Erin Griffin : Living Well, Dying Wise

27/08/2025

wrote some words

reflections & resources

from this years Dying to Know shenanigans

what to prepare, what happens, what to leave behind

26/08/2025

We’ve just finished the Dying to Know online series and I learned so much! I’ll be gathering my thoughts and reflections and sending them back out via my substack. Pop me your email if you’d like to receive them directly to your inbox 💌

10/08/2025

This is a really good schpeil about why we should have our death ducks in a row - NOW! It's not too late to join us at Get Your Death Ducks in a Row - register via hello@eringriffin.com

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06/08/2025

Are you Dying to Know what to prepare, what happens, what to leave behind?

You’re invited to this series of online workshops hosted by Erin Griffin, your friendly death care educator to celebrate Dying to Know Day.

Workshop 1: Get your death ducks in a row, Monday 12th August 6pm - 7.30pm

Workshop 2: End of Life Matters with Registered Nurse, Lisa Tranter, Friday 15th August 6pm - 7:30pm (AWST)

Workshop 3: A Legal Guide to Leaving Your Legacy with Laura Tatchell, Tuesday 26th August 6pm - 7:30pm (AWST)

Join us for these thought provoking education session to help you engage with end of life planning in a new way!

Our hope is for you to leave feeling inspired by the multitude of end of life possibilities - we have more choice and control than we are led to believe! You’ll also be more empowered and equipped to have conversations with the people most important to you about your unique choices and wishes for your end-of-life.

Please note we will be talking openly about death and dying. If you are not feeling resourced in yourself, that’s ok, perhaps skip this session out. There will be other opportunities.
These sessions are for general information only.

$30 per session or $80 for all three
One booking per household – BYO friends or family
Bookings & questions: hello@eringriffin.com.au
These workshops will not be recorded.

05/08/2025

Bittersweet but thank you Fraser for showing us what is possible!

When popular Melbourne real estate agent Fraser Cahill, 37, was told he had just weeks to live, he wanted to do three things.
The first was to take his immediate family and four best friends on an all-expenses paid trip to Lizard Island.
The second was to host a party to end all parties.
The third was to find the perfect location to take his last breath.
He wanted to “set sail” on his own terms, with dignity.
Read Fraser's story in the Herald-Sun.
https://ow.ly/qpzs50WzMfm

02/08/2025

It’s Dying to Know Day / Month … no better time than NOW to think about the inevitable 🥳
Not in a morbid way … in a way that educates & empowers ❤️‍🔥Talking about death does not kill you but leaving everything to those left behind can do a great deal of damage …. Imagine your loved one coming back to haunt you for the rest of your life because you played ABBA at their final send off 🤭

Dying To Know what a Hottest 100 Funeral Song Playlist would include! Everyones been talking about triple j Hottest 100 Aussie Songs - BUT what if we had those conversations about the tunes we want played at our funerals or farewells? Tell us below what songs you've chosen and TAG some of your people so they know and they can share their tunes too!

27/07/2025

I don’t have an Australian number - sorry if you bipped me birthday love over there 🙈

Not everyone gets to make it to 40. Working in funerals & a mortuary made me acutely aware death comes & then becomes us, at any age. Each birthday, each day actually, is not a given.

Oscillating hard between wanting to be of the world and far far away from the world. I didn’t know until the day before my birthday, what I’d actually be up for. Thank you to my beautiful fairy friends & for celebrating me and making me feel so special and for my family .collette & for trying to!

rememberings I want to write down, at this turning of time, before I forget again:

When I slow down I feel more.

I’m in a season of solitude, savour it.

Keep questioning what it really means to live well and to die wise.

Not all who wander are lost.

The death shapes the grief.

How we die matters.

My body loves to move and be moved - let it, love it and dance while you still have a body!

When I’m walking fast I’m thinking fast.

I am fair weather … I fair better in sunny weather!

Gentle everything, please and thanks.

Exisiting is enough.

I am not my job title.

Keep asking your dead friends and family for their guidance.

YOU ARE CARRIED.

Wee mantra : LET THEM … I haven’t read the book but resonate with the title. Kinda like Pema Chodron’s “How we live is how we die”.

Pattern recognition & calling bu****it on my excuses is wise use of my energy.

Everything takes longer than I realise.

Forgive my 15, 17, 23, 30 +++ year old self as many times as I need to.

People pleasing is poison.

Forgive yourself for saying YES when you really mean NO and vice versa. That default is deeeeeep.

You are smarter than your smart phone!!!!!

Go gently, you are a sensitive, sensual, permeable, miracle mash up of stars and clay and memory and wonder.

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Thank you so much to everyone for the birthday love. It came in so many forms and I’m truly grateful for everyone who bought me a cuppa { coff.ee/eringriffin } so I can keep pottering along on this research and remembering trip that I didn’t realise I needed. The privilege is not lost on me.

22/07/2025

This looks epic! Perth pals get amongst this offering with Palliative Care WA Tender Funerals Perth and more ✨✨✨

A whole of community event , something we all will face and we can have our input into. of community event

22/07/2025

Julie Carlton Celebration of Life Celebrant
is running some more wonderful workshops at the stunning Boya library soon. Highly recommend taking the time to to think about your end of life, before you get there 🌿

The next Your Farewell Wishes workshop at Boya Library will be held on Thursday 7th August 5.30pm-7.30pm. Max 14 & only a few spots left to fill.

07/07/2025

Some peeps have asked me how they can celebrate me for my upcoming birthday since I have dropped off the planet somewhat.

So the fire cracker that is .stone_ who is travelling by my side, well she got me to do a ting. Here it is. lf you’d like to shout me a birthday cuppa, you can via:

coff.ee/eringriffin

Love yas, love me x x

24/03/2025

✨Your funeral,Your way - free workshops✨

How do we put the fun back into funerals?
Do we even need a funeral?
What will happen to my body when I die?
Must I really spend thousands of dollars to feed the multi billion dollar funeral industry?
These are questions we will explore in this not-at-all-morbid workshop!

Funerals: we don’t know much about them, until we need to know about them. Then when we need to know about them, we are often in the thick of processing a death and rarely is that a great time to have to decision make.

Everyone who gets to die is invited to a thought provoking workshop to contemplate how you would like your end of life to be celebrated … or not.

We don’t actually have to have a funeral, however if you have nothing in place, you might end up with something that costs thousands of dollars but doesn’t actually reflect the life you lived, the values you lived by or offer closure to your loved ones.

It is your end of life after all, and since we plan for everything else along the journey of life, it’s wise to dedicate some time and creativity to dreaming up your last hurrah.

If you are someone who would like there to be some kind of celebration to punctuate your life or you take pleasure and comfort in being organised, join us.

Please bring a note pad and pen.

This event is running at multiple locations.

Tuesday, March 25 2025 | 10am - 12pm | Bullsbrook Library

Wednesday, March 26 2025 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Old Midland Courthouse

Monday, April 7 2025 | 9:30am - 11:30am | Bechboro Library

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22/03/2025

for those wondering 💭