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DYING
FOR
LIFE
Dying for Life organises events that offer information, art, ideas and conversation about dying and death which may well have an impact on the way we choose to live our lives.
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Things to do
when you're dead
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Activities, art, games, interaction
Find out how to save seven people’s lives
Spend a year teaching medical students
Use your brain for scientific research
Tell archaeologists about your life
Spend time in a hand build barrow
Nurture a woodland
Become a gemstone
Inspire an artist
Post on social media
Leave a legacy… and more
Find out how - come to our free event. Also on the day will be...
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Timed activities:
Behind the scenes tour of the crematorium 12pm, 2pm, 4pm (booking opens April 2019 online)
Join in “Gravestones and dry bones” board game from Cally Trench 1pm, 2pm
Workshop "From Selfies to Runes, how will we be remembered?" 3pm
DeathProv - Comedy Improvisation on death from Stealing the Show 4pm
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Also:
Handle human bones
Try a cardboard coffin out for size
Play a giant game of "Operation"
Talk to forensic pathologist Dr Wendy Birch, winner of a death oscar!
Photos of wonderful complexity of human bones by Susan Elaine Jones
Try observational drawing of human bones with artist Lisa Temple-Cox
Talk to archaeologists about what they have learnt of previous Cambridge residents
Share your own stories for posterity with the Tracing Traditions Museum project
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Displays and information from:
Woodland Wishes Natural Burial and Cremation Services
Sacred Stones Willow Row Barrow
Stained Glass Artist Annette Jackson
University of Cambridge Human Anatomy Teaching Group
Cambridge Brain and Tissue bank at Addenbrookes' Hospital
Information on organ donation, and other after death options
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Check out more things to find out about, and fun ways to talk about death
to your friends and family using these handy death wish donor cards!
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A short video from That's Cambridge TV talking about the events
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WHEN
Saturday
18th May 2019
Noon til 5pm
WHERE
Cambridge City Crematorium
West Chapel
Huntingdon Rd access or A14 junction towards Dry Drayton, then follow signposts
Cambridge, CB3 0JJ
Getting here:
Follow postcode CB3 0JJ to the City Crematorium, access via Huntingdon Road and new access road from Cambridge, or take the A14 junction towards Dry Drayton, and turn left at the roundabout following signs to the Crematorium. Ample free parking.
Cycle 20 minutes / 5 miles out of Cambridge on Cycle Route 51 up Huntingdon Road
Catch Citi 5 Bus from Christ's College to Cambridge Crematorium, leave every 20 minutes