Winter Quarter Tucson update
A write up of Tucson Death Cafe
We gathered for the winter Tucson death cafe on Thursday afternoon, Feb 26, at the Benedictine Monastery on Country Club Rd. http://www.tucsonmonastery.com
It's spacious community space generously accommodated the 36 or so participants. Death cafe facilitators, Kristine and Cindy, also generously welcomed everyone with a large array of snacks, featuring a lot of chocolate. Good stuff for talking about death! After the munching started, we gathered in a circle to review ground rules and make brief introductions, during which anyone with a particular interest for discussion had the opportunity to put it out there to the group. Then we disbanded, to gather and talk further as we felt moved. Looked like some groups did form around some of the topics that came up during introductions, like the need for grieving, talking with children about death, and thinking of death as a poodle or a wolf, referring to something attributed to Orphan Wisdom School creator Stephen Jenkinson.
All too quickly it seemed it was time to wrap up, and the 25th Tucson death cafe was done. Words folks used to describe the event included:
positive
supportive
helpful
clear
honest
real
validating
informative
fun
enlightening