website. It may also be purchased or Review and implement as appropriate for borrowed from a public library. your group and space. Preparation Opening (5 minutes) Invite a medical professional with Light the chalice and share these words from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 20 (NRSV): experience in end-of-life medicine, palliative care, and hospice care to explain some For everything there is a season, and a time common end-of-life medical choices. for every matter under heaven: Read resources listed in Handout 1, a time to be born, and a time to die; Looking Ahead to Workshop 7, from a time to plant, and a time to pluck up Workshop 6. what is planted; Post Our Covenant from Workshop 1. Customize and make copies of Handout 1, a time to kill, and a time to heal; Looking Ahead to Workshop 8 for all a time to break down, and a time to participants. build up; Download from the National Hospice and a time to weep, and a time to laugh; Palliative Care Organization website and make copies. a time to mourn, and a time to dance; Obtain copies of the for all participants. a time to throw away stones, and a time Order them (at a small cost) from the Aging to gather stones together; with Dignity website. a time to embrace, and a time to refrain Obtain a copy of "" or make plans to stream from embracing; it from the PBS website. a time to seek, and a time to lose; Test equipment and speakers; queue and preview the segment (17:13-23:36) of "." a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
website. It may also be purchased or borrowed from a public library. Preparation Invite a medical professional with experience in end-of-life medicine, palliative care, and hospice care to explain some common end-of-life medical choices. Read resources listed in Handout 1, Looking Ahead to Workshop 7, from Workshop 6. Post Our Covenant from Workshop 1. Customize and make copies of Handout 1, Looking Ahead to Workshop 8 for all participants. Download from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization website and make copies. Obtain copies of the for all participants. Order them (at a small cost) from the Aging with Dignity website. Obtain a copy of "" or make plans to stream it from the PBS website. Test equipment and speakers; queue and preview the segment (17:13-23:36) of "." Review and implement as appropriate for your group and space. Opening (5 minutes) Light the chalice and share these words from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 20 (NRSV): For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
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