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09/12/2025

08/27/2025

Death - Out of the Shadows. Another screening taking place at the Clinton Street Theater on September 14th with a panel of question and answer to follow.

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08/19/2025

Save the date! and please attend Mt. Hood Hospice's Time of Remembering in Meinig Park.

When: Thursday August 28th, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Why: Because our departed loved ones want to be remembered and honored. Plus, doing so keeps their memory alive.

More info at: https://mthoodhospice.org/community-services/times-of-remembering/

08/19/2025

In every walk with nature one receives far more than they seek. Green Burial is one of the greatest joys of my life. I am always thrilled when someone reaches out to ask me about it.

08/07/2025

A special gift today from Green Burial Portland friend Knox Monica. These are photos from the special wind phone she visited recently in the Garden of Hope at the City of Hope Hospital in Pasadena, CA.

08/05/2025

My last words to someone who is dying are often simple, but never small. “I’ve got you.” I say it softly, with my hand in theirs or resting gently on their shoulder. I want them to know that they are not alone. Not now. Not in this moment that can feel so unknown, so final. I want them to feel held, not just physically, but emotionally, and spiritually. To know that someone is bearing witness. That someone is walking them to the very edge and not turning away.

As they take their final breath, I stay. I whisper goodbye, and I thank them… for their trust, their courage, and for allowing me into such an intimate chapter of their story. It’s an honor I don’t take lightly. These moments change me. Every time. And no matter how many times I’ve done this, it never becomes routine. It’s sacred. Always.

xo
Gabby
www.thehospiceheart.net

08/05/2025

Making Visible the Invisible: A Community Conversation about Death and Dying.  Death Cafe is a co-generational gathering that aims to create a comfortable and open space for people to gather and discuss topics related to death, dying, and mortality, and all that it is to be human, navigatin

08/05/2025

"Slang expert Jonathon Green has an amazing interactive timeline taken from his monumental, three-volume Green’s Dictionary of Slang on terms for death."

1. Turn over the perch (1594)
2. Yield the crow a pudding (1599)
3. Put to bed with a shovel (1707)
4. Put into one’s cool crepe (1725)
5. Slip one’s wind (1772)
6. Go out with a wooden habeas (1785)
7. Hop the twig (1797)
8. Lose the number of one’s mess (1814)
9. Booked by the Gravesend bus (1838)
10. Measure over the counter (1841)
11. Cut the painter (1850)
12. Ride old Charon’s Ferry-boat (1854)
13. Hand in one’s checks (1857)
14. Take a blinder (1859)
15. Lay down one’s knife and fork (1864)
16. Make a die of it (1866)
17. Go up Green River (1872)
18. Stick one’s spoon in the wall (1873)
19. Climb the golden staircase (1883)
20. Deal one’s final lay-out (1887)
21. Push clouds (1887)
22. Climb the greasy pole (1890)
23. Pull the string (of the shower bath) (1893)
24. Do a seven (1894)
25. S***f one’s glim (1900)
26. Throw in one’s toe (1901)
27. Take the count (1902)
28. Shoot one’s star (1903)
29. Toss in one’s agate (1906)
30. Chuck up one’s bunch of fives (1909)
31. Go trumpet cleaning (1915)
32. Become a landowner (1916)
33. Answer the last roll call (1936)
34. Hand in one’s dinner pail (1937)
35. Climb the six foot ladder (1950)

About Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. ad 1000 to the present day. The main focus of the dictionary is the coverage of over 500 years of slang from c. 1500 onwards.
https://greensdictofslang.com/about/

07/17/2025

Compartmentalized and easy to read. Great job!

From end-of-life care to burials and beyond, we tackled your questions on the topic.