My Social Work journey through death and the afterlife by Dr Michele T. Knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife Developing Social Work practice skills to support the dying and their carers who experience transcendent phenomena en-us 2016-09-11 05:27:28 UTC 2025-09-25 13:01:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/130385772/9c10734111b2af7cfa48ca201d1dee37/images_passage_to_invisible_city.jpg One of my favourite quotes from E.M. Forster, British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123373064
"As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming.  I love death – not morbidly, but because He explains.  He shows me the emptiness of Money.  Death and Money are the eternal foes.  Not Death and Life … Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.  Behind the coffins and the skeletons that stay the vulgar mind lies something so immense that all that is great in us responds to it."                                                                                                                                                                           Howards End, 2002, Dover Publications]]> 2016-09-13 09:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123373064 A piece of work that I'm proud of: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123374080 2016-09-13 09:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123374080 A monthly event I run: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123374809 Death Cafe Marrickville:]]> 2016-09-13 09:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123374809 A Social Work practitioner and author who inspires me: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123375667 2016-09-13 09:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123375667 My Facebook pages: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123376447 Death Cafe Marrickville:
https://www.facebook.com/deathcafemarrickville]]> 2016-09-13 09:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123376447 My blog site: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123376752 Amicus Mortis:
http://www.amicusmortis.com.au/]]> 2016-09-13 09:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123376752 My website: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123376897 Ways of Being:
http://www.waysofbeing.com.au/]]> 2016-09-13 09:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123376897 One of my favourite poems, "The Ship", Henry van Dyke, 1904: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123377749
                                     The Ship
  
I am standing upon the seashore.  A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.  She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to meet and mingle with each other.  Then someone at my side says, “There, she is gone!” 
                                 
 “Gone where?”
 
Gone from my sight, that is all.
 
She is just as large in the mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination.  Her diminished size is in me, and not in her.
And just at that moment, when someone as my side says, “There! She’s gone!” there are other eyes that are watching for her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout:
 
                              “There she comes!”
 
... and that is dying. 

]]> 2016-09-13 09:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123377749 My Learning Plan: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123378162 2016-09-13 10:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123378162 The art of critical reflection: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123378866 "We listen not only with our ears, but with our eyes, mind, heart and imagination, as well. We listen to what is going on within ourselves, as well as to what is taking place in the person we are hearing. We listen to the words of the other, but we also listen to the messages buried in the words. We listen to the voice, the appearance, and the body language of the other... We simply try to absorb everything the speaker is saying verbally and non-verbally without adding, subtracting, or amending."

             McWhinney, I.R. (2009) Textbook of Family Medicine, Oxford University Press
]]> 2016-09-13 10:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123378866 My Facebook pages: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123382566 Salon de Mort:
https://www.facebook.com/salondemort/

]]> 2016-09-13 10:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123382566 A podcast that has inspired me: "More to dying than meets the eye", Martha Atkins: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123382978 http://thecaregiverspace.org/more-to-dying-than-meets-the-eye/

]]> 2016-09-13 10:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123382978 A quote I like: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123386874 2016-09-13 10:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123386874 A journal article I'm proud of: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123387155 "Encounter with grace"]]> 2016-09-13 11:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123387155 An image that inspires me:   michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123388386 "Night and her train of stars", Edward Robert Hughes:]]> 2016-09-13 11:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/123388386 Dia de los muertos: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124502875 November 1st is Mexico's Day of the Dead:]]> 2016-09-17 07:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124502875 michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124502957 2016-09-17 07:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124502957 Cats: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503188 For no other reason than I love them:]]> 2016-09-17 07:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503188 Skulls: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503291 For no other reason than I find them fascinating:

]]> 2016-09-17 07:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503291 A group I belong to: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503340 Palliative Care Social Workers Group:

]]> 2016-09-17 07:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503340 An independent piece of research I'm currently working on: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503766 "End-of-Life Phenomena: Exploring linkages between other-worldly experiences, deathbed narratives and Social Work practice."]]> 2016-09-17 07:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124503766 An organisation I support:  michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124504640 Dying with Dignity NSW:
http://www.dwdnsw.org.au/]]> 2016-09-17 08:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124504640 My Professional Memberships: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124541677 The Australian Association of Social Workers:
https://www.aasw.asn.au/

Spiritual Care Australia:
https://www.spiritualcareaustralia.org.au/

International Association for Near Death Studies:
http://iands.org/home.html]]> 2016-09-18 02:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124541677 A journal article I'm proud of: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124541826 "Au Revoir Papa: The Lived Experience of After-death Contact Phenomena"

]]> 2016-09-18 02:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/124541826 An event I attended:  michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/126142946 SYDNEY IDEAS: Dying re-imagined: Designing a better way to die, 6th October 2016:


]]> 2016-09-24 01:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/126142946 A movement that I support: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/126186771 2016-09-25 00:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/126186771 An abstract for an article which has just been accepted for a peer-review journal: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137113981
"Ways of Being: An Australian doctoral study exploring the existential relationship between bereavement, grief and after-death contact (ADC)" 

]]> 2016-11-12 03:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137113981 A wonderful piece of advice, courtesy of my Social Work placement Supervisor: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114054 The Social Work Toolbox.]]> 2016-11-12 03:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114054 An article that I related to: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114572 "Dangers lurk in the march towards a post-modern career"
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/dangers-lurk-in-the-postmodern-career-that-is-missing-job-security-20161017-gs3u5o.html

]]> 2016-11-12 04:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114572 An article I've found particularly useful: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114805 "Advancing Social Work Practice in end-of-life care"]]> 2016-11-12 04:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114805 An inspirational quote: michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114916 2016-11-12 04:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137114916 "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." Norman Cousins michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137115365 2016-11-12 04:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/137115365 A political movement I support:  michele_knight https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/334500774 Voluntary Euthanasia Party:]]> 2019-02-24 01:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/michele_knight/Death_Afterlife_EndofLife/wish/334500774