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About this Death Cafe

A prison sentence doesn't just inturrupt  a life - it inturrupts grieving. The loss of family, of networks, being romved from friends and home - all the ritual around grief and normal death is taken away. Add to that the trauma in prisoner lives long before they enter prison, trauma that often led them to their sentence, and you have a recipe for some heavy souls and burdened shoulders.

There is mental health help and therapies, of course, but there isn't opportunity for just some ordinary conversation - without goal, or point. A time to just BE. And to be a little bit vulnerable. Death cafe, in its nature, is free of focus. It's just a chat - with some cake and tea. It's also a chance for me to put my nurse hat down and be a true peer. 

There is no other group that I could think of that could need this more, and I am honoured to be a part of it. 

About Candy Penfold

Candy Penfold is a staff nurse working in offender healthcare. She is a trained end of life doula, and has run death cafes since 2018, in the community in Medway, Kent, online over zoom during Covid-19 lockdown, and now within the prison service.

She lives in Kent, UK with her family, her cat and her dog. 

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