A friend of mine is thinking of setting up a DeathCafe and dithering about starting. I gave her some advice. Perhaps it maybe useful to others? Here is is:
I think if you start up a Death Cafe with just one group of people around a table and then do ...
“Instead of telling a terminally ill person "there's nothing more we can do," what if doctors actually said something more like this:
My Dear Patient, we've come to a point in this journey where to continue with traditional interventions will more than likely not stop the progression of ...
We recently passed the major milestone of 1,000 Death Cafes :)
It is amazing to know that all over the world people are discussing death thanks to this work.
Thanks so much to everyone attending, organising or supporting Death Cafe.
We are all visitors
to this time, this place.
We are just
passing through.
Our purpose
here is to observe,
to learn, to grow.
to love...and then
we return home.
Sometimes couples learn to dance so well together that when one of them dies, the other can scarcely navigate the dance floor. To lose the love of one’s life is to feel like a part of us has been amputated. There is a vacancy, an emptiness that can never ...
On July 18th and 19th, 2014 we embarked on a journey through uncharted territory: hosting Death Cafe at a ranch with horses present as facilitators. If you are not familiar with equine facilitators, the very idea might sound preposterous, but these particular horses at Fifth Element Ranch have been trained ...
The subject of suicide is one of the most difficult and thorny aspects of death and dying. I have lost both family and friends to it in the past and I periodically struggle with depression and feelings surrounding suicide. I hope I remain strong enough to never be defeated by ...
Goodbye my soul sister, soul mate, best friend, and my "gutter girl". The depths of my sadness could never be explained. You being gone deeply hurts so much...but baby I am only holding on because you are somewhere beautiful, and fuck, you are so happy now. I feel your ...
First of all: my apologies if this post is poorly formatted; for reasons outside of my computer abilities or understanding, the darned thing is not playing ball.
As someone who has eschewed the religious doctrine of my youth and who now lives a secular life, it’s often very interesting ...
I have realised something.....I am very, very different to the person I used to be.
I wear masks, have attitude, and very often I don't care about anything. I simply don't care.
I am a force to be reckoned with because I have no fear anymore.
I ...
Found these two articles in the South China Morning Post back to back. I forgot the date. Sadly they speak to the universal nature of caregiver stress. I am thankful that there are social workers like Megan Mooney who are working on interventions to support caregivers. Megan's Caregiver Facebook ...
Found this in the South China Morning Post. I forgot the date. Imagine how desperate things would have to be to try to freeze yourself to death. Egads. This makes me sad.
Why can't people talk about it?
One thing that is guaranteed in this world is that we are all going to die and we're all going to lose people we love. Why then do we have such an inability to talk about death/grief and all the emotions ...
My favorite place to buy souvenirs is the grocery store. It is relatively inexpensive to buy a large number of gift items.
The other day Megan and I came across a Russian Roulette chocolate "game" here in Hong Kong. There are 12 chocolates in the box: 11 are tasty, and ...
