Grief & End of Life Collective - Mid North Coast

01/08/2026

📢📢Only one week to go!! 📢📢
Have you secured your place?
Let's initiate a thoughtful discussion about end-of-life care and the decisions that can help us and our loved ones to navigate our own death.
This will be a respectful, honest, and valuable opportunity to address the one certainty we all share - our mortality rate is at 100%,😁😁 yet we often neglect to plan for it.

28/07/2026

Voluntary assisted dying ( VAD) is again in the news rwgarding access to telehealrg options for riral and remote individuals. Wherever you sit in this often debated option.. the below link probides great good for thought.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbJNHhDElSr/?igsh=MXh1ZXVoNGV1YzFueA==

22/07/2026

Its so great to see more and more options for end of life, especially if reducing your environmental impact was important to you during your life, you can continue that legacy in your end of life wishes and planning.
Hopefully in the near future an Australian company will take over production of these coffins and urns to reduce the impact- and perhaps the price.



https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19KLvoQ377/

🍄‍🟫 MASSIVE NEWS FOR AUSTRALIA. 🍄⚰️ Mushroom coffins are on their way!

Made by a Biotech startup in the Netherlands, these 'Loop Living Cucoons' have been around for a few years overseas - US, Canada, UK. They're GROWN from mycelium, the underground root network of MUSHROOMS. H**p fibres are involved too.

It takes seven days to grow a coffin, and they self-compost, which is very cool!

⚱️🍄 Mushroom-grown urns are also available. (Shroud bearers too.)

The price point in Australia is going to be interesting. And whether they're imported or grown here. (I'm 99% sure they'll be imported, which kinda negates any environmental advantages of using a mushroom coffin. It's a lot of carbon miles from the Netherlands to Australia!) And I wonder how many funeral directors will jump on board ... or not. So many questions. 🧐

Watch this space. I'll do some homework and get back to you next week.

Is a mushroom coffin something you'd consider? If so, you know where to write the wish down, don't you? 😉

xLisa
Author and mushroom fan!

20/07/2026

Talking about Death and dying doesn't bring it closer - it will however make it lighter - knowledge and conversation remove the element of fear -for it's in the silence that our fear grows.
Come and have a conversation with us.

Rod and Kellie are so excited to have you there.

18/07/2026

Research shows that we spend a mere 5% of our final days with medical professionals, leaving 95% to with loved ones and our carers.

Death is not just a medical event.
It's not a journey that happens inside hospital walls.
It's not a tick and flick task on someones to-do list.
It is a human experience that will impact all of us - possibly long before our own death does.

What if we take away the fear and uncertainty around death and dying ?
What if nearing the end of your life and needing your community wasn't seen as a burden - or something to feel bad about?
What if death and dying was less of a medical event and more about community stepping in?



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15/07/2026

Let's start the conversation...

13/07/2026

📢📢Mid North Coast Grief and End of Life Collective are hosting A Dying to Know Day event. 📢📢

Dying to Know Day is a national Australian initiative held each year on 8 August that encourages people and communities to talk openly about death, dying, and grief. Its purpose is to build death literacy — helping everyday people feel more confident, informed, and connected when facing end‑of‑life issues.

When: 8 August 2026 @2:30 pm
Where: Port Mac library

Bookings can be made via the library website or email : [email protected]

02/07/2026

Welcome to the Grief & End of Life Collective – Mid North Coast.
We’re Kellie and Rod, and we’ve created this space to gently open up conversations that most of us were never taught how to have — about grief, loss, dying, and the end of life.

We believe that building death literacy is an act of community care. When we understand what happens at the end of life, what choices we have, and how to support one another through loss, everything becomes a little less frightening and a lot more human.

Grief isn’t only about death or divorce. It shows up in the everyday losses too — the loss of pets, jobs, relationships, identity, health, routines, and the versions of ourselves we’ve had to let go. Loss touches every part of life, and talking about it helps us feel less alone.

This group is here to:
- Share resources on grief, end‑of‑life care, and death literacy
- Find local events, workshops, and community gatherings
- Ask questions about dying, caring, funerals, vigils, and support
- Normalise conversations about death and loss
- Build connection with others who want to approach these topics with honesty and compassion

Every one of us will face loss. Every one of us will die. When we learn together, talk openly, and support one another, we make these experiences softer, kinder, and more grounded.

We’re really glad you’re here.