Getting More Comfortable with Death and Grief

Written By Susan MacLeod
 

As part of the Hospice Halifax lecture series, Mary Ellen Macdonald gave a public presentation to an engaged audience in April 2025. The title was, "Getting More Comfortable with Death and Grief: Taboos, Stigmas and Ways Forward." Cartoonist Susan MacLeod captured snippets from the event in these drawings.

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Susan MacLeod

Susan MacLeod is a Nova Scotian artist writing and drawing about health care issues. Her humorous book, Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care, follows her nine-year journey shepherding her mother through a callous long-term care system. This inspired her interest in end-of-life and grief issues.

https://www.susanmacleod.ca/
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