Death Cafe profile for BuffaloDeathCafe


Press: Death Cafes Encourage People to Embrace Life

Posted by BuffaloDeathCafe on Dec. 29, 2014, 7:58 a.m.


I am the author of this article and attended several five sessions of the Buffalo Death Cafe. This relflects my experience of the group. It was facilitated by Andre Toth.

Mara Koven-Gelman

Buffalo News: http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/my-view/mara-koven-gelman-death-cafes-encourage-people-to-embrace-life-20141229

Death Cafe write up: Buffalo Death Cafe

Posted by BuffaloDeathCafe on Nov. 22, 2014, 2:13 p.m. 3 comments

What 52-year-old do you know looks forward to a weekly chat group held in Amherst, New York called the “Death Café?” Before one thinks I’m fatalistic or death-obsessed, let’s do the numbers.

We all are born and we all die. We live in an aging society and region where over 16% of Erie County and almost 22% of Amherst is over 65 years old. I figured there would be no shortage of death and dying talk. Conversation about death is not unique to West New York - currently, there are over 1300 Death Cafés in 26 counties - these are registered although I suspect there are more ...



Death Cafe: Buffalo Death Cafe

Posted by BuffaloDeathCafe on Nov. 22, 2014, 2:07 p.m.


With Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo

Dec. 5, 2014, 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (EST)

free

For next session, please contact Adult Services Coordinator Karla Wiseman at

 kwiseman@jccbuffalo.org or 716 204-2257