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 1004 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.
Recently in Hong Kong people have been talking about death. Read more >>
Recent posts
New Blog post: 1,000th Death Cafe
Posted by Jon Underwood on July 30, 2014, 9:03 a.m. 1 comment
We recently passed the major milestone of 1,000 Death Cafes :)
It is amazing to know that all over the world people are discussing death thanks to this work.
Thanks so much to everyone attending, organising or supporting Death Cafe.
Press: "Lawrence Death Cafe provides safe environment for discussing all things mortal"
Posted by CW on July 29, 2014, 5:37 p.m.
Lawrence Death Cafe provides safe environment for discussing all things mortal
Death is inevitable. Talking about it isn't. The Lawrence Death Cafe hopes ...
See more at: Lawrence Journal World - newspaper & web site
With Constance Whiston
Aug. 9, 2014, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (CST)
We ask (by the guidelines) a $4.00 donation to cover printing, advertising, materials
Our Lawrence is always run exactly by the facilitator guidelines on the Death Cafe web site. We do not have sponsors but would love some. We do have repeat attendees.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Madison
Posted by Death Cafe Madison on July 29, 2014, 12:14 p.m.
"I've always thought about death a lot", differences in families; some families don't talk about death or people in the family who have died, others often reminisce about family members who have died. Times have changed, everyone is busy and family members are spread out across the country, thus less time to come together to grieve. When people die at home, there is more time to accept and be together, now often, families are not with the person often when they die and everyone is so busy. Taking care of the property, funeral arrangements, etc) becomes another arrangement in the busy schedules.
With Amelia Carroll
Sept. 20, 2014, 2.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (Pacific)
Admission is Free ~ Donations are welcome to cover the costs of refreshments and materials.
Let's Have Coffee and Talk About Death
Hello, my name is Amelia Carroll from Sacred Spirit Passages and I think talking about death is a great way to spend ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Montreal
Posted by Kit Racette on July 28, 2014, 5:17 p.m.
On July 16, 25 people gathered together in Montreal for tea and coffee and cakes. Once more I was struck by how different each Death Cafe is. There is always the mixture of people who come because they have experienced the death of some one close. Then there are those who work in palliative care and I value their sharing of their accompanying the dying. And there are always those who are curious about their own death, some frightened and some wanting to face it in a conscious way. This time, once more, there was some one who shared their near death experience and we are all interested ...
With Risa Marlen & Kathy Ferris are the facilitators. Debra Lauren is the Host.
Sept. 28, 2014, 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (Eastern Standard)
$7 p/p suggested donation requested to compensate Director for the use of her facility.
We feel passionate about the need and desire for people to come together in supportive community to share their hopes, expectations and fears about the fact that we are all ...
I am looking for a new venue and considering asking the local funeral homes. Do funeral homes attract people to attend?
New Blog post: Australian Aboriginal Proverb
Posted by Pam Cuming on July 28, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
We are all visitors
to this time, this place.
We are just
passing through.
Our purpose
here is to observe,
to learn, to grow.
to love...and then
we return home.
With April Lewis
Aug. 16, 2014, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Australian Eastern Time)
suggested donation of $10 per person - all of this will go to the Cafe owners for the use of a separate section of the cafe - they will provide tea/coffee/soft drink and a home-made muffin, in line with the principle of Death Cafe being not for profit.
Over a cup of tea or coffee, with a delicious muffin, come along and meet others who wish to have a conversation about death and dying - in a safe, supported ...
With Mark LaRocca-Pitts, Bob Duvall, Kate Hauk, David Hall
Aug. 16, 2014, 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (EST (USA))
Free--Suppored by a grant from Crossroads Hospice Charitable Foundation.
First Death Café in a Cemetery (and the first one in the Southeast USA)!
In real estate, it’s always location, location, location. Well, why not for a Death Caf ...
With Agape Palliative Care and Hospice Services
Aug. 24, 2014, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (MST)
Free
With Dana Bogatz
Aug. 19, 2014, 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. (Eastern)
No cost
This is our daytime gathering for DeathCafe. Past participants have commented on the warmth of the conversation, and the diversity of the participants. The food is not bad either! there ...
With Emma Edwards
Sept. 7, 2014, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (GMT)
Free
Cox & Baloney are providing an exclusive Death Cafe Menu just for us, at a discounted price, with carefully selected teas and cakes:
£5.50 slice of cake and pot of ...
New Blog post: On being a widow
Posted by Pam Cuming on July 27, 2014, 6:47 p.m.
Sometimes couples learn to dance so well together that when one of them dies, the other can scarcely navigate the dance floor. To lose the love of one’s life is to feel like a part of us has been amputated. There is a vacancy, an emptiness that can never be filled. No matter how wondrous the people we meet in the future, the amputated limb can never be replaced or regrown.
The word “widow ...