{"id":11512,"date":"2020-02-11T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=11512"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:25:59","slug":"dining-with-death-starting-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/11512","title":{"rendered":"Dining with death: Starting a conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Mari Pizzini\u2013<\/strong> Death can be a somber subject, but those that attended Morningside chaplain Andy Nelson\u2019s \u201cDeath over Dinner\u201d were anything but. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleven\ntotal students, professors, and community members joined in on the chat\nWednesday night. Attendee Taylor Van Vliet described the conversation, held in\nWeikert Auditorium on February 5, 2020, as being \u201clively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Topics\nin the discussion ranged from grief and grieving to making and decorating\ncoffins. Nelson first introduced the conversation to Morningside in November\n2019 to start the almost year-long project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\nintroduce the discussion, Religious Studies professor Elizabeth Coody said\n\u201cgrief makes you, you. You have a license to grieve whoever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson followed by saying, \u201chowever you can, follow the lead of the person who is grieving… Let them express their feelings and don\u2019t invalidate them,\u201d Nelson finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though\nNelson has been leading dinners specifically for Morningsiders, the national\norganization has been supporting all different #deathdinners since 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\na TED Talk Nelson had attendees watch, Katrina Spade, architect and death care\nadvocate, said that \u201cwe\u2019re all going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf\nthe idea of your mortality and death doesn\u2019t get you down,\u201d Spade continued,\n\u201cthe state of our funerality will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each\ndeath dinner is designed to bring the topic of death to a casual place of\ndiscussion. Its taboo feeling has turned death and its conversation into\nsomething many fear. Death over Dinner is working to change that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson\nhas said that he wants students at Morningside to become comfortable speaking\nabout their own end-of-life decisions, in addition to those of their family and\nfriends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnext session of Death over Dinner will be held March 4th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30\np.m. in Weikert Auditorium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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