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.

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 20619 Death Cafes.

Listings

To date we've held 20619 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.

Support us

Recent posts

Death Cafe: Colorado Springs Death Cafe'

Posted by gnovack@gmail.com on April 16, 2025, 3:21 p.m.

With Gerald J Novack

May 4, 2025, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (MST)

Free

Death Cafe: Harrogate Death Cafe

Posted by Richard Cyster on April 16, 2025, 2:56 p.m.

With Richard Cyster

May 6, 2025, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (London GMT)

Free

This Death Café, marking Dying Matters Awareness Week (5-11 May), is for like-minded people coming together to talk about death and death-related issues. There is no fixed agenda. Just bring ...

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 ...

Death Cafe: East Dallas Death Cafe

Posted by LisaClemmer on April 14, 2025, 5:12 p.m.

With Lisa Clemmer

May 2, 2025, 12.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. (CST)

Free

A human like everyone else that feels talking about death lessens the fear around it all. We are all in this life together which will ultimately end in death.

Death Cafe: Death Cafe at Stones in Edenbridge

Posted by Ruth Sugden on April 14, 2025, 9:37 a.m.

With Ruth Sugden

May 6, 2025, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (BST)

Accepts donations

Stones at Edenbridge Leisure centre is a community space. Anyone and everyone is welcome.

The room has tea and coffee making facilities (for which a donation is welcomed)

We will ...

Death Cafe: Dulwich Death Cafe

Posted by annkenrick on April 13, 2025, 3:17 p.m.

With ANN KENRICK & TREVOR MOORE

May 7, 2025, 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (GMT)

Accepts donations

Come and join us at Bell House for a unique and thought-provoking event linked to national Dying Matters Week which aims to increase death literacy and encourage all communities to ...

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 ...

Death Cafe: Life & Death Cafe - Deer Park, OH

Posted by compassionatetransitions on April 12, 2025, 5:16 p.m.

With Compassionate Transitions

May 5, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (EDT)

Free

Death informs life. By talking about it, by holding the conversation, and by caring listening, today's choices about how we want to live our lives can become much more ...

Death Cafe write up: Portland, OR Thursday Evening Death Cafe

Posted by nomenoyou1 on April 12, 2025, 10:31 a.m.

We had about 11 people at Thursday's Peace House Death Cafe. David introduced the Cafe. Rosalie and Julie facilitated.

Several people brought grief into the discussion--some recent and some aged, but both still raw. We talked about how to be with children when a loved one has died. One family discussed how it is to be with a family member who has a been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Another discussed how they decided to include their children when a family member was suddenly hospitalized . . .

It was interesting to have a discussion of Swedish Death Cleaning--some right on top of that chore, some with good intentions. It ...