Death Cafe profile for Karen Leach
Location: Guernsey
About Karen Leach:
I have been a nurse for over 30 years. I am a Service Manager in Adult Community Services in Guernsey which includes our specilaist palliative care team.
I have been working with our team, partner organisations and 3rd sector on end of life care improvements for the last few years.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
Have been a member of the Dying matters Coalition for a few years. Heard Jon speak at the launch and have been keen to see how Death Cafe would be received here in Guernsey.
Working with our hospital chaplain, we have found a venue and will see how it goes.
What would you like your legacy to be?
That others do more, feel more, care more, learn more and live more.
Thoughts for sharing:
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way."
Victor E Frankl
Contact Karen Leach
Karen Leach's posts on the Death Cafe website
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Guernsey
Posted by Karen Leach on June 22, 2017, 5:03 a.m.
Our first Death Cafe was organised in the Concourse at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre, Guernsey. The café took place during Dying Matters week and ran from 3pm - 6pm.
Throughout the afternoon about 15 people came in and many of them stayed quite a while to chat. Most of them were from the older age group and had suffered the loss of a partner, but there were a few younger people who were wanting to find out how they could best support bereaved people in their friendship group. We had a number of leaflets, from CAB, local undertakers and Dying Matters week and people seemed quite interested in taking ...
With Linda Le Vasseur
May 11, 2017, 3.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. (GMT)
Free
Have been a member of the Dying matters Coalition for a few years. Heard Jon speak at the launch and have been keen to see how Death Cafe would be ...