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What words or phrases did you grow up learning to use when talking about someone who has died? What words/phrases are used in society where you live?

After creating a list of those words and /or phrases pause…take three conscious breaths.

When you feel ready replace those words or phrases with : dying, died, death, they are dying, they have died, and death came to them.

Feel free to share what or if anything feels different using death, dead, and dying.

As always take care of yourself. Share what feels right to you. Anything and everything you feel is right and perfectly human.

With gentle hauntings,

My first remembered experience with brings me back to a young age. The death of one of my Grandfathers…he was not a biological Grandfather but I remember him being Santa for a Christmas or two (or maybe that’s just from watching a old VHS recording of the holiday). Either way I remember him just being gone and then a brief memory of walking down an isle with people crying to brown shiny box where he lay inside. I do not have any memory of being afraid just curious as to why he was in the box with soft lights around him. Then the memory fades and I have nothing else. This brief memory is now one of many a funeral and death I have attended in this lifetime, and it is the earliest I can recall-how precious.

As we move through the month of October we approach a time when cultures and places around the world become a little closer with death. From Halloween, Samhain and to Dias de los Muertos death is celebrated and acknowledged in different ways.

Octobers discussion topic: In what ways do you or have you considered celebrating, acknowledging, or befriending the dead, death, or dying?

Welcome to the Death Kin Commons! Where all things death and dying are encouraged to be shared and discussed.

Each month The Death Kin will be sharing a prompt of some sort about death, dying, or grief-take this as an invitation to dive into your curiosity as is fitting for you.

This months (September 2025) prompt/topic is to ponder what you remember as your first experience with death or dying. As always share what you feel comfortable with or hold your space and listen in as others share experiences, stories, memories, and thoughts.

Be kind to yourself and others

Gently -Rose at The Death Kin