THANK YOU
Our sincere thanks to Leah and the Board of Directors of the Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society for approving our grant application in support of our participation in the National Swan Song Festival. Keep checking back for more information and updates as we forge ahead. And please, let us know if you would like to be involved.
We've created a Group on our CCDCNetwork Facebook page for the Creation phase of our local Swan Song Festival.
Read Angela's Swan Song article in the latest issue of The Green Gazette magazine.
Community Deathcare Canada is bringing together the first annual Swan Song Festival (OCTOBER 19th, 2019) as a national celebration of the re-engagement with death and dying in meaningful and community-based ways. Our full day Swan Song festival will happen on October 26th. We will be hosting a pre-festival death cafe on the evening of the 19th.
July News and Updates
Keeping the conversation going.
The Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network and Natural Burial in BC are advocating for the inclusion of Green Burial in Williams Lake, British Columbia. We have identified that Green Burial options are a priority for many residents of Williams Lake and neighbouring communities. Currently, there are just two disposition options available at the Williams Lake Municipal Cemetery. The cemetery offers cremation, or a traditional casket burial with a mandatory fiberglass vault.
We would like to include natural burial as the third option.
If this is important to you, please sign the petition.
For more information on what our petition is all about, visit Green Burial BC.
End of Life Matters
CCDCNetwork will be there with an information table to share what we're doing up here in the hinterland, and to network with a bunch of amazing people from the island and the lower mainland who share a passion for this work!
END OF LIFE MATTERS
Education and Resource Fair
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:00 AM at SFUEnd of Life Matters will include engaging presentations, discussions and an end-of-life resource fair. At this free all-day event, you can explore your questions, find out about the practicalities of end of life and develop your personal understanding of dying and its meaning for living.
OUR VISION
for the Cariboo Chilcotin.
- A Woodland Burial Ground for people and pets
- A building, a Gathering place
- A Tumulus, a Stone Barrow for the safekeeping of Ashes in Urns
- A Secular and Sacred place to come together in community and to remember our beloved dead.
Organizing our local participation in the National
SWAN SONG FESTIVAL
Swan Song Festival in Williams Lake and
across Canada, Oct 26th, 2019.
Community Deathcare Canada is launching the first annual Swan Song Festival across Canada, Oct 19th, 2019. While our full day will happen the following weekend, we will also be hosting a Death Cafe on the evening of the 19th.
Join us in creating a local event: a death parade, a Death dinner, a Death poetry night, a cemetery walk, Death sidewalk graffiti cafes, a storytelling night of those dying and those grieving. Anything you can imagine.
Interested in being involved? We'd love to hear from you!
We've created a Group on our CCDCNetwork Facebook page for the Creation phase of our local Swan Song Festival.
Email us and save the evening of July 25th at 5:30 to 7:30 for our first brainstorming meeting. We will update on where we'll meet but it will be downtown Williams Lake. Thanks.
Read our Swan Song article in the latest issue of the Green Gazette.
by Angela Gutzer, with a Natural Burial PS by Nicola Finch. Festival of art, theatre, dance ... celebrating life through Death Link to Article
Death Cafe article in the Williams Lake Tribune?
by Monica Lamb-Yorski
Death café explores the topic with ease and openness
Angela Gutzer and Nicola Finch bring compassion to the conversation Link to Article
Link to Resources
Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network
Death and Dying Resources for Williams Lake,
the Cariboo-Chilcotin and BC Interior
Photo: Soda Creek Cemetery
Douglas College
happening in Williams Lake July 8th through 12th, 2019
The End-of-Life Doula Certificate (BREV 1100) provides a non-credited college certificate for people wishing to provide quality end-of-life care to people who are dying and for their families.
End-of-Life Doulas are advocates for their clients and complement the work of the medical community and hospice-palliative care workers and volunteers. End-of-Life Doulas assist clients in creating and carrying out their health-care treatment decisions, as well as providing support to clients and their family and friends.
This certificate program has been developed with oversight of an advisory committee that includes representatives from the BC Centre for Palliative Care, the Camp Kerry Society and experienced palliative-care social workers. Click here to see the detailed Course Outline
About Us
Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network
Entrepreneur and Death Doula; Nicola Finch
Veterinarian and Death Doula; Angela Gutzer
Nicola Finch
'list maker'
Nicola brings her leadership skills and online expertise to the Network along with decades of involvement with deathcaring personally and professionally. She has a particular interest in death literacy through education. She took her Death Doula training through Douglas College.
Email 778-765-1552
Angela Gutzer
'dream keeper'
Angela is transitioning from her 11-year career as a veterinarian to pursue her passion for holistic deathcaring of people and pets. She currently works as a locum at various locations throughout BC. Angela has a particular interest in guiding families through the home funeral process. She completed ITM’s extensive Contemplative End of Life Care Program.
Email 250 267 4636
