"Our conversation will be about the importance of death education and why we need it in the postsecondary sector," says Srigley. "Each of the students will talk about how death education has impacted their lives, their university studies, and their future careers."
Professor Srigley's Instagram account @death.ambassadors chronicles her death teaching, courses, and students. Her students are called 'death ambassadors' because they are changing the conversation about death in our culture, she says.
For more info and to register for free, go here.
You can join for all or any part of the weekend-long programme of events and pick and choose the sessions you want to join.
Subjects range from designing your own coffin to a video game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home. It even includes a seminar on pet loss.
