LkLadyPod #59 Jennifer Moran Stritch, Thanatologist: Let's Talk About Death, Baby

<p>Happy Halloween! This month we're joined by thanatologist and Death Café host Jennifer Moran-Stritch. Jennifer is a lecturer at the Technological University of the Shannon in Limerick. The focus of her teaching is in personal development, therapeutic group work skills, and loss and grief for the caring professional. In addition to lecturing, Jennifer is the primary principal investigator of the Loss and Grief Research Group which is part of Social Sciences ConneXions Research Institute at TUS.  She also teaches on the RCSI/Irish Hospice MSc in Loss and Bereavement and is a certified thanatologist and the current Irish representative to the Association for the Study of Death and Society. In 2015, Jennifer co-hosted the first Death Café event in the Limerick area, where people gather to eat cake, drink coffee and tea and celebrate our mortality.</p> <p>She is a steering group member of the Global Dying Well Initiative and one of the founders of the Limerick Bereavement Network.</p> <p>In this podcast we look at global funeral rituals and traditions; Irish attitudes toward death; how long is too long to try and hold on to the memory of somebody; and whether modern technology is helping or hindering the natural healing process of grief. </p> <p>Follow Jennifer on Facebook at Death Cafe Limerick, reach her by email at deathcafelimerick@gmail.com and she's also findable on the TUS website at <a href= "https://www.TUS.ie">www.TUS.ie</a> </p> <p>Find tickets to Ann's/The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra's gig as part of Comhluadar's Féile Na Samhna at <a href= "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/comhluadarluimnigh/1034259?fbclid=IwAR2JHetdnFK2k3W-4CMA65o8gqGoldG_8Eck2K6XzFbclLqifl3HG63V5OE"> https://www.tickettailor.com/events/comhluadarluimnigh/1034259?fbclid=IwAR2JHetdnFK2k3W-4CMA65o8gqGoldG_8Eck2K6XzFbclLqifl3HG63V5OE</a> </p> <p>Check out all of Lumen Street Theatre's Samhain Festival events at <a href= "https://samhain.lumenstreettheatre.ie/">https://samhain.lumenstreettheatre.ie/</a> </p> <p>The Limerick Lady is a gra