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Planning for dying. Learning for living.


The Return of the Auspicious
... one could see a death day as auspicious, a good thing, a celebration, a day that carries meaningful outcomes long into the future....

Carolyn Coleman
Feb 65 min read


Rites of Passage: Funerals both grand and modest build a better world
Funerals are a glimpse of a culture that shares the communion of grief and works together to care for the most vulnerable of all its...

Carolyn Coleman
Jan 127 min read


Riff On a Recent Article About "Premortems"
Paying attention to your goals helps you find satisfaction at death.

Carolyn Coleman
Jan 43 min read


Grieving Creature
Creature came to us by accident. I promised the elderly couple that I would find good homes for their three small dogs so they could feel...

Carolyn Coleman
Nov 12, 20244 min read


The Gift of Death
Would that we all die so abundantly. Would that more humans connect the language of giftedness with death. In my daily installment of...

Carolyn Coleman
Nov 12, 20244 min read


You Lose When You Deny Death
This article was published April 24, 2024 in The Living Church . In the seven years at my current parish, I have commended to God the...

Carolyn Coleman
Nov 12, 20245 min read
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