Project to stimulate more open discussion about dying is rolled out to four sites
A MEMORIAL Garden project aimed at stimulating more open discussion about death and dying is returning to Edinburgh – and expanding into a series of events across eastern Scotland.
The installation was first created in Edinburgh two years ago. Individual notes of remembrance were displayed in a temporary garden of illuminated lillies in the Grassmarket as part of To Absent Friends, a festival which gave people the chance to celebrate and to reminisce about those we have lost.
Edinburgh Napier researchers worked on the idea with students and community groups following an NHS Education Scotland-backed study relating to issues surrounding death and bereavement.
Now, two years on, the idea has inspired a wider series of events in collaboration with the Scottish Partnership in Palliative Care.
Staff and students will be in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket from Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th November between 16:30 and 19:30, and members of the public will be able to pick up a lily at the King’s Stables Road end.
Once they have their lily, people are encouraged to write a message on the petal, switch it on to illuminate it and then plant their flower as a note of remembrance in the garden.
Similar installations are also appearing this year at the Main Tower Building at the University of Dundee on October 31, The Paxton Centre at Lundin Links on November 1 and the Margaret Kerr Unit at Haining House, Selkirk, on November 8.
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