‘Grief Postcards’, is a new Medway pilot project in partnership with Creatabot, funded by Better Medway Champions in Winter 2023. The postcards provide you with the opportunity to say some last words to people you have loved and lost. You send the postcards off and they are scanned onto a digital shrine for people who have died, creating an archive of memories and words we wish someone could hear.
The ‘I need you to know…’ postcards provide a word prompt to write something you wish you could have said to someone before they died. The white front postcards provide the opportunity to be creative and draw and/or write feelings about the person who has died, or words you wish you could have said.
Both designs can be found in Chatham Library and Rochester Library. At Chatham you will find them in the entrance foyer and in Rochester they are on the leaflet rack next to the childrens library entrance door. The postcards are pre-addressed, all you need to do is attach a stamp and post. This step in itself provides a ceremonial send off, which sometimes isn’t an opportunity everyone has been given.
The postcards have been created for those who feel out of place attending a funeral, or for those who have to remain anonymous in their grief. Additionally, there were many during the Covid-19 pandemic who were unable to say goodbye to loved ones. Maybe someone was never aware of the impact they had on us before they died, and we feel we have words to say remaining. Grief postcards give you the chance to speak those words.
This pilot project has been funded by Better Medway Champions.
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