Sunday Speaker Topic: Ericka Cameron - Embracing Your Mortality: Exploring End-of-Life Rights and Options
Description:
Death is universal and inevitable. Unless you have some secret immortality formula you haven’t shared, every one of us will die. Yet, the subject of death is seen as taboo by many. Americans went from caring for our dead in our homes to outsourcing deathcare to corporations. The privatization of deathcare has led to the funeral industrial complex– an unsustainable system wherein deathcare is profit-centered rather than human-centered, harmful to the environment, and access to quality deathcare is socially stratified.
The Order of the Good Death believes deaths should be supported—financially, emotionally, and culturally—in ways our modern culture and death services often fail to do. Over the past decade, The Order has fostered a national dialogue calling attention to the funeral industrial complex and the ways it impacts the public’s rights to care for their dead.
Join us to learn about the history of the Death Positive movement and how to navigate your end-of-life rights and options in a death-phobic society.
Bio:
Ericka Cameron is the Development Director and Project Coordinator at The Order of the Good Death. As one of the two staff members who make up The Order of the Good Death, she wears many hats but is most proud of helping to build a supportive and inclusive death-positive community with people around the world. Ericka received her Master’s in Sociology from Wichita State University in 2018 and is currently working on her Doctorate in Change Leadership for Equity and Inclusion at The University of Central Arkansas. When she isn’t working or studying, Ericka enjoys playing board games with her husband, Adam, and snuggling with their four rescue cats. Meow.
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