The Dragon Boat Festival is called Duan Wu Jie in Chinese. Jie means festival. The festival is celebrated on the 5th of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The dragon is an ancient Chinese symbol of auspicious power. Just like at a Death Café and other great events ...
I went to Starbucks the other morning, my daily ritual, and started talking to a local named Raymond. I had taken some photos and asked him what they meant. We had a wonderful talk about death and dying and I told him all about the Death Café. He was very ...
This trip has not been without its challenges. The flights were super long and just as we would fall asleep, the flight attendants would come on intercom and make a series of announcements in three languages. When we got to Hong Kong, Megan's luggage was there. For me there ...
Tretraphobia, or fear of the number 4, is very real in Hong Kong. The elevators are missing the 4th and 13th floors. The superstition against the number 4 is due to its Cantonese similarity to the word for death. Here is an article about a current local controvery with the ...
Today we visited a store in Hong Kong that sold Joss paper (also known as ghost money) and other contemporary/westernized varieties of Joss paper that included paper currency, gambling coins, as well as paper clothes, houses, cars, toiletries, electronics and etc. Joss paper are sheets of paper and/or ...
I pulled up to KCI (the airport at Kansas City) to begin my travels and as soon as I arrived, the guy taking my luggage asked me about my Death Café t-shirt. I told him all about Death Café. I then went into the airport and began talking to numerous ...
Could anybody cast some light over the poem below as far as the author and why it was written?.
I heard that a Jewish lady settled in Canada after the second world war and confided her sadness to a lady friend of not being able to grieve for her mother ...
Megan flew in to Columbus today in preparation for our trip to Hong Kong. For dinner I took her to the Panera where the first Death Cafe in the United States was held.
When Sophie said her private good byes to her brother behind the ICU curtain she took this amazing photo. She never told us and then suddenly it appeared on her facebook page with these words:
"Will I can't describe how much I'm going to miss you. Through everything ...
* The touch of a loved one's hand can be more powerful than the strongest morphine.
* Despite disease, old age, and debilitation a woman can be beautiful.
* Loyalty and love can't fix everything, but that should never stop you from trying.
* There is nothing disrespectful about laughter, loud children ...
Having worked in the field of bereavement counseling for over a decade I thought I had pretty much understood the importance of involving children in the grieving process. Then one day a several years back, I found my family faced with the death of a much admired, much loved uncle ...
She was so excited when she shared the news with me that she was pregnant. A couple of hours later, I had a vision of her carrying a baby in her arms, swaddled in a blue blanket, a blue tuque on his head. It would be a boy! Motherhood was ...
Anita Larson discusses the Denver Death Cafe with Ryan Warner on Colorado Matters - Colorado Public Radio. Anita was contacted to be interviewed regarding their series about a Peaceful Ending.
http://www.cpr.org/news/story/death-cafes-rise-colorado
This was the fourth gathering at the Montpelier Death Café. While many faces in the room are becoming familiar, some are new. Our reasons for gathering are varied, some come because of the recent loss of a loved one, some because they appreciate an open space to talk about death ...