Having the Conversation: What Are Their Wishes? What Are Yours?

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Facilitators: Hope Young, Advance Care Planning Coordinator for Kokua Mau (statewide care movement), Sheri Richard, and Kauai Rabbi Rob Kvidt.

The Conversation Project seeks “to have every person’s wishes for end-of-life care expressed and respected.” Join our facilitators as they present materials from the national program started by writer Ellen Goodman in 2010. Documents, practical tips, and support will be shared as congregants are given the tools to start this project for themselves and their loved ones. Advance Healthcare Directives for Hawai’i will also be explained as a way to document wishes. In addition, participants will understand this Kavod Conversation in light of Jewish traditional end-of-life practices. In a time of uncertainty due to COVID-19, understanding the importance of these conversations and documents can be reassuring for you and your loved ones

Like a Sukkah sheltering the People of Israel in uncertain times, the Chevra Kadisha enfolds our island Jewish community. Come explore and learn with us how the Chevra Kadisha supports the Jewish community, including rituals that guide us through the most challenging times, offering a pathway for embracing life fully, a companion through the process of integrating life’s inevitable losses, and doing it as one community together. — Holly Blue Hawkins.