Malvern Death Cafe
A write up of Malvern Death Cafe
By sue
21st March, 2019:
Weekly meetings are now occuring around Malvern. In Bromyard, Ledbury, soon Worcester. The evening meetings are proving very popular. A comfy lounge, friends and strangers, talking, listening. Connecting. In what usually stops a conversation dead we find so many new and familiar stories.
We started meeting every week back in 2013, while my mum had dementia and I learned how to live with her and it, a new life, a slow death for us both.
A number of core groups formed over the years, deep friendships which have sustained each of us through more deaths, more dementia, more living.
Some visitors are curious, some angry, frightened, studious, bemused, sad.
Some came to 'help' us. They didn't come more than once. Some wanted to sell or recruit for their courses. They dont come any more either.
Mum died at the end of 2016. I went away for a year. It seems I am back, learning yet more about grief. The light and energy is returning... I am drawn to hold more death cafes, to bring the cake or find places that sell excellent cake, (also have good coffee, and tea, with parking, without surround sound, comfy chairs, a good view out the windows, not too many steps, non flourescent lighting, heating) and hold the space while others speak. And such gratitude I see for this opportunity to meet others willing to speak of such things.
We have a facebook page- so to keep up with this group as it moves around the three counties throughout the months ahead, find us there too. Malvern Death Cafe.