LET’S TALK ABOUT DEATH

Kendra Speicher-Eisenstark’s Summer Death Education Series continues this week, offering the opportunity to confront one of life’s most inevitable yet avoided topics. The founder of the Center for Counseling and Applied Thanatology brings her thanatology expertise and clinical mental health counseling background from Hood College to bear on what she calls “death positivity.” Her four-class series — covering grief basics, death conversations, political grief and death planning — challenges the community’s typical discomfort with mortality. The program stems from Speicher-Eisenstark’s childhood experiences with family loss and her pandemic realization that most people lack tools for engaging with grief constructively. She has been on a mission to change that.

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