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Memphis celebrates 4th of July after a year of no festivities
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis celebrates 4th of July alongside the Mississippi River.
It’s one that organizers say is even more special after not being able to celebrate together last year.
Pairing fireworks with live music, food trucks and crowds of people out here today, Memphians were taken back to pre-COVID-19 pandemic times and are excited for the rest of 2021.
“It’s super exciting to actually be able to have a celebration that everyone can come together and have fun,” George Abbott, Director of External Affairs for Memphis River Parks Partnership, said.
Because of this, much of her death work in Laramie involves community outreach through platforms like Death Café - an international movement that originated in the U.K. - and in recent past, a book club called Death and Dying. She also co-founded the nonprofit Higher Plains Death Collective in 2018.
Beasley prefers in-person interactions to perform what is referred to as the three meditations: death plan, legacy project and her favorite - and most intimate - last breath rituals. She alluded the hardest part for her about death work during a pandemic is the inability to be present during the last breath rituals.