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 20041 Death Cafes.

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To date we've held 20041 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.

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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: Wheat Ridge CO Death Cafe

Posted by GoldenHeart on Feb. 8, 2025, 7:09 p.m.



With Colleen Taylor & Karen Keeran

Feb. 23, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (MT)

Free


Please join us at the Wheat Ridge Death Café for open conversations on death and dying, and together we will create a safe and supportive environment to explore and ask ...



With Olga Talantopoulou

Feb. 15, 2025, 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (CET)

Accepts donations


We will meet at the cozy room of the greek orthodox church in Schwabing and people who speak German, English or greek are invited to join and if they want ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe - Sioux Falls

Posted by tiffdorf on Feb. 7, 2025, 5:42 p.m.



With Tiff and Sandrine

Feb. 15, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (Central Standard Time )

Free


Everyone (over 18) is welcome!!

 

We will keep to the Death Cafe model, please be sure to read and digest the information in the "About" section of the Death Cafe ...



Death Cafe: Desert Reflections Death Cafe Palm Springs CA

Posted by DesertDoulaLauren on Feb. 7, 2025, 11:29 a.m.



With Anubis, Inc. & Desert Doula Lauren

Feb. 19, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (PST)

Accepts donations


Together, Anubis, Inc. and Desert Doula Lauren aim to provide a safe space for conversation around the taboo topic of death. While we understand that western culture has a strong ...



Death Cafe: South San Francisco Peninsula Death Cafe

Posted by Peninsula Death Cafe on Feb. 7, 2025, 3:10 a.m.



With Kellie

Feb. 24, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Pacific)

Accepts donations


Talking about death is hard, but it shouldn’t be taboo. It’s a part of life. Join a safe, compassionate space to discuss grief, mortality, and what it means ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe Raleigh NC

Posted by heather@rfhr.com on Feb. 6, 2025, 4:04 p.m.



With Renaissance Funeral Home and Atria Oakridge

Feb. 20, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (United States)

Accepts donations


Light refreshments will be provided.



Death Cafe: Paw Paw Death Cafe

Posted by Bodhisattva1 on Feb. 6, 2025, 9:03 a.m.



With Patrice Kaufman

Feb. 25, 2025, 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: Topeka Kansas Death Cafe

Posted by emilyhowell on Feb. 5, 2025, 10:50 a.m.



With Emily Howell

Feb. 21, 2025, 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. (Central)

Accepts donations


This commitment to helping others has inspired me to host a Death Cafe. I want to create a space where people can feel comfortable discussing death without pressure or discomfort ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe in Bochum

Posted by LifeandDeath59 on Feb. 5, 2025, 9:42 a.m.



With Andrea Homersen

Feb. 22, 2025, 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. (MEZ)

Free


Talking about Death gives Death a chance to establish a new place in life. Death is as normal as Life. They have equal rights so to say. After having seen ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe Woodstock, Il

Posted by Janet Balboa on Feb. 4, 2025, 9:41 p.m.



With janet balboa

Feb. 12, 2025, 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (Cst/ central)

Accepts donations


Join us for a warm, open conversation about life and death in a supportive space. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to Death Cafe, followed by free-flowing discussion. Bring ...



Death Cafe: Open Door Death Cafe Suffern NY

Posted by Jill Greenbaum on Feb. 4, 2025, 7:07 p.m.



With Jill Greenbaum

Feb. 20, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (EST)

Free


Welcome to The Open Door Death Café, a space where people can engage in open, meaningful conversations about life, death, and living fully every day.



Death Cafe: Howard County Death Cafe

Posted by PaulDKang on Feb. 4, 2025, 8:36 a.m.



With Paul Kang

Feb. 28, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (EST)

Free


Death Cafe is for the living, where you focus on death in order to perceive life.

Death is the strangest, most natural phenomenon that none can avoid - yet we literally ...



Death Cafe: Death Cafe: hablemos de la muerte

Posted by PsicologiaHospiceSC on Feb. 4, 2025, 7:23 a.m.



With Hospice San Camilo

Feb. 13, 2025, 5.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GTM -5)

Free


Este es el primer Death Cafe de este año que se organizará invitando a la comunidad. 



Death Cafe: Death Cafe - UoC: Lancaster

Posted by Ingvar Árni Ingvarsson on Feb. 4, 2025, 7:22 a.m.


With Ingvar

Feb. 27, 2025, 12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. (GMT)

Free


This Death Cafe is aimed at undergraduate students who are undertaking health related courses at University of Cumbria. It is to encourage them to speak to others about death, dying ...



Death Cafe: Mornington Peninsula Death Cafe

Posted by Jen on Feb. 3, 2025, 5:58 p.m.



With Jen Ulyatt

Feb. 26, 2025, 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. (AUS)

Free


An open space is provided and held by Jen which is inclusive & non-judgemental. We talk about anything connected to end of life and death. Come along and be part of ...