Death Cafe profile for Maggy Durand


Location: Canada

https://soundcloud.com/maggy-durand/sets/2016-1

About Maggy Durand:

Natural born artist, Philosopher and... Death Cafe facilitator since 2017 ;)

Holding Death Cafe in Drummondville and Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec)


What brings you to Death Cafe?

Puking in my lungs since my birth (esophageal atresia), I became fascinated and terrified by death a long time ago. Death became my compagnon but... I had to tame the beast, little by little, in order to be able to learn from it's wisdom.

Goth since teenagehood, I was misenderstood by my family, my friends and everybody else... To them, my attraction towards death was, not only weird, but unealthy : they hoped this was just a phase. I had to stand up for my convictions and beliefs, going against the mainstream mindset, for a decade, but now... It seems like the world is changing : the baby boomers are growing old... And death terrifies them. Some of them lived meaningfull lifes and some other have lived a life dictated by their egos... And they are looking for answer.

Holding a place where death can be discussed without feeling out of place, weird or pityfull is important to me.

Death is a natural process that no one should feel ashamed to think about and to talk about. I feel like there's a mouvement reaching the surface of mankind consciousness... And I want to be part of it.


What would you like your legacy to be?

A revolution... Nothing less


Thoughts for sharing:

https://youtu.be/YumhzVvq63w

Song : "Memento Mori" by Architects

[Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973):]
Now there really isn’t anything radically wrong with being sick or with dying. Who said you’re supposed to survive? Who gave you the idea that it’s a gas to go on and on and on?

And we can’t say that it’s a good thing for everything to go on living. In a very simple demonstration that if we enable everybody to go on living, we overcrowd ourselves.

So therefore, one person who dies in a way is honorable because he’s making room for others… 

We can also look further into and see that if our death could be indefinitely postponed, we would not actually go on postponing it indefinitely because after a certain point we would realize that isn’t the way in which we wanted to survive.

Why else would we have children? Because children arrange for us to survive in another way by, as it were, passing on a torch so that you don’t have to carry it all the time. There comes a point where you can give it up and say; “now you work”.

It’s a far more amusing arrangement for nature to continue the process of life through different individuals then it is always with the same individual, because as each new individual approaches life is renewed. And one remembers how fascinating the most ordinary everyday things are to a child, because they see them all as marvelous – because they see them all in a way that is not related to survival and profit.

When we get to thinking of everything in terms of survival and profit value, as we do, then the shapes of scratches on the floor cease to have magic. And most things, in fact, cease to have magic.

So therefore, in the course of nature, once we have ceased to see magic in the world anymore, we are no longer fulfilling nature’s game of being aware of it.

There’s no point in it any longer. And so we die. And, so something else comes to birth, which gets an entirely new view. 

It is not, therefore, natural for us to wish to prolong life indefinitely. But we live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture, in particular, suffers.

 


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Death Cafe: Death Cafe Drummondville

Posted by Maggy Durand on Feb. 6, 2017, 3:06 p.m.



With Maggy Durand

Feb. 15, 2017, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (Canada)

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