Discuss Your Feelings About Death Next Month

PORTSMOUTH, NH - “Death: It’s no conversation killer. Drink coffee, eat cake, and discuss your inevitable demise.”

This is the tagline for a local Death Café, where community members meet in a supportive environment to discuss thoughts, feelings, and experiences with death. Hospice Help Foundation will host its third café next month, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 4, 2016,at the Portsmouth Public Library.

This time, they’ll welcome a speaker: Dr. Deborah Turiano - Certified Hospice Medical Director and trained facilitator for The Conversation Project and Respecting Choices - will talk briefly about Preparing for The Conversation: A Thoughtful Approach to Being Prepared for Advanced Illness.

This event is free and open to the public, though space is limited. RSVP before May 27, to Hospice Help Foundation, at 603-766-0444 or janet@hhelpfoundation.org.

Hospice Help Foundation is a non-profit which provides financial assistance to hospice patients and their families with dire financial need to improve their quality of life and ease the burdens accompanying a terminal diagnosis. Visit them online at hhelpfoundation.org, or on facebook as hospicehelpfoundation.

The Portsmouth Public Library works to serve the informational, educational and entertainment needs of the community. The library offers free materials, computers, WiFi, classes, exhibits, online resources, events and more. PPL was established in 1881. Find out more online at cityofportsmouth.com/library. Find events and news at facebook.com/pplnh.

Submitted by the Portsmouth Library.