Welcome to Death Cafe
A Death Cafe is an event where people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death.
At a Death Cafe people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Our aim is
Support Death Cafe
Running Death Cafe is great fun but does take a lot of time. If you value this work please support us on Patreon.
Talking about death
A Death Cafe is an agenda free discussion about death. So far we've held 20816 Death Cafes.
ListingsTo date we've held 20816 Death Cafes. These never involve agendas, advertising or set conclusions. Interesting conversations are guaranteed!
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Host a Death Cafe
People who adopt the model set out in our guide are welcome to set up their own Death Cafes. So far we've held Death Cafes in 93 countries.
Our guide
Support Death Cafe
Running Death Cafe is great fun but does take time and resources. If you value this work please support us on Patreon.
Recent posts
With Courtney Ponsford
May 10, 2025, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (Pacific)
Accepts donations
Death has always been an interestingly comfortable concept to me for as long as I can remember. My intention within the Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA community is to provide ...
Death Cafe: Myrtle Beach Death Cafe at Chapin Memorial Library
Posted by BLLLINK on May 1, 2025, 5:23 a.m.
With Chapin Memorial Library
May 10, 2025, 1.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (eastern)
Accepts donations
You're invited to thisDeath Cafe; it is a time and place where people, often strangers, come to share cake, sip tea or coffee, and discuss death openly and honestly ...
With Amanda Brockway
May 9, 2025, 10.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (UK)
Free
With Liz Newell & Wendy Notley
May 10, 2025, 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (AEST)
Free
Our society is leaving us out of our own deaths! Death is so often too hidden, too alone and too ill considered. By creating a safe, friendly space to share ...
With Liz Newell & Wendy Notley
May 10, 2025, 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (AEST)
Accepts donations
Our society is leaving us out of our own deaths! Death is so often too hidden, too alone and too ill considered. By creating a safe, friendly space to share ...
With Hospice Kaipara, Josie Scott.
May 10, 2025, 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (NZST)
Free
Kaipara Hospice are proud to support this Death Cafe event - the first of its kind in the Kaipara and part of our ongoing commitment to raising awareness and supporting conversations ...
With Skanda Vale Hospice
May 9, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (gmt)
Accepts donations
At a Death Cafe, we create space for genuine, unhurried discussion about mortality—a topic that touches all our lives yet rarely finds its way into everyday conversation.
What to ...
With Kris Green / Linda Johnson
May 19, 2025, 5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. (AKST)
Accepts donations
We are totally convinced that talking about death will not kill you!!! As a matter of fact, there is evidence supporting that those who exercise the privilege of making their ...
With Grey Allen
June 7, 2025, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. (EST)
Accepts donations
With Charlotte Haigh
May 24, 2025, 12.00 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. (gmt)
Accepts donations
I love holding Death Cafes - they're a liberating opportunity to talk about subjects that are often taboo, but really shouldn't be. Accepting our own mortality can help us ...
Death Cafe: May 2025 Online PST Gentle Passage Doula Collective Death Cafe
Posted by GentlePassageDoula on April 18, 2025, 11:06 a.m.
With Gentle Passage Doula Collective
May 9, 2025, 12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. (Pacific)
Accepts donations
OUR PRINCIPLES
The Gentle Passage Doula Collective is a group of healthcare professionals who recognized the need for specialized end-of-life care and felt a calling to fill that void. Through ...
Death Cafe: Auckland, Death Cafe at Newtown Community Centre
Posted by rupachup on April 15, 2025, 3:50 a.m.
With Rachel Margaret
May 10, 2025, 1.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (Auckland, New Zealand)
Free
The Newtown Community Centre has been running a Death Cafe for a few years, & needed a new facilitator. It starts up again on Saturday 12 April 2025, & will be held ...
Death Cafe: Central Houston’s Monthly Death Cafe - May 2025
Posted by Houston Death Cafe on April 14, 2025, 11:46 p.m.
With Stephanie Wolff
May 10, 2025, 11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. (CST)
Accepts donations
Talking about death won’t kill you, so come along to a Death Café!
All are welcome at our monthly discussion circle on death (and life).
We are meeting this ...
Death Cafe write up: Central Houston’s Monthly Death Cafe - April 2025
Posted by Houston Death Cafe on April 14, 2025, 11:03 p.m.
Central Houston's April 2025 Death Cafe
We had ~15 people attend this month's dialogue.
Below you can find links to various things mentioned during the dialogue:
Local groups:
- The Jung Center
https://junghouston.org/
-Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston
https://www.cthouston.org/site/
- Texas Death With Dignity
https://texasdeathwithdignity.org/
- The Center for Mind-Body Medicine Houston
https://cmbm.org/communities/community/houston/
Books
- The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Katy Butler https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40538694-the-art-of-dying-well
- Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
https://www.goodreads.com/book ...
New Blog post: Using social media to support an in-person Death Cafe
Posted by Bonnington Centre Death Cafe on April 13, 2025, 11:18 a.m.
Using social media to support an in-person Death Cafe
Following why and how we set up a Death Café, this is a blog about our two-year experience of using WhatsApp. We created two groups in order to support the face-to-face Death Cafe discussions: one was for the facilitators, and the other for attendees.
Administration
Looking back on our postings, it’s clear that the facilitator WhatsApp group mostly covers practicalities with the Community Centre and ...