Your dad has failed his driving test and is on your front porch crying. Mom is in the early stages of dementia living alone in her home, and she’s refusing to move to a safer situation. These are actual scenarios from the life of Catharine DeLong, hospice chaplain, music thanatologist, end-of-life educator and consultant. Catharine will guide us in exploring ways we can help those we love and even ourselves become more comfortable with the truth that our time on this earth is finite. Death tends to be perceived as a space of darkness and fear, when it could be a huge expansive miraculous event. We’ll discuss making good decisions, and having meaningful conversations now rather than later. It actually feels good to talk about what is real. Come find out. 

Light meal provided.

Cost: $25 per person; cash or pay with Venmo here.

Location: Bridgehaven, Midway. Reserve your spot here!

Catharine DeLong is a certified Music Thanatologist, hospice chaplain, and end-of-life educator based in Salt Lake City. She tends to the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of palliative patients and their loved ones with harp and voice. Catharine is a graduate of the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. She wrote and performed the original score for EPIPHANY, a short film released January 2023 by the Colors in Motion audio visual group.