Welcome to Death Cafe
At Death Cafes people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Our aim is
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A Death Cafe is a special occasion - a discussion group where the only topic is death. And it makes for a fantastic conversation! To date we've held 1523 Death Cafes.
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We offer support to set up your own Death Cafe. Organising a Death Cafe is enjoyable, easy and life-enhancing.
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Lets talk about death!
This website is an online space to talk about death. Please share your thoughts, links and art about death and post your Death Cafes.
Please vote on whether we should set up a 'real' Death Cafe in London Vote here >>
Recent posts
With Brenda Brennecke
Feb. 24, 2015, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (28054)
This is free of charge.
Everyone welcome to bring your curosity and open mind. Expect lively, meaningful converstion, cake, coffee, and tea. We never know where the converstions will lead us, and that's the ...
With Heather Fish and Karen Scott
Feb. 26, 2015, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (GMT)
Suggested donation of £3-5 to cover venue and refreshements
Death Cafe: Death Cafe returns to Derwent Valley
Posted by VishwamHeckert on Jan. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
With Billie Riley, Sarah Williams, Vishwam J. Heckert, Jane Tresidder, Rob Tresidder
March 22, 2015, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
Donations welcome to cover hall rental, teas and cakes.
With Brooke Deputy, Amani Loutfy, Bill Palmer, Jo Townson
April 29, 2015, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (US West Coast)
Free
Our generous sponsor is Chapel of the Chimes. Admission is free and limited to 15. You must register through Eventbrite. To do so, go to www.eventbrite.com and search ...
With Brooke Deputy, Amani Loutfy, Bill Palmer, Jo Townson
April 15, 2015, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (US West Coast)
free
Our generous sponsor is Chapel of the Chimes. Admission is free anmd limited to 15 participants. You must register throufgh Eventbrite. To do so, go to www.eventbrite.com and ...
With Brooke Deputy, Amani Loutfy, Bill Palmer, Jo Townson
March 25, 2015, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (US West Coast)
free
Chapel of the Chimes is our generous host. Admission is free and limited to 15 attendees. You must register through Eventbrite. To do so, go to www.eventbrite.com and ...
With Brooke Deputy, Amani Loutfy, Bill Palmer, Jo Townson
March 4, 2015, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (US West Coast)
free
Chapel of the Chimes is our generous sponsor. Admission is free and limited to 15 participants. You must register on Eventbrite.
With Anna Armijo et al.
March 16, 2015, 5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. (Eastern Standard)
This is a free event
Although this is being held at a university, anyone around the area is more than welcome to join us. The more, the merrier.
We invite you to come talk about ...
With Jeanne Burke
Feb. 21, 2015, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (PST (Los Angeles))
room rental and refreshments
Death Cafe for the LGBTQI community- A Saturday Tea
What? Death Cafe is a safe place for the LGBTQI community and friends/allies to gather for conversation about death and ...
Death Cafe: Pop-up Death Cafe on a narrowboat in Bradford on Avon Wharf
Posted by mysticmoon on Jan. 28, 2015, 8:06 a.m.
With Sue Brayne and Liz Rothschild
April 9, 2015, 2.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (UK )
accept donations to cover costs of tea and cakes
I run pop up death cafes on my narrowboat Mystic Moon, offering a uniquely cosy and relaxed atmosphere in which to have those important conversations about death, dying, and end ...
With Luisa Fernanda Ruiz Montiel
Feb. 18, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Mexico City)
Evento gratis, sólo costo del café
Considero que es importante abrir un espacio público para que las personas tengan la libertad de hablar del tema de la muerte.
New Blog post: Vote - should we try to set up a 'real' Death Cafe in London or not?
Posted by Jon Underwood on Jan. 27, 2015, 1:39 p.m. 7 comments
Some notes:
· What is being asked here is whether setting up a ‘real’ Death Cafe is a good idea in principle. If a majority vote yes a business plan will be produced and with it a community share offer to raise the money. At this point the financial viability of the ‘real’ Death Cafe will be looked at in detail.
· What a real Death Cafe consists ...
With Vered (Rose) Shavit
Feb. 11, 2015, 8.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m. (Israel )
Admittance is free of charge and there is no minimum order required at the bar. No donations are accepted, suggested or expected.
As a youngster, Rose (Vered) Shavit didn't plan on encouraging death-related discussions when she'll be a grown up, honsetly.
After her brother, Tal Shavit, was killed when hit ...
With Spencer Thomas
Feb. 26, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)
Suggested £5 donation to cover the refreshments
Sorry that it has taken a while to get another cafe scheduled....but here it is, albeit later than promised. At the first cafe we had the meal, at the ...
With Sherry McKisson, MA, NCC, LPCA, LCASA
Feb. 19, 2015, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (Eastern)
No Charge - Donations accepted to cover costs of refreshments appreciated.
Sherry was a colleague & friend of the late Sandra Kremer, who founded the first Death Cafe in Hendersonville in 2013. She is continuing the tradition in Sandra's honor and ...