Death Cafe Newtown
A write up of Death Cafe, Newtown, Sydney
A small but positive start.
Run in my own home so a comfortable environment and people commented how the Chai tea was a winner!
Discussion was open and freeflowing. Topics ranged from a 21 year old American male discussing the suicide of a room mate and the impact on him, how he now deals more proactively with depression in colleagues to let them know they have options and relief of being able to speak about it to others. Another attendee was older and death literate, had experienced breast cancer that sharpened her awareness in this area. She clarified the importance of end-of-life discussions in creating normalcy in this area. DIscussion around how we attract people to Death Cafes who are not death literate and how death was incorporated into the everyday in Vietnamese, African and most Asian cultures and how we can learn from this.