A friend shared this on the facebook. If you have 70 minutes to spare, well worth a watch. Incredible man, following a beautiful vocation…
Synopsis: Griefwalker is a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film, directed by Tim Wilson and produced in 2008. It is a lyrical, poetic portrait of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with dying people.
Filmed over a twelve year period, Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses, in counseling sessions with dying people and their families, and in meditative and often frank exchanges with the film’s director about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die, while paddling a birch bark canoe.
A few of the themes appearing in the film: Where does our culture’s death phobia come from? Is there such a thing as good dying? How is it that grief could be a skill instead of an affliction? Who are the dead to us? How can seeing your life’s end be the beginning of your deep love of being alive?
Just in case the image link fails – the movie can be accessed here.
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Reblogged this on Sue Vincent – Daily Echo and commented:
Definitely one to watch.
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Thank you, Sue. Much appreciated. 🙂 xx
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🙂 xx
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Reblogged this on Chronicles of an Orange-Haired Woman! and commented:
A must-read post and a wonderfully thought-provoking film. Thanks to Running Elk for bringing this to our attention.
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Thank you, Ali. 🙂
I feel it’s a message so much needed, lost as many are in their desire to cheat, avoid, and defer death at all costs… xx
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I absolutely agree – and have written a long journal piece on that very subject which I may well eventually turn into a blog post. xxx
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I look forward to that. 🙂 xx
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Reblogged this on Stuart France.
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Thanks Stuart. Much appreciated. 🙂 xx
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Reblogged this on Kate McClelland.
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Thank you, Kate. Really appreciated. 🙂 xx
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Thank you so much for sharing this. Having now read your lovely and touching words, I am going to watch the film itself. xxx
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Thanks, Ali. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 😀 xx
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I found the film incredible: Moving, beautiful, thought-provoking and confronting. I am so glad you shared it with a wider audience. Thank you. xxx
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You are more than welcome, Ali. Tis a topic close to my heart, and was only glad to pass it along. 🙂 xx
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