Support for Aging & Dealing with Mortality
Growing Old Gracefully & Confidently
We are all aging and mortal human beings. As a caring community with a wide diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and ages, we have members who are good models of aging and dealing with mortality.
We invite you to visit us for one or more of these benefits:
- meeting people who model successful aging
- finding answers to your questions about aging
- finding meaning in your life
- dealing with the fear of dying
- exploring beliefs about the afterlife
- exploring options for your aging parents
- resources for your children on death and dying (see Religious Education)
- ministerial counseling and referrals
- there are no financial/payment requirements for visitors - come and learn what we're all about
Additional Information
Here are some ideas about aging and our mortality from local congregations and our national network:
Successful Aging - Sermon asks "What does successful aging look like and how do people realize it?" and it quotes studies
Love and Death: Facing cancer with lessons learned... - Sermon deals with pending death - "I must face the certainty that my cancer is terminal..." The minister shares "...what I have learned about love and death"
Talk About Dying Won't Kill You - Sermon about end of life issues.
In 1988, Unitarian Universalists passed a national resolution favoring aid in dying for the terminally ill who are suffering, becoming the first religious body to affirm a right to die. Our congregations have plans that help you make decisions.
Social Justice Resolutions about Aging from the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations of which all of our congregations are members.
