Erin Griffin : Living Well, Dying Wise

15/11/2025

gathering for grief, love and remembrance

St John of God Murdoch Hospital and City of Melville are joining forces again to present 'Light up the Lake with Love' Christmas memorial on Sunday 7 December 2025.

The organisers extend a warm welcome to individuals and families and look forward to another beautiful evening of peaceful reflection and honouring the lives of those we love.

See below for further details.

13/11/2025

This was SUCH AN INCREDIBLE MOVIE.
Psilocybin 🍄‍🟫 is being used in clinical trials with brilliant results to help people prepare for death and live more fully, often with less fear. Who doesn’t want that?!?

These medicines have their place in death care for those that choose it 🫶🏽

Here’s the review ::::

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/12/edge-of-life-review-documentary-film?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=soc_567&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwOCuqFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEecyZutytyM4eBM8jjMnHEREVQMWLKhKpjGsH-yzZ3MI12REV-M5XkkuHQ6Po_aem_e6zAHXYQalgbGGH4APYgfA =1762956800

11/11/2025

Please sign and share far and wide if you too would like to see another option here in death care in WA. A gentle, enviromentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation 🍄

Awesome work Walker Family Funerals Perth 🙏

Details about a Legislative Council petition.

09/11/2025

“I wish I would have known.”

We hear it all the time…

I wish I would have known I could bring them home.

Iwish I would have known they still belonged to me.

Not to the hospital. Not to the funeral home.

But most people don’t know and that’s why we’re here.

Death doulas know and we want everyone to know.

07/11/2025

LiminalBeing love your work 🫶🏽

It’s an uncomfortable topic for many but experts say understanding your parents’ wishes before they pass will save additional heartache later on.

07/11/2025

❤❤❤

07/11/2025

Lionheart Camp For Kids 🫶🏽

01/11/2025

Started writing a Substack a month ago … finally hit send 💌

There is a lot missing from this story but there’s still a lot of humanness you may find relatable, if you fancy x

https://dyingwise.substack.com/p/my-irish-summer

30/10/2025

♻️Another from the archives ♻️

We are all just souls, wanting to be seen.
My chiropractor introduced me to this possibility years ago and I’ve ran with it ever since.

YOU DON’T FIX GRIEF but we can bear witness to one another’s.

Spoiler alert, you don’t “get over it” either. I don’t think it even goes away but it helps you grow, in a way. Like a strange and peculiar fertiliser 🤭

I can still remember the sensations in my body as I supported a dear elder, through her grief that was as old as her.

The shift when I acknowledged what had happened to her (incomprehensible parental abuse, making grief somewhat disenfranchised, traumatic and complex) was wild. Wild in that it had held such a charge for so long and then … dissolution of that charge.

🙅‍♀️ I do not suggest getting people to ‘unpack’ their trauma if you are not skilled at repacking - not at all 🙅‍♀️

But I do feel we can support one another so much simply by listening deeply and sincerely ❤️‍🩹

30/10/2025

Andrea Anthony of Bringing You Home End of Life Doula Services hosts this death cafe and they are a wonderful entry point to talking death in a casual setting ☕️

Come and talk about all things death, dying, and loss in a welcoming, friendly space over a cuppa.

29/10/2025

Another amazing offering from Palliative Care WA & Sabena!

Join us at our Cup Half Full - Grief Café during Seniors Week on 14 November at Mattie Furphy House in Swanbourne.

The café will run from 10.00am to 12.00pm and welcomes people to share about loss and grief over coffee and cake in a safe space to talk and listen.

The café will be facilitated by Sabena Lund, who has training and experience in holding group spaces and conversations.

This event has been made possible through Advocare with funding from the Department of Communities and Lotterywest.

To book, please visit: https://events.humanitix.com/cup-half-full-grief-cafe