Posted by Yvonne123
Hosted by Teresa Blemings
Date: | July 28, 2025 |
Start time: | 5:30 p.m. (EDT) |
End time: | 7:30 p.m. (EDT) |
Status: | Forthcoming |
Contact the organiser | |
Address: |
Southwest Regional Library 3605 Shannon Road Durham North Carolina 27707 27707 United States |
Free |
About this Death Cafe
Future Meeting Dates:
July 28, 2025 (day after Memorial Day)
Fourth Monday of each month unless otherwise stated.
About Teresa Blemings
Minutes of recent Meeting:
Eco-conscious post-death options:
Green burial: one local option is Bluestem Conservation Cemetery in Hurdle Mills: https://www.bluestemcemetery.org/
Aquamation: offered locally at Endswell in Hillsborough
Discussion of signing around death:
"More to this" by Mark Scibilia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWBbhFzGg8g
ThresholdChoir:
End of life planning topics touched on:
5 Wishes
Rethinking having more than medical decision maker (Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare) due to possible conflicting opinions
End of life/deathdoula:
VSED: https://compassionandchoices.org/resource/facts-about-voluntarily-stopping-eating-and-drinking-vsed/
Cost of care / dementia care, several recent NY Times articles on dementia (paywall)
How to bring a 3rd party (doula, case manager/care coordinator, etc.) into a family death process?
How to open conversations about end of life with family/friends: Death Cards, Death over Dinner
Other resources mentioned:
Center for Practical Bioethics: https://www.practicalbioethics.org/
CLARA method of conflict descalation: https://www.boundlessloveproject.org/news/2020/9/24/the-clara-method-of-de-escalation
Non-violent Communication: https://www.cnvc.org/learn/what-is-nvc
Palliative Care:
Related events mentioned:
1. Death Cafe Noire:
2. End of Life Planning Workshop:
Contact the organiser of this Death Cafe