livestream: Outside The Box by Liz Rothschild
Thursday 13th May
livestream - 7pm - free entry
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As part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, join Dead Good Days and author Liz Rothschild via ZOOM to hear everyday stories of death, bereavement and life from Liz’s book Outside The Box
We live in a society where people struggle to look death in the eye. Death has become the territory of professionals and we rarely see a dead body, unless it is someone very close to us. Death has become hidden, and so more traumatic. This book shows that, if we start talking openly about death, it can change the way we live. It is a collection of stories and images about death, dying and bereavement. People from all walks of life share their experiences and what they have learned from accompanying others. Heartbreaking, angry, questioning and contradictory - laugh-aloud funny, even - the stories illuminate, inspire, reassure and inform. They are accompanied by commentaries from professionals working in end-of-life planning, health, bereavement and funeral care.
Liz Rothschild is a writer, actor, playwright and founding director of Westmill woodland burial ground in Wiltshire. She has been a funeral celebrant for more than 25 years and has run numerous death cafes and a course on preparing for end of life. In 2012 she launched, and continues to curate, the Kicking the Bucket festival in Oxford. She also wrote and performs a one-woman show, Outside the Box – a life show about death, which premiered in 2016 and has toured the UK and US. Many of these stories come from her audiences.
Dead Good Days - for anyone who might, one day, die. They say “death does happen to everyone - our family, colleagues, friends, teachers & of course, ourselves. It is not talked about much, unless it is actually happening, and then, not always.” They organise family friendly events, workshops, performance and talks around death, dying and bereavement, in Southampton.
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If you’d like to order Outside The Box by Liz Rothschild, you can get it delivered directly to your door by clicking here! We also have a wide range of incredible inspiring and informational books about life, death, dying and everything in between. If you’d like a recommendation please ask via email or when you’re next in the shop.
