Welcome to Death Cafe
At Death Cafes people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Our aim is
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A Death Cafes 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 643 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.
Read about our exciting plans to open a real Death Cafe in 2014!
Recent posts
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Teleconference
Posted by merilynne on March 10, 2014, 3:38 p.m.
The Teleconference went really well. We managed to have a great, polite and meaningful conversation even though we couldn't see each other! I'm really glad we did it.
- The importance of planning ahead
- How can we make burial green(er): Education, Advocacy and Advance Planning (conference flier attached)
- How to start a Death Cafe (Practice your elevator speech, garner support, approach the media)
- How to run a death cafe (Small groups, discussion starter questions, etc.)
- How to sell a pre-purchased niche at a cemetery (Call the cemetery and good luck!)
- Discomfort dealing with illness and loss and death (see about NPR spot ...
Death Cafe: DødsCafe København / Death Cafe Copenhagen
Posted by Karin Westh on March 10, 2014, 12:58 p.m.
With Ellen Hansen og Karin Westh
May 8, 2014, 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (CET)
Det er gratis at deltage i DødsCafe. Vi modtager gerne et beløb, f.eks 50 kr til dækning af kaffe, te og kage.
Ellen og Karin indleder med at byde velkommen og fortælle om aftenen. Derefter sørger vi for, at vi sammen kan have en meningsfuld samtale om døden, som ...
With Host Cafe
April 8, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (UK)
Free
Continuing the global conversation of deathcafe.org, Host Cafe opens its doors after hours to one of the most universal events and topics on the planet: death. With the relaxed ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe at Cafe Rouge in Hampstead, London
Posted by Josefine Speyer on March 10, 2014, 2:37 a.m.
This Death Café held on a pleasant September evening was fully booked – overbooked - but not all 42 people attended and so I think we were pretty much down to 30 or so, the normal capacity for the room.
The evening was wonderful, inspirational, moving and a positive experience all round. Cj Swaby, Liz Wong, Thom Osborn and I each facilitated a table. Halfway through the evening we took a break. We ended the evening with a ‘plenary’. On Thom’s suggestion, we made a large circle, everyone facing into the room so we could see each other. This plenary was a closing circle and a chance for anyone ...
With Kay Ryan and Carol Wales
May 11, 2014, 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (NZ time)
Free
With Sophia Tara
March 30, 2014, 1.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (NZDT)
Free. Donations gracefully accepted.
Death Cafe Wellington NZ will provide a safe, agenda-free space to dialogue about death and life over tea, cake and learning that Death is the Great Adventure and not to ...
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
~ Buddha
Death Cafe: Death Cafe for Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge
Posted by candles13 on March 9, 2014, 3:10 p.m.
With Aspen Heisey & Linda Nagel
March 30, 2014, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)
Donations welcome
With Glynis Fletcher
April 13, 2014, 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (GMT)
FREE but donations are gratefully welcomed.
I have experienced loss both professionally and personally, and welcome the opportunity to celebrate our lives by engaging in honest and open discussions in an informal setting.
Lifeways is the ...
Death Cafe write up: Stratford Death Cafe
Posted by glynis on March 9, 2014, 5:08 a.m.
We had another lively and interesting gathering, 10 of us altogether. Our discussion ranged from the philosphical, beliefs about the afterlife: did we meet our loved ones, or is there nothing? Other areas were sudden death, early loss of parents, losing a younger partner and organ donation. Feedback forms showed an interest in discussing dignity in death and making plans for what you want in your own funeral.
Looking forward to March 9th's meeting.
With Lizzy Miles
April 2, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (EST)
Free Event; Food available for purchase
This is as authentic as you can get. No agenda, no ideology. You share what's on your mind. This is a discussion group, not a grief group or educational ...
With Elisabetta Lucchi & Hilary Wilson
March 21, 2014, 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m. (UTC/GMT)
free
For the first time in a funeral trade exhibition. The Death Cafè will introduce this year at TANEXPO the successful meetings taking place all around the world, to talk about ...
See more at: Vite Speciali
Press: La morte? Non fa paura... Se ne parla nei "death cafè"
Posted by Elisabetta Lucchi on March 8, 2014, 8:51 a.m.
See more at: Affari Italiani
Press: Caffè, morte e una fetta di torta: l’esperienza di Death Café
Posted by Elisabetta Lucchi on March 8, 2014, 8:50 a.m.
See more at: Salone del Lutto