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 to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives.

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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.

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Talking about death

A Death Cafe is an agenda free discussion about death. So far we've held 18928 Death Cafes.

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To date we've held 18928 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 90 countries.

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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.

Support us

Recent posts

Death Cafe: Death Cafe Petaluma CA

Posted by Heather Lenehan on Sept. 1, 2024, 3:57 p.m.



With Heather Lenehan

Sept. 12, 2024, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (Pacific )

Accepts donations



Death Cafe: Death Cafe, Lincoln, Nebraska

Posted by Hannah Pollack on Aug. 31, 2024, 6:53 p.m.



With Hannah Pollack

Sept. 21, 2024, 12.00 p.m. - 1.00 p.m. (CDT)

Free



Death Cafe: Fairfax CA Conversations For Mortals Death Cafe

Posted by Doula on Aug. 31, 2024, 4:45 p.m.



With Stephanie Crawford

Sept. 18, 2024, 6.30 p.m. - 7.45 p.m. (pacific)

Free


Conversations for Mortals is a group-led discussion series that will explore and normalize conversations around death and dying. By opening up the conversation around mortality, we hope to cultivate acceptance ...



Death Cafe: Online Death Cafe Los Angeles PDT

Posted by MerrilyWeiss on Aug. 31, 2024, 3:26 p.m.



With Merrily Weiss

Sept. 28, 2024, 3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (pst)

Free


Come join us for a conversation on all things death and living! We've been meeting as a group for 3+ years and we welcome newcomers to join us for ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe TLH

Posted by the11thhour on Aug. 31, 2024, 3:15 p.m.



With Adrienne Capeless

Sept. 29, 2024, 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (Eastern)

Accepts donations


Death Cafe is back in Tallahassee! Since COVID, we have had less and less safe spaces to talk about death. Join us for an informal discussion about death, grief, loss ...



Death Cafe: Ballydehob Death Cafe

Posted by TessaGibson on Aug. 31, 2024, 2 p.m.



With Tessa Gibson

Sept. 14, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)

Free


How many we know by now

who are dead! We, who were young,

now count the cost of having been…

Our hair turns white with our ripening

as though to ...



Death Cafe: Leadville CO Death Cafe

Posted by edetienne on Aug. 30, 2024, 9:24 p.m.



With Sarah Roberts and Elizabeth Fine

Sept. 13, 2024, 5.30 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (Mountain )

Free



Death Cafe: Morro Bay Death Cafe

Posted by nhuebler on Aug. 30, 2024, 5:51 p.m.



With Nikki Huebler

Sept. 20, 2024, 4.00 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. (Pacific)

Accepts donations



Death Cafe: Gilbert AZ Death Cafe

Posted by Jenn Stone on Aug. 30, 2024, 12:38 p.m.



With Jenn Stone

Sept. 28, 2024, 2.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (MST - Arizona)

Accepts donations


I'm hosting this event to encourage people to talk about dying and death in order to have more peace for them and their loved ones while living life to ...



Death Cafe: Portales Death Cafe

Posted by gregs110 on Aug. 29, 2024, 6:18 p.m.


With Gregory Aguilar

Sept. 26, 2024, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (MST)

Free



Death Cafe: Sunday Death Cafe Denver CO

Posted by RsDs4751 on Aug. 29, 2024, 1:13 p.m.



With Delana & Richard Schneider

Sept. 22, 2024, 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 a.m. (MT)

Free


The First Universalist Chruch of Denver, kindly offers the space for us to host our monthly meetings the 4th Sunday of each month. 

The size of our group varies from ...



Death Cafe: Clinton Death Cafe

Posted by Shealuv on Aug. 29, 2024, 11:09 a.m.



With Holland Patent Public Library

Sept. 28, 2024, 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (EST)

Accepts donations


About this Death Café

 

Our aim at the Clinton Death Café is to provide a friendly, relaxed, and hopefully, fun environment for people to talk about and explore issues surrounding ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe Ipswich Australia

Posted by GriefGuide on Aug. 29, 2024, 12:23 a.m.



With Ali Mills (Grief Guide) & Amy Larsen (Brisbane Grief Counselling)

Sept. 27, 2024, 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (AEST)

Accepts donations


Please join us for a cup of tea, slice of cake and a conversation about death, dying and life in between.

We as a culture don't do grief well ...



Death Cafe: Paw Paw Death Cafe

Posted by Bodhisattva1 on Aug. 28, 2024, 2:23 p.m.



With Patrice Kaufman

Sept. 17, 2024, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)

Free


This Death Cafe will be an open conversation about death. All are welcome to attend. Anything on your mind about death is accepted in this conversation. Questions, comments, stories, hopes ...



Death Cafe: Tonganoxie Death Cafe

Posted by kdowning on Aug. 28, 2024, 1:31 p.m.



With Tonganoxie Public Library

Sept. 23, 2024, 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (CST)

Free


**Brand new group!** This is the first meeting, but the group will meet monthly on the 4th Monday at 4:00 pm.
Talking about death won’t kill you. Lively ...