Death Cafe profile for Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe


Location: Canada

About Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe:

We are an active group of community members seeking to support open , thoughtful conversations about death and dying . The Cowichan Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island is a warm hearted progressive community .Both indivduals and insititutions within the community endorse the Death Cafe initiative. The Library offers a room , another agency prints posters, another provides tea/coffee/ cakes. 

A cadre of intereted volunteers act as facilitators to ensure the conversations are lively, respectful of all beliefs and give everyone a chance to share ideas.

Listeners are welcome too!


What would you like your legacy to be?

A community comfortable with death and dying . Citizens that live every day to its fullest because they have had an opportunity to discuss what is important with each other.  Attitudes pervading our community that support conversations about death and dying .Services provided for the full spectrum of needs around death and dying.


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Death Cafe: Cowichan Valley Death Cafe-Duncan BC

Posted by Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe on Jan. 18, 2017, 7:19 p.m.



With Community volunteers

Jan. 31, 2017, 5.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (PST)

There is no cost because of the generosity of our community sponsors.

An open and often lively discsussion at tables of 6 to 8  participants ( often  50  people in attendance) . Each table has a volunteer who ensures everyone has an opporutnity to ...



Death Cafe: Cowichan Valley Death Cafe

Posted by Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe on Sept. 25, 2016, 1:16 p.m.



With Community volunteers

Sept. 27, 2016, 5.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (Pacific Standard)

No cost

This  will be our 6th conversation in the community over 3 years, each has been well attended and richly rewarding to the conversationalists . There is always hearty laughter and a ...



Death Cafe: Cowichan Valley Death Cafe

Posted by Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe on Jan. 6, 2016, 1:15 a.m.



With An interested and committed group of community volunteers

Feb. 23, 2016, 5.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (pst)

we have generous donations of our treats so no costs to our participants


Death Cafe: Cowichan Valley Death Cafe

Posted by Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe on Oct. 26, 2015, 12:45 a.m.


With GRoup of interested community volunteers

Nov. 24, 2015, 5.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (Pacific Standard)

no cost to participants

Join us for the 5th Death Cafe to be held in the Cowichan Valley. 

Register for your place at the conversation table by calling the Library at (250) 746-7661

Tea ...



Death Cafe write up: Cowichan Valley Death Cafe

Posted by Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe on April 13, 2015, 1:58 a.m.

We have agreed to collect and post the big generative questions we have/find about death and dying. Here are our "beginnings" :

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers”

 

 

 

James Thurber

 

 

COWICHAN VALLEY DEATH CAFE

ASKING THE “BIG” QUESTIONS

 

WHEN I THINK ABOUT DEATH AND DYING I WONDER….

 

 

 

Do you think ...



Death Cafe: Cowichan Valley Death Cafe

Posted by Cowichan Valley B.C. Death Cafe on March 17, 2015, 1:35 a.m.


With a group representing diverse interests

Sept. 15, 2015, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Pacific )


We live in a region where many retirees from all across Canada arrive to live... the demographics of that group make them very interested in living life to the fullest ...





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