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Join us at OMA's Annual Meeting, Sept. 16th!

7/23/2017

 
Our Annual Meeting is coming up and it promises to
be filled with topics of interest to us all. 

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Learn more about Gretchen here.


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This year's Guest Speaker is
end-of-life health care consultant:
 Gretchen Brauer-Rieke.
​She'll introduce us to the topic of engaging our loved ones in end-of-life planning through her talk entitled:

"The Best Gift You'll Ever Give -
Talking with Your Family"


Following that, we'll all discuss how to initiate conversations like this, along with a few related questions.

Then we'll learn how members and non-members alike can make their own plans with the help of "Alls Well That Ends Well." 


And that's just a beginning!  Please Join Us!
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Mortuary Provider Contract Termination: AAsum Dufour

7/23/2017

 

Albany's AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home has not been serving Oregon Memorial Association (OMA) members for several months at the current OMA member prices in effect statewide.  During that time we have negotiated in good faith, as required by our February 25, 2014 contract. In late June, after reviewing the new price list OMA is proposing, effective 1 September 2017, the Dufours gave notice they are still unwilling to offer such deep discounts to our members. The contract has been canceled by mutual agreement.

The Albany-Corvallis area formerly served by AAsum-Dufour is within the service area of Salem's Restlawn Funeral Home. Restlawn has been OMA's contract provider since October 2007.  OMA members who have filed their Personal Instruction Forms (PIFs) with AAsum-Dufour can continue to receive OMA member prices by asking AAsum-Dufour or OMA to transfer their PIFs to Restlawn. (Mileage charges will apply outside a 25-mile radius from Salem.)  If you haven't filled out a PIF, or want to change your original instructions, you can download a PIF packet HERE.

Please share your thoughts about Oregon geography vis a vis OMA contracts with funeral homes.  Tell us how this change will affect you.

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A message from Jon Underwood's wife...

7/6/2017

 
​This is a excerpt from a post in the Death Cafe website written by Donna Malloy, John's wife.
​John Underwood died in May, 2017. He was the founder of ​Death Cafe.
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As you all know the objective of Death Cafe is helping us all 'make the most of our finite lives'. With shocking poignancy on Sunday 25th June we experienced the finiteness of life at its most brutal. And more specifically the finiteness of the life of Jon Underwood, founder of Death Cafe, dad to two truly amazing children and my husband. He was 44.

Comfort is very hard to find right now, but there is some in the fact that, through his work helping people come to terms with the idea of death, Jon was uniquely and unusually aware that life is short and appreciated his life fully, reflecting on this through daily practice.  'Life is good Donna'  he would remind me regularly when I got lost in the challenges of the minutiae. I do this all the time, but Jon didn't. He lived every day reflecting very consciously on the fact that none of us know how long we have and focussed completely on being present in, and making the most of every minute. (full article here)

Summer Events sponsored by Death Talk Project...

7/4/2017

 
​•  July 25, 7PM,
   Clinton Street Theatre, 
  "Seven Songs for a Long Life." 
 
•  July 29, 10AM- 12M;
   Death Café at Day Break Cohousing.
 
•  July 23, 2:30 - 4PM;
   Threshold Singers,
   
Flanagan Chapel, 
   Lewis & Clark College. ​
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