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 1495 Death Cafes.
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This website is an online space to talk about death. Please share your thoughts, links and art about death and post your Death Cafes.
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New Blog post: Vote - should we try to set up a 'real' Death Cafe in London or not?
Posted by Jon Underwood on Jan. 25, 2015, 11:44 p.m. 6 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 Friends of St. Gregory's
Feb. 7, 2015, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
Free - Donations Accepted for food and location
We invite you to join us to talk about death, your experiences and concerns and eat cake and other snacks.
We've chosen to host this event at St. Gregory ...
With Alexis Pearce
Feb. 21, 2015, 1.00 p.m. - 2.45 p.m. (PST)
free
This is a fascinating topic, let's face it! But so many people are averse to even raising the subject. Let's just relax and exchange views in a comfortable ...
With Lis Horwich
Feb. 9, 2015, 7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (British Wintertime)
Donations will cover cake and drinks.
I really think death and dying are most fasinating subjets, as I believe the ore we talk about these subjects and the more we become at ease with them, the ...
With Maggie Beaumont
March 12, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Eastern)
Free and accepting donations
Space provided by the Unitarian Society of Germantown. We'll be meeting in secular space behind its parish hall.
This is a little article about our Death Cafe Girona, written by a local newspaper. It explains where and when is the first Death Cafe and some explanation about what is it, and also who are the authors of it.
See more at: El Punt Diari
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Girona
Posted by Death Cafe Girona on Jan. 22, 2015, 4:17 p.m.
I'm pleased to tell you that the first Death Cafe Girona was really successful! We had 33 participants and we shared our thoughts about death and dying in groups of 5 people. Accompanied by coffe, tea, juices and cookies and cake that I did myself.
I upload here some photos from the event.
The next will be soon!
Death Cafe write up: St Charles Death Cafe
Posted by dbanocy on Jan. 22, 2015, 10:54 a.m.
The first St. Louis area Death Cafe was held in St. Charles MO at a quaint little coffee house. In attendance was a minister and spriit healer, a medium, a former hospice worker and telepathic healer, a person that has dealt with the dealth of her son, husband and mother, an inhome caregiver, someone who is struggling with with their fear of dying and myself who hosted the cafe because I would like to start a dialogue with my adult childeren about death. It was very interesting and everyone had something to contribute! I am planning on hosting another one in about a month. It was very uplifting ...
With Gail Rubin, CT
Feb. 21, 2015, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Mountain)
Free - donations accepted
Join in the conversation over tea and cake with Lola, the plastic skeleton mascot of the Albuquerque Death Cafe. She doesn't say much, but she reminds us why we ...
With Lis Horwich
Feb. 18, 2015, 1.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (British Wintertime)
Donations will cover cake and drinks.
Death Cafe write up: Highcliffe Death Cafe
Posted by Lis Horwich on Jan. 22, 2015, 6:49 a.m.
On a grey and misty afternoon we met and talked amongst many subjects what the perfect funeral might be like. We listened to many songs, had some laughs, and talked about visiting funeral directors and woodland burials.
Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream
Bear fruit in the people-
- Seshendra Sharma
Seshendra Visionary poet of the millennium ...
With Emma Edwards
Feb. 22, 2015, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (GMT)
Donations welcome
Death Cafe Bristol is in a charming venue, in the basement of a Vintage Tea rooms in Bristol. Crammed with interesting nick nacks, adorned with twinkling fairy lights, the conversation ...