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Dr Abby Buckley | Eco Coffin Project
What is a sustainable death?
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Dr Abby Buckley is a community educator and social ecologist who finds guidance and inspiration from nature on how to positively integrate death in our ordinary everyday while we are vitally alive. Her research focus, during her PhD thesis, was on using collaborative creative practices to disrupt the life/death binary through a sustainability lens. She is the founder and facilitator of the Eco Coffin Project which is a community program in Gawler, South Australia, that raises awareness of ecological body disposition options such as natural burial and human composting and explores the question: What is a sustainable death? Other community services include facilitating Death Cafes and a mobile Before I Die wall. Abby learned how our Australian death and funeral system works during her time at Adelaide Cemeteries and then as a Funeral Celebrant. She is driven by the vision of all Australians understanding how our death system works so they know what is possible and can then make meaningful informed eco-friendly decisions for their own death or when supporting others.
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How long have you been offering these services?
2019
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PhD thesis: Creative practices for becoming with death while vitally alive, Cert IV Training and Assessment, MEd-Social Ecology
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The Eco Coffin Project highlighted a vast array of topics and gave me a lot of information on a subject that has previously been difficult to talk about. The entire project has been instrumental in giving me the understanding and guidance to make informed decisions and has been an irreplaceable experience.
Eco Coffin Project: Irreplaceable experience / Kerry DellarI highly recommend the Eco Coffin Project. Book in quick! It sold out quickly last time for a reason.
I highly recommend the Eco Coffin Project. / Deb GriffithsMy kids think it a huge joke that I'm preparing my own coffin and just ask that I keep a screwdriver taped to the flat pack box to make assembly easier for them. Joking aside, it has opened up conversations with them and I have been able to tell them my wishes for after my death and it is now not being treated as ‘we can’t talk about that'.
My kids think it a huge joke preparing my coffin / Jan AbelIt was a wonderful opportunity to learn from others. The visits to the Natural Burial Grounds were a great experience and Abby Buckley’s knowledge, presentations and selections of guest speakers for this course was on point.
Natural Burial Ground site visits / Marie KibbleThe workshop covers all ages. Consider it even if you’re young, because death doesn’t discriminate, it is something we all have in common.
The Eco Coffin Project covers all ages / Lynne SmithThe Eco Coffin Project is such a fantastic program. The knowledge of the speakers, the depth of wisdom and caring nature of our facilitator Abby really made it easy to talk about a subject that the majority shun away from. I would jump at the chance to do it again.
The Eco Coffin Project is such a fantastic program / Kathy AllenThe real gift for me was in the conversations I have had with people both in the workshops and with our wider community.
The real gift was in the conversations / Adelaide Secomb- Gawler, SA, 5118
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Dr Abby Buckley | Eco Coffin Project
What is a sustainable death?