The Sacredness of Death with Susan Oppie
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FEBRUARY 2025 WEBINAR OVERVIEW
If we are to flourish as a society, it is crucial that we reconnect with the sacredness of death, and heal this wound that has stunted our quality of life in far too many heart-breaking and soul-crushing ways to name here. Time is of the essence. The powers that be (eg military-, criminal-, media-, and medical- industrial complexes, to name a few) are causing us to drift ever further away from a meaningful relationship with both life and death. Simple death rituals may be one of the most powerful ways to help mend the chasm that keeps us in this debilitating void.
About Susan Oppie:
Susan Oppie worked as a registered nurse (RN) for more than 25 years, eleven of those years in Hospice and Palliative Care. In the early part of her career, she became aware of the United State’s morbid disconnect with death. She spent the following years trying to understand how the disconnect occurred, and what could be done to remedy the situation. She attended mortuary school, researched the history of the funeral industry, collected “memorial art”, and held memorial art workshops in public libraries and other venues to help open conversations around the taboo topic of Death. She also became involved in the National Home Funeral Alliance to educate and support families. In 2014, she and two other RNs, Rochelle Martin and Lynn Holzman, started One Washcloth (www.onewashcloth.org) to help bring back the art of deathbed ritual in a simple and nonthreatening way.
Additionally, after the violent gun-related death in 2012 of a hospice nurse colleague and friend, Susan became painfully aware of the devastating ripple effects accompanying homicides in communities, large and small. And has since made it her mission to take her conversation about the importance of reconnecting with death, via ritual, to a larger audience.
