This New Year is the appropriate time to make a resolution; the occasion to link advance care planning with a spiritual legacy. People all have deep-seated values and determinations of what they are willing to pay for, live for and die for, but few actually document these for caregivers or ...
Dear Death Cafe London Supporter,
As you may know, our share offer closed on Saturday and I wanted to update you as to where we stand.
In total we raised £39,574 from 182 investors, amounting to the sale of 791 shares. Though substantial this is only 15% of our ...
“Death cafes have already had a tremendous impact, which is why we are very excited about plans to open a Death Cafe in London.”
Claire Henry, Chief Executive of the National Council for Palliative Care and the Dying Matters Coalition
“There should be spaces like this in every major city ...
Today is the half way period in our community share offer to open a ‘real’ Death Cafe in London. So far 140 investors have bought 670 shares at £50 each, raising over £33,500.
This is amazing and we’re sincerely grateful to everyone who has invested or supported the ...
Dear everyone,
Heartfelt thanks to all who have offered support during this first 2 weeks of this campaign to open a Death Cafe in London. We are really pleased with the positive feedback our proposal has received. It has certainly got people thinking!
There has been a significant amount of ...
Here are three questions I ask people who might be dying. There was a time when I wasn’t so direct until I realized that most people in the last year of life want to talk about dying. These questions help to establish a context for dying.
Context establishes meaning ...
Should the whole of nature fail
That would be a terrible dream
But God would see that it would prevail
Life through a living stream.
Thus runs my dreams living still
That life prevails beyond the grave,
Life empties after death the will
And the spirit but true to save ...
I want to add the following to my new book on Writing and Obituary Worth Reading. I'd be curious to get your feedback on this summary statement...Thanks
TALKING DEATH BECOMES MORE IMPERATIVE AND USEFUL
Bernard Crettaz a Swiss sociologist came up with the idea of a Café Mortels ...
You heard it here first. Plans are now underway to set up a real Death Café in central London - an inclusive café and events venue for people to explore all matters related to death and dying. You can read more about it here.
Our campaign has already got people talking ...
I would love to receive feedback from others who are working in the end-of-life field. I recently gave a presentation to a group of professionals who work with doctors and hospitals (I do not). I was informed that doctors are more and more frequently refusing to honor a patient's ...
Dear all,
Death Cafe Hampstead at Cafe Rouge has closed this week!
Our last Death Cafe was on Monday 29 June. It was a very good evening! We have held monthly Death Cafes at Cafe Rouge in Hampstead since April 2013, 25 Death Cafes, including the little filmed Death Cafe ...
Tl;dr: The project, to open a 'real' Death Cafe in London, is going great! To raise funds we’ll be offering community shares from October 2015. Please support us with encouragement and pledges or contact us to get involved.
There is good progress to report with the plan to ...
I hosted 2 Death Cafes, one in Hampstead at Cafe Rouge and one in Paddington on a narrowboat (with Sue Brayne). Both events were free. A third event, a Natural Death Salon on family-led funerals versus funeral director-led funerals, charging £15 for 3 hours, did not run due to lack ...
The Corpse Project hopes to make a contribution to the wider death debate by focussing specifically on the dead body -helping to promote greater public knowledge of our options and their impact.
We had a great opening discussion on May 21st, as part of Dying Matters Week 2015. We met ...
Death and the LGBT Community: When Culture is Not Defined by Country
By Cheryl Espinosa-Jones, M.S., M.F.T
www.weatheringgrief.com
Introduction
Although the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community has experienced a sea change in societal attitudes since the Stonewall riots in 1969 (considered the start ...