.2015
14.00 – 16.00 hrs Princes Risborough Library, High Street
Ø You can’t take it with you! Organising your
financial and legal affairs
Don’t leave it too late and don’t leave it to someone else!
Plan ahead, whatever your age, stage, or bank balance –
then get on living your life!
•
Independent Financial Advisor John Thornton from
Cansdale Ltd will speak on understanding
Inheritance Tax, pension planning, Funeral Plans
(the total cost of dying), funding end-of-life care
fees, Equity Release, and Probates
•
Matt Ash from Ash Wills shares information on
making/rewriting a Will, making Advance
Decisions, and Lasting Power of Attorney (for
welfare and/or financial affairs)
Free coffee, tea and biscuits kindly provided by K.Y. Green Funeral
Directors
community: a natural burial and a green funeral offer you the
most ecological and economical funeral options… See a natural
eco coffin/shroud option demonstration. Return bus back to
High Street by appr. 17.00 hrs
Wednesday 20.5.2015 12.00 – 14.00 hrs Costa Coffee, High Street
Ø Welcome to Death Café – Let’s Talk about Death!
Come and drink tea, coffee, eat cake and discuss death.
Our aim is to increase awareness of death to help people
make the most of their (finite) lives.
"We spend so much time distancing ourselves from death and
thinking it is something that happens to other people.
Death is one of the few things that unites us." (Emma Kenny)
Tuesday 19.5.2015
14.00 – 16.00 hrs Princes Risborough Library, High Street
Ø You can’t take it with you! Organising your
financial and legal affairs
Don’t leave it too late and don’t leave it to someone else!
Plan ahead, whatever your age, stage, or bank balance –
then get on living your life!
•
Independent Financial Advisor John Thornton from
Cansdale Ltd will speak on understanding
Inheritance Tax, pension planning, Funeral Plans
(the total cost of dying), funding end-of-life care
fees, Equity Release, and Probates
•
Matt Ash from Ash Wills shares information on
making/rewriting a Will, making Advance
Decisions, and Lasting Power of Attorney (for
welfare and/or financial affairs)
14.30 hrs George and Dragon Bus Stop, High Street Ø The ‘Last Bus’ – Risborough Community Bus ride
to visit Aylesbury Vale Natural Burial Meadow,
Owlswick
Afternoon tea in a marquee and guided tour (with Custodian
Sally Whitworth) to this tranquil beautiful burial meadow in our
Free coffee, tea and biscuits kindly provided by K.Y. Green Funeral
Directors
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