BELLOWS FALLS — Brattleboro Area Hospice offers its popular “Death and Dying for Beginners” class on four consecutive Wednesdays, May 28 thru June 18, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Parks Place, 44 School St.
The class provides opportunities for individuals to explore awareness, attitudes, and feelings about death and dying. Participants will learn how to provide emotional and practical support to individuals and families facing or grieving a death.
The class, structured around readings, discussion, and personal reflection, offers a time for exploration into this challenging and often-avoided topic.
Class size is limited, and registration and a pre-course conversation with one of leaders is required. There is no cost to partcipate.
Brattleboro Area Hospice (www.brattleborohospice.org) says the extent to which we engage our mortality has a direct impact on how we live our lives.
The program is led by Brattleboro Area Hospice program coordinator Patty Dunn and care coordinator Ryan Murphy. The curriculum includes material used to train hospice and bereavement volunteers to serve families in the community facing terminal illness, death, and grief.
Brattleboro Area Hospice provides volunteer-staffed programs that complement the professional medical services frequently used by families and individuals facing and experiencing the death of a loved one. The organization works closely with the medical community in a variety of settings to provide non-medical assistance to the terminally ill and those close to them as far from the event of end of life as two years.
Hospice offers bereavement groups, counseling services, and volunteer support to community members seeking companionship and understanding surrounding and following a loss.
Brattleboro Area Hospice serves as a community resource on the issues of death and dying and offers educational presentations and opportunities for exploration into this topic. Its services are provided free of charge.