For terminally ill patients and their families, hospice can provide an opportunity to find comfort, companionship, and peace in the weeks, days, hours, and moments before death. Taking an intimate look at three patients – an eight-year-old boy with an incurable brain disease, a 46-year-old woman with lung cancer, and a 62-year-old man with an inoperable brain tumor – this program shows how hospice care helps them cope with fear and pain in the final stages of their lives and prepares loved ones for their imminent loss. In addition to extensive footage of the hospice patients and their families, the program sheds light on the decision-making process of the doctors, nurses, chaplains, social workers, and volunteers involved in hospice. An HBO production. (90 minutes)
*Individually wrapped, homemade skull cakelets will be provided.

Die Well Death Education

We're all going to die, so why don't we talk about it? I'm not saying talk about it so incessantly that people generally avoid you, (although you can if you want - I usually do) but rather talk about what we would like our end-of-life experience, our death, and our disposition to look and be like. With clear and concise communication and preparation, you can - and will - create the strongest possibility that you will experience a "good death." 

About DWDE

Leona Oceania has always been passionate and curious about end-of-life issues. Motivated by this, she trained to become a Home Funeral Guide, End of Life Doula, and Life Legacy Facilitator. She is also a Hospice volunteer, Funeral Consumer Advocate, Death Cafe Facilitator, and Death Educator. Leona's primary focus is to educate and motivate people to simply start the conversation. Once we can talk more openly about death and normalize the conversati, the better we will be able to connect with our own mortality and be proactive about creating a "good death" for ourselves and others. 

***NEW LOCATION!*** NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

This program is held at Piper Shores in partnership with Scarborough Public Library and OPEN TO ALL. 

Piper Shores “Founders Room” at the Oceanside campus, just inside the Main Entrance. Staff will be there to steer attendees in the right direction. Park anywhere labeled “Employee” or “Visitor." Piper Shores is located at 15 Piper Rd, Scarborough, Maine 04074