Life and Death (Congress and Mass)
Life and Death is a mixture of a specialist congress , lectures for private visitors and an accompanying trade fair on the subjects of life, dying, death and mourning. The organizer is Messe Bremen .
concept
Since 2009, the life and death event has taken place annually on two days in May in the Bremen City Hall, in two exhibition halls with approx. 5000 m² of exhibition space with around 130 exhibitors. The exhibitors are made up of non-profit associations, associations, self-help groups and commercial companies.
The specialist congress is aimed at full-time employees and volunteers from the hospice , palliative care , pastoral care and grief counseling . It takes place on both days and offers around 60 lectures and workshops . Life and Death also offers private visitors the opportunity to obtain comprehensive information on topics such as living wills, forms of burial, hospice support and offers for mourning.
Advisory Board
The contents of the specialist congress are developed in an advisory board; whose members are:
- German Hospice and Palliative Care Association (DHPV)
- Hospice and Palliative Care Association Bremen
- Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Lower Saxony
- State Labor Association for Hospice and Palliative Work Hamburg (LVHP)
- German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP)
- Bremen Evangelical Church
- Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover
- Diocese of Osnabrück
- Löwenherz Children's Hospice, Syke near Bremen
- Association for Inner Mission Lebenshaus
- Bremer Heimstiftung
- German Professional Association for Nursing Professions (DBfK)
- Gesundheit Nord , Klinikum Links der Weser
- Friedrich-Verlag ( maintain: palliative )
- Undertaker Association Bremen
- Board of Trustees for German Funeral Culture
- Working group cemetery and memorial
- Federal Association for Grief Counseling
Speakers
So far the speakers have included a .:
- Margot Käßmann
- Henning Scherf
- Franz Müntefering
- Eckart von Hirschhausen
- Bärbel Schäfer
- Susanne Conrad
- Markus Majowski
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin