by Amanda C Vesty | May 10, 2022 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Death, History & Culture, Sacred and Divine, superstitions
Ah puch is an extremely fearsome deity usually depicted as a skeleton, often with rotting flesh. He is also known as Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil. In the Quechua language Cimi means “Death” and Cizin “The Flatulent One”...
by Amanda C Vesty | Mar 10, 2022 | Community, Death, Environment, Final Resting Places
Dawn de Vivre, In Loving Memory On the day my beautiful friend Dawn De Vivre (formerly Dr Dawn Gibbins MBE) died, in the early hours I awoke to hear a bird singing extraordinarily loudly outside my window. As morning broke after her death, the day dawned bright and...
by Jean Francis | Feb 26, 2022 | Community, Death, Environment, Grief
In Loving Memory of Dawn De Vivre/Dr Dawn Gibbins MBE… It is with great sadness that our beloved co-founder of Last Wishes has crossed the threshold. Many of Dawn’s activities revolved around the power of numerology, and it was significant that on 22/2/22 at...
by Amanda C Vesty | Nov 19, 2021 | Art of Death and Life, Death, End of Life Planning, Environment, Funerals, Last Wishes Tea House Guest Lectures, Trees The Green Legacy
The Last Wishes Tea House End Of Life Guest Lectures Cradle To Grave, AKA Cath and Tosh, are alternative people who provide alternative choices for funerals. Cradle to Grave first started producing baskets in the early 90’s but have been making coffins since 2004....
by Amanda C Vesty | Nov 17, 2021 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Death, Last Wishes Tea House Guest Lectures
The Last Wishes Tea House End Of Life Guest Lectures Last Wishes hosts guest lectures on a wide range of subjects surrounding end of life in the Last Wishes Tea House. About Dr Piero Calvi-Parisetti Piero Calvi-Parisetti is a medical doctor, scientist, former...
by Amanda C Vesty | Nov 11, 2021 | Ceremony, Death, Grief
In honour of Remembrance Day and all those who have died in the line of duty. We at Last Wishes honour all those who died in service and in sacrifice. Old Soldier Listen old soldier Wherever you are The hills or the valleys Come near or come far They say youth is a...