Death Cafe profile for Amy Cunningham
Location: United States
About Amy Cunningham:
Amy Cunningham is a death educator and NY state licensed funeral director who blogs about funeral planning and end-of-life issues.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
When people comfortably discuss death, they become more aware of the preciousness of life. In order to get good at anything, one has to rehearse. So why not rehearse a little for death by discussing it over tea and cake (I prefer fruit and cheese myself) with others? I love Death Cafes for the community they build, and went to several before leading one.
What would you like your legacy to be?
Oh, I am hoping to foster better understanding between end-of-life professionals (crematory and cemetery managers, funeral directors) and the general public. I'd also like to make sure people shopping for funeral services go into their funeral arrangements conference armed with good information and a broader understanding of their options.
Thoughts for sharing:
So live, that when thy summons comes to join the innumerable caravan that moves to that mysterious realm where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death, thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust. Approach thy grave, like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
--William Cullen Bryant
Contact Amy Cunningham
Amy Cunningham's posts on the Death Cafe website
With Green-Wood Cemetery
Feb. 13, 2018, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Eastern standard time)
none
Refreshments will be served.
With Amy Cunningham
Nov. 14, 2017, 6.30 p.m. - 8.15 p.m. (ETS)
No donations necessary
Thanks to Green-Wood for providing the cookies, coffee, teas and great space.
With Green-Wood Cemetery
June 13, 2017, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (EST)
Free, historic fund donations and memberships always welcomed.
Cookies, tea, coffee--and you comfortably chatting about death and dying with other wayfaring strangers. Please join us!
Amy Cunningham blogs at TheInspiredFuneral.com, and lectures regularly on green burials, mixed-faith ...
With Amy Cunningham
July 5, 2016, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (East coast time)
All free, all welcome
We meet in the upper library room of the fabulous Morbid Anatomy Museum.
With Funeral Director Amy Cunningham
June 7, 2016, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (US East Coast)
none at this time
The upper rooms of the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn prove to be an exquisite setting for relaxed conversation about death and dying. Come early to peruse the wonderful book ...