Amy Cunningham is a New York funeral director and home funeral guide trained by Jerrigrace Lyons and Olivia Bareham. She was a magazine journalist for 35 years prior to her decision to go to mortuary school in 2009. She founded Fitting Tribute Funeral Services in 2016, and sustains the blog TheInspiredFuneral.com. She feels that legacy work and storytelling are an integral part of the hospice period and everyone’s funeral planning.
Sunday, 9am

Workshop B: Condolence Letter Writing as a Spiritual Practice

With death ever-present, condolence letters were mainstays of 19th-century life, missives of comfort written straight from the heart.  Amy Cunningham director and owner of Fitting Tribute Funeral Services in Brooklyn, New York will lead a fun and riveting study of great condolences by Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, Queen Victoria, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley and other literary figures to draw out the best lessons for modern letter writing. Participants will then review the principles of what sorts of messages heal, and which don't help.

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