Death Cafe with discussion on suicide?
Posted by berry on Aug. 8, 2017, 8 a.m. 2 comments
Hello! I attended my first Death Cafe last fall and it was such a good experience I wanted to host another one in our community. What I noticed in the first one is that people were comfortable talking about death, but suicide remained taboo. I am thinking I would like to focus the conversation on this one around suicide, but is that too narrow a focus to maintain the guidelines? Also, if I collect donations, can they go to something specific, say, a local suicde support group?
Comments
This is a great question, and it's wonderful that you found it to be such a good experience!
In accordance with the guidelines, it would be restrictive to narrow the focus of a Death Cafe to suicide. However as a Death Cafe attendee/ participant you could bring it up and see where the conversation leads? Equally, you could host a Death Cafe for a specific community as per this blog: http://deathcafe.com/867/
If you felt it was appropriate to dedicate a proportion of proceeds to a charity then that would be fine - the issue we have is when individuals use donations for things that aren't good!
Posted by Jools Barsky
Suicide taboo
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On Utube:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=tightropetb&p=play+everything+thats+brilliant#id=9&vid=fb4d7a6e43e242afd58d962470db618f&action=click
Posted by Melissa Warner