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
Talking about death
A Death Cafe is an agenda free discussion about death. So far we've held 7500 Death Cafes.
ListingsTo date we've held 7500 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 63 countries.
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With Glynis German
Dec. 21, 2018, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (CET)
Free
Whilst this event is free, each pays for their own refreshements.
Este encuentro es gratuito pero cada uno paga su refrigerio.
With Bill Gupton
Feb. 1, 2019, 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (Eastern)
Free
Bill Gupton is the organizer and facilitator of Death Cafe Cincinnati. He has led numerous previous Death Cafes in various venues around the Midwest and South. Bill is also involved ...
With Suffolk Anthology
Jan. 17, 2019, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (England)
Free
Our Death cafe is open to adults of all ages who are prepared to work with our principles of confidentiality, respect and honesty
We start by going round introducing ourselves ...
Death Cafe: Women Only Death Cafe South Woodford Library
Posted by Compassionate on Dec. 14, 2018, 9:07 a.m.
With Compassionate Funerals with South Woodford Library
March 8, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
Free
Join us in a relaxed setting to drink tea /coffee & to eat cake whilst discussing anything you want to in relation to death and dying, life and living.
As part ...
With Wanstead Library with Compassionate Funerals
Feb. 25, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
Hasina Zaman is the CEO of Compassionate Funerals, founded in Sept 2012.
Hasina quickly realised that the public feared and stayed away from engaging with and embracing death, dying and ...
Death Cafe: Redbridge Central Library Death Cafe
Posted by Compassionate on Dec. 14, 2018, 8:31 a.m.
With Redbridge Libraries with Compassionate Funerals
Jan. 11, 2019, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
Join us in a relaxed setting to drink tea /coffee & to eat cake whilst discussing anything you want to in relation to death and dying, life and living.
Our Library ...
With Miriam
Feb. 23, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Eastern )
Free
The aim of the Death Cafe movement is to increase awareness of death in order to help people make the most of their finite lives. Everyone is welcome.
Death Cafes ...
With Rosalie Kuyvenhoven
Jan. 10, 2019, 7.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
Join us Thursday 10th January 2019 for an evening filled with life-affirming conversations about our mortality.
We are delighted to be hosting this Death Cafe in The Green Shed, a ...
Death Cafe: Lancaster PA Death Cafe III at The Long Community at Highland
Posted by BLLLINK on Dec. 13, 2018, 1:46 a.m.
With Pennsylvania Link to Aging and Disability Resources | Lancaster County Link partners in collaboration with The Long Community at Highland
Jan. 26, 2019, 1.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (eastern)
Free
This will be the third Death Cafe at the Long Community. We're sure the conversations at this one will be as vibrant and expansive at the previous.
Come join ...
With Neidra L. Clark
Jan. 9, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Eastern USA)
Free
With Sandy Pedrazas, Molly Steel and Elizabeth Quigg
Jan. 12, 2019, 10.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. (CDT)
Accepts donations
With Penny
Jan. 14, 2019, 6.45 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Accepts donations
You are welcome to join us at our lovely new venue, The Edge Cafe, for tea, cake and conversation about death in an open, respectful and confidential space. We meet ...
With Penny
March 11, 2019, 6.45 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (UK)
Accepts donations
You are welcome to join us at our lovely new venue, The Edge Cafe, for tea, cake and conversation about death in an open, respectful and confidential space. We meet ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Ogden Utah
Posted by Nichole Sorensen on Dec. 11, 2018, 9:02 p.m.
Not a soul came to this one. The holidays are a hard time for people so I am going to try this again after christmas. However not all was lost. My 5 year old had some great questions about death and dying. He asked why we have to die? Also where do we go when we die?
I did explain that we die because it is apart of our life cycle and all things die eventually. I looked up some plant life cycle and insect life cycle videos. It was the best way I could show him so that he would understand.
Where we go, I explaind for ...
With Shannon Ayers
March 16, 2019, 2.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (Pacific )
Free