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News to Know Now About Death, Dying and Funerals
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Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert
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Dateline: Albuquerque, NM
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

 

It’s been a busy news week for developments in funerals, death care, life celebrations, and body disposition. Check out these stories!

Seattle Times May 21, 2019: Washington becomes the first state to legalize human composting. The law also allows the use of alkaline hydrolysis, aka Aquamation, to reduce bodies to skeletal remains using a fraction of the energy of flame-based cremation. The law takes effect May 1, 2020.

JTA News Story May 13, 2019: Save the planet, don’t cremate says this Jewish cemetery. A new Jewish cemetery in South Florida is offering reasonably priced plots and emphasizes that Jewish burial is naturally green burial. Death expert Gail Rubin, who is Jewish and a member of Albuquerque’s chevra kadisha (burial society), is quoted in this article.

Gail Rubin caricature
Caricature of Gail Rubin in TERP Magazine.

University of Maryland TERP Magazine, Spring 2019: “Speaking of Death” Gail Rubin is an alum of the University of Maryland (’80). In this feature article, she reveals her roots as a pioneering death educator. It involves a film production class assignment that resulted in a satire of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film, The Seventh Seal.

AMA News, May 21, 2019: Talking about death: Now that it pays, how to do it well Timothy Smith, Senior News Writer for the American Medical Association, provides links to great resources to help doctors have advance care planning (ACP) conversations with their patients (now that Medicare pays them to have these talks).

June 1 Before I Die Bakersfield Festival News Coverage:

The excitement is building! Here are two news stories from Bakersfield TV stations about the upcoming one-day Before I Die Festival there.

23ABC News Bakersfield, May 13, 2019: Festival covering every facet of death coming to Bakersfield in June.

KGET.com, May 14, 2019: ‘Before I Die’ Festival hosted by Greenlawn Funeral Homes.

Death Investigations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Emmy Award®-winning show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver recently took on the topic of death investigations. Oliver provided a brilliant overview of the coroner system versus the medical examiner approach to investigating deaths. You will laugh and learn!

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Gail Rubin, CT, is author and host of the award-winning book and television series, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die, Hail and Farewell: Cremation Ceremonies, Templates and Tips, and KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die.

Rubin is a Certified Thanatologist (that's a death educator) and a popular speaker who uses humor and films to get the end-of-life and funeral planning conversation started. She "knocked 'em dead" with her TEDx talk, A Good Goodbye. She provides continuing education credit classes for attorneys, doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, financial planners, funeral directors and other professionals. She's a Certified Funeral Celebrant and funeral planning consultant who has been interviewed in national and local print, broadcast and online media.

Known as The Doyenne of Death®, she is the event coordinator of the Before I Die NM Festival. She also hosts A Good Goodbye Internet radio show and produces Mortality Minute radio and online video spots. Her YouTube Channel features more than 450 videos!

Rubin is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, Toastmasters International and the National Speakers Association New Mexico Chapter. Her speaking profile is available at eSpeakers.com.

Gail Rubin has been interviewed about funeral planning issues in national and local broadcast, print and online media. Outlets include The Huffington Post, Money Magazine, Kiplinger, CBS Radio News, WGN-TV,  and local affiliates for NPR, PBS, FOX, ABC-TV, CBS-TV and NBC-TV. Albuquerque Business First named her as one of their 2019 Women of Influence.

Sign up for a free planning form and occasional informative newsletter at her website, AGoodGoodbye.com.

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