DEATH IS THE MUSE! We present Death and Dying as central to the art of Life. Read about it, write about it, talk about it.

Welcome to a unique site where you will find extraordinary movies, books, essays, poems, paintings and photographs offering unique world views and personal commentaries on death and dying; where creative guest contributions provide an opportunity to move away from superstition, myth, fear, paralysis and barely coping to being transformed by the experience of accepting death; where, whether exposed in its everyday banality, captured under the harsh searchlight of truth, or illuminated in a glow of beauty, death reveals the measure of our humanity. We believe that the visual and written arts allow us to explore and develop a new therapeutic relationship with death and dying thereby easing grief and enhancing the depth and direction of our lives dramatically, that we can further affirm ourselves as artists of life by creating a space of knowledge and insight around death and dying, and that embracing death's inevitability as grief therapy and as life skill is possible through the transformative nature of art.

Enter the realm of fascination inspired by THE GOOD CEMETERY GUIDE. In this contemporary novel, a guitar-playing, reluctant third-generation funeral director takes on death and destiny.

Join us on a journey of discovery into the practices of death and dying in the wider world beyond the fishing village of the novel as we explore cultural differences across the planet. Death is an unlikely dinner table subject in our modern day world; following our fictional hero's example, we take a fresh approach, facing death as we question its nature.

A STORY for the 2008 FESTIVE SEASON.
Peace Dove