Death Cafe profile for Kris Wyatt

Location: United States

What brings you to Death Cafe?

Curiosity and the promise of cake

What would you like your legacy to be?

Death comes to us all eventually.

Much like two sides of a coin, there could not be one side without the other. Good and bad, happiness and sadness. Death and life. These things would have no meaning if we could not compare them to their counterparts.

Finding solace in death brings meaning to life.

If death was meant to be scary no one would do it.

Thoughts for sharing:

For the Anniversary of My Death

BY W. S. MERWIN

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day

When the last fires will wave to me

And the silence will set out

Tireless traveler

Like the beam of a lightless star

Then I will no longer

Find myself in life as in a strange garment

Surprised at the earth

And the love of one woman

And the shamelessness of men

As today writing after three days of rain

Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease

And bowing not knowing to what

W. S. Merwin, “For the Anniversary of My Death” from The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

Source: The Second Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1993)

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Kris Wyatt's posts on the Death Cafe website

Death Cafe: Death Cafe Bristow

Posted by Kris Wyatt on April 15, 2018, 3:10 p.m.

With Kris Wyatt

May 15, 2018, 5.30 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (CST)

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To provide an open forum to discuss death, dying, and our universal mortality. To offer the opportunity for curiosity, community and cake.