Our first Death Cafe in Guernsey, Channel Islands


A write up of Death Cafe Guernsey

By Karen Leach




 

Our first Death Cafe was organised in the Concourse at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre, Guernsey.  The café took place during Dying Matters week and ran from 3pm - 6pm. 

 

Throughout the afternoon about 15 people came in and many of them stayed quite a while to chat.  Most of them were from the older age group and had suffered the loss of a partner, but there were a few younger people who were wanting to find out how they could best support bereaved people in their friendship group. We had a number of leaflets, from CAB, local undertakers and Dying Matters week and people seemed quite interested in taking them for further reference.

 

We provided, tea, coffee and some splendid cakes.

A member of the Arts Commission came to facilitate an arts activity and he was good at interacting with those who came along and facilitated some good discussions about cultural factors with regard to death and bereavement. We had very positive feed-back from those who came along and look forward to arranging our next cafe in the future.

 


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