Death Cafe profile for Naomi Wood


Location: United Kingdom

About Naomi Wood:

I live in Thirsk North Yorkshire, England with my partner and three children. I am very keen to open the discussion of death and dying in my local community. I meditate, follow some buddhist practices and am keen to enjoy life fully. Addressing death and mortality seems to help me feel more vital and awake. Talking about deep matters of the heart has always been important to me and helps me connect with my family friends and community.


What brings you to Death Cafe?

I was a nurse for 11 years before having children. I am now a full time parent at home. I would like to carry on with the deep connections I made in nursing with people especially when they are acutely ill or in palliative care. But also I feel driven to look at my own mortality and help my children value and make sense of their own lives and death. My two main personal experiences with death have been a boyfriend who committed suicide when I was 22 years old and my father who died at home very peacfully, with all his family around. 


What would you like your legacy to be?

Raise three happy children who fulfil their own potential.


Contact Naomi Wood



Naomi Wood's posts on the Death Cafe website


Death Cafe: Death Cafe Thirsk

Posted by Naomi Wood on April 15, 2016, 7:23 p.m.



With Naomi Wood

May 26, 2016, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

We suggest a donation of £3 per prson to cover costs.

We ran the Death Cafe Thirsk event monthly for a year, ending in Nov 2015. I had a baby and the winter months were drawing in. But we are back ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on Sept. 13, 2015, 8:38 p.m.



With Elizabeth and Pat

Oct. 29, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on Sept. 13, 2015, 8:32 p.m.



With Elizabeth and Pat

Sept. 24, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on June 30, 2015, 7:43 a.m.



With Elizabeth, Pat, Geof and Naomi

Aug. 27, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on June 30, 2015, 7:31 a.m.



With Geof, Elizabeth, Pat and Naomi

July 30, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on June 12, 2015, 4:14 a.m.



With Lesley, Pat, Liz and Naomi

June 25, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Practitioners question: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on May 5, 2015, 8:28 a.m. 1 comment


We hold one meeting a month at 7pm on the last Thursday of each month in the Quaker Meeting House in Thirsk. We also  have a meeting at 9:15 am in Cafe Nero on the first Tuesday. Our Death Cafe meetings started last November and our attendance is between ...

Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on April 17, 2015, 8:06 a.m.



With Pat, Geof and Naomi

May 28, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on April 1, 2015, 2:18 a.m.



With Geof, Pat, Liz, Sue and Naomi

April 30, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on March 10, 2015, 4:41 a.m.



With Sue and Naomi

March 26, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Suggested £3 donation goes towards costs of baking cakes, room hire and printing leaflets.

The event basically looks like this:

1. You turn up at the venue for 7pm

2. You have a coffee and a slice of cake if you want.

3. You ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on Feb. 10, 2015, 4:59 a.m.



With Sue Laws and Naomi Wood

Feb. 26, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Any donations go towards tea cake, advertising and leaflet costs.

We run Death Cafe as a interesting, fun, heart warming opportunity to discuss life and death issues together. We are all interested in the subject from both philosophical and personal ...



Death Cafe: Thirsk Death Cafe

Posted by Naomi Wood on Dec. 5, 2014, 9:10 a.m.



With Sue Laws and facilitated by Geof Sewell

Jan. 29, 2015, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Donations will go towards the room hire costs and the refreshments.

The Thirsk Death Cafe had its inaugural event in November 2014 and it was agreed that we should continue on this adventure! The venue is warm and welcoming and the ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe Thirsk

Posted by Naomi Wood on Oct. 22, 2014, 4:33 a.m.



With Naomi Wood

Nov. 27, 2014, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)

Free entry, any donation will go to covering the cost of the room hire and refreshments provided.

The event will be 'drop in' style and lightly facilitated. The main aim is for all attendees to feel welcome, have a slice of cake and discuss any aspect of ...





Contact Naomi Wood

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