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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We need to name the reality to not be unconsciously ignorant,” Florian asserted. “We don’t like these topics because we live in a death-denying society,” she said.Assisted by the audience, she offered a list of popular sayings to make her point: “dead-drunk dead-broke don’t knock him dead dead-tired.”“We use the word all the time, until the person dies,” she noted, “and then we can’t even say the word, and we use other words such as expire, lost, gone, passed, pass away.” The audience again offered examples, from poetic (“crossing the river circling the drain”) to humorous (“took a dirt nap came to room temperature”).Then came the reality check. Xavier University.“We are here to talk about things no one wants to talk about,” she noted as she opened her presentation “The Trouble with Transitions,” at the Hilton Hotel, adjacent to the Anaheim Convention Center.As an expert in thanatology, or the study of death and grief, she observed that people often make negative comments about what she does. Walk with people all the way to their resurrection,” said Florian, an adjunct professor at Loyola University of Chicago, Dominican University and St. ![]() 22 workshop at the Religious Education Congress.“The message we want to give is that God is faithful, that we have a God of life, not death and we all go through trials, with resurrection on the other side. Accompanying grieving people all the way to resurrection was suggested by bereavement consultant Amy Florian during her Feb. ![]()
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