Death is something every one of us will encounter, yet it can be one of the most difficult things to talk about. We may carry fears, uncertainties and unanswered questions, or simply not know where to begin. Often, we don’t explore these things until we are faced with a death or bereavement ourselves.

Living Well – Dying Well is a six-week community series offering a welcoming space to explore death, dying, funeral planning and the choices available to us. Through sharing information, inviting questions and opening up honest conversations, we hope to help lessen fear, increase understanding and support people to feel more informed and empowered.

Join us for our first session, Talking About Death, where we’ll gently explore our relationship with death and the reasons it can feel so difficult to talk about.

Together, we’ll open up conversations around:

Why is death such a difficult subject in our society?

What fears, beliefs or stories do we carry about death and dying?

How can talking about death help us feel more prepared and less afraid?

What questions have we always wanted to ask but haven’t known who to ask?

How can we begin to bring conversations about death, dying and our wishes back into our everyday lives and communities?

There will be a little information and gentle reflection, alongside plenty of space for questions, conversation and shared curiosity. You are welcome to listen, share as much or as little as feels comfortable, and bring your questions without needing to have any prior knowledge or experience.

This is not about having all the answers or needing to prepare for death in a particular way. It’s about making space for a subject that touches all of our lives, in a way that feels human, accessible and supportive.

Who is this for?

Everyone is welcome. You might be thinking about your own future wishes, supporting someone who is approaching the end of their life, navigating bereavement, or simply wanting to understand more about death and dying. You don’t need to be experiencing a bereavement to attend.

About your hosts

Lucy Lord is the founder of the Sacred Death Centre, a Soul Midwife and a Certified Grief Recovery Method® Specialist. Her work centres on bringing death, dying and grief back into our homes, communities and everyday lives.

Nicky Sutton is a funeral director, funeral celebrant and Grief Coach based in Somerset. She supports people to understand their options, make informed choices and create meaningful farewells.

Together, Lucy and Nicky bring complementary experience, practical knowledge and a shared passion for creating a healthier, more open culture around death and dying.

Practical information

📅 Tuesday 3rd November 2026
🕥 Arrival from 10:45am | Starting promptly at 11am
🕐 Finish at 1pm
📍 Pilgrims Reception Centre, Glastonbury High Street
💚 By donation, from £3

Spaces for this group are limited to 8.

This is the first of six weekly sessions. You are welcome to attend individual sessions according to your interests and availability; you do not need to commit to the whole series.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Let’s make space for the conversations that matter.

Much Love, 

Lucy & Nicky

The six-week series

Week 1 – Talking About Death
Opening up conversations, exploring our fears and beliefs, and becoming more comfortable talking about death.

Week 2 – Planning for Goodbye
Exploring funeral wishes, planning ahead, understanding our choices and communicating our wishes to those we love.

Week 3 – What Happens When Someone Dies?
Understanding the practical steps following a death, including who to contact, registration and the choices available to families.

Week 4 – Caring for the Body
Exploring what happens to the body after death, including washing and dressing, spending time with the person who has died, and the possibilities of caring for someone at home.

Week 5 – Creating a Meaningful Goodbye
Discovering the different possibilities for funerals and ceremonies, including music, ritual, burial, cremation and ways to honour a person’s life.

Week 6 – Living With Death, Loss & Grief
Exploring grief as a natural response to loss, how we can support ourselves and others, and how we can build more compassionate communities around grief.

Each session will have its own event listing, so you can choose the conversations that feel most relevant to you.

Sunday 8th November | 2pm–8pm | Glastonbury

At this time of year, when we traditionally turn towards the ancestors and honour those who have come before us, we will gather as a village to make space for the grief we carry, grief for those we have loved and lost, for what has changed, and for the many things that have shaped our lives.

Grief has never been something we were meant to carry alone.

This will be a gentle, non-judgemental space where we can come together to acknowledge our losses, connect with what lives within us, and remember the love and belonging held within our grief.

We will begin with gentle practices to help us arrive in our bodies and prepare for the ritual, including somatic movement, breathwork and guided movement with Sacred Oils, followed by a journalling shuttle practice to help us connect with and explore what is present for us.

From there, Eartha Love and Jason Kalidas will guide us into a deeper heart centred ritual through the ancient musical tradition of Raag, prayerful meditation and sound.

Sounds of the Beloved
Eartha and Jason have lovingly created this offering around the ancient wisdom of Raag. A profound musical tradition in which sound is used to evoke and explore different emotional qualities and to create a space for connection with the heart and the divine.

This is an invitation to listen, to feel and to be held in the shared experience of sound.

Raag has its roots in ceremonial traditions of India, with each Raag carrying its own melodic structure and emotional quality. The intention is to bring musicians and listeners together into Raasa, the shared essence of emotion and feeling.

Jason will play the Bansuri, a low-pitched bamboo flute, accompanied by the rich soundscape of Tanpuras and harmonic drone instruments, creating an atmosphere in which we can soften, listen and turn towards the heart.

Poetic meditations and intentional prayers from Eartha’s living gospel of love will weave through the evening, offering invitations to move beyond the busy mind and into a deeper experience of presence and connection.

“Grief has never been private, it has always been communal. Grieving, by its very nature, requires the presence of others. Through that gathering, we begin to remember the depth of our belonging and the healing power of community.”

— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

Coming together as a village
At the Sacred Death Centre, we believe that grief is not a problem to be fixed or something we need to hurry through.

Grief is one of the ways we experience love, connection and change.

Gathering together gives us an opportunity to remember that we belong to one another, that there is space for sorrow alongside beauty, for tears alongside laughter, and for remembrance alongside the living.

You do not need to have a particular kind of grief to attend.

You may be grieving someone who has died, a relationship that has changed, a chapter of life that has ended, or simply carrying a sorrow that needs somewhere to be witnessed.

Come exactly as you are.

We look forward to sharing this sacred time with you.

Much Love,
Lucy, Hannah, Ellise, Eartha & Jason