Showing care and support

Putting time and effort into creating a special occasion, is one way we can show our care and support for others.

A celebration may be for people we know on a personal level or people on our local communities, or perhaps even for people we have not met before.

Paul 'Feisty' Hassing Founder & Senior Writer @ The Feisty Empire explains: "We drop everything to attend the funeral of someone we love. Whatever our commitments, we work around them, because there's only ever one official opportunity to mourn with others who knew the beloved.

Getting time off work, postponing holidays, rescheduling meetings and so on can be difficult and inconvenient, but we do it. We go to great pains to 'celebrate' death; why not do the same to celebrate life?"

Paul has termed a gathering to celebrate friendships before they are dissolved by death, a liferal.

On his website, Paul describes such a gathering, his friends organised at a particulalry difficult time in his life. His 'liferal' was a turning point - as he describes "a heady experience indeed. Mine turned me round and made me focus on all I had, not what I didn't. Apart from my wedding, it was the best day of my life.

Coming of Teen-Age and Coming of Age are times for showing how much our society cares about its young people. Adolsecence is a time of great change and of huge challenges.

Families may engage a celebrant to work with them to design a personal ceremony to support their teenager through these transitions.

The Civil Celebrations Network (CCN) Inc notes non-Australian born people receive a Citizenship Ceremony whereas Australian born do not. The CCN has proposed that a Coming of Citizenship Age ceremony be used a a community support rite of passage for all Australians turning 18 years. The CCN welcomes feedback and community support for its proposal - email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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