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Death Cafe write up: Belleville, IL Death Cafe
Posted by maggieboone on Aug. 29, 2017, 1:14 p.m.
Belleville Death Café Write-up 8/19/2017
Our session started out with the discussion about Rock Steady. Rock Steady is a boxing program for those who have Parkinson’s disease. Since one of our group has Parkinson’s, it was important information to us.
We then discussed the responsibilities of a funeral home when someone is planning a funeral. This also included the rights of an individual in said planning. This information was state specific so it only entailed those of us in Illinois. Another conversation included the fact that one can have a funeral in their own home. Funerals can be expensive and sometimes, without preplanning and ...
Practitioners question: Authentic Death Cafes revisited
Posted by Jools Barsky on Aug. 27, 2017, 5:55 a.m. 4 comments
Hi all,
Since I have been managing the admin on Death Cafe and keeping a closer eye on things, it has come to my attention that the below is still an issue.
Due to the growing awareness of Death Cafe and the inevitable changes we're now facing, it's ...
Practitioners question: Facilitating Question
Posted by deathdoulavt on Aug. 25, 2017, 12:16 p.m. 2 comments
Hello, I facilitated my first Death Cafe last night and it was a great turnout for our rural community. The evaluation forms were very helpful with great feedback. A few people suggested promts or topics to help with structure, which I know we don't do, I will explain that ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Iowa
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on Aug. 22, 2017, 10:41 a.m.
For our August’s Death Café Iowa we met at Hamilton’s on Westown Parkway in West Des Moines, Iowa. Carrie Bauer and Buffy Peters (members of the Young Bereavement Professionals Group) facilitated the group. There were 10 people in attendance, 8 women and 2 men, and participants ranged in ages and professions.
Because most of the group has been to our Death Café’s before introductions tended to focus on updates and thoughts since the last Death Café. Some topics that sprung were the importance of talking more openly about death, questions and ideas about what to include in wills, who should be the executor, family traditions ...
Death Cafe write up: Quincy's First Death Cafe
Posted by janejoy on Aug. 18, 2017, 1:05 p.m.
Hi Folks,
We are cancelling all future events in Quincy at least for now.
Both Priscilla and I have enjoyed hosting these events for the past year but no longer will be availalbe to do so for the forseeable future.
Thanks to all of you who participated so actively in our wonderful discussions.
Love and joy,
Jane
New Blog post: A Student of Death
Posted by Richard Wagner on Aug. 17, 2017, 10:48 a.m. 3 comments
“I want to celebrate my belief that living well and dying well are one and the same thing. I’m not talking about adjusting deathbed pillows so that dying people can strike heroic poses for the edification of onlookers. I’m talking about achieving a good death in the context of real dying – with all its unpredictability, disfigurement, pain, and sorrow.”
My name is Richard. I’m the founder of a nonprofit organization with an ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe - Sydney
Posted by April Lewis on Aug. 16, 2017, 10:06 p.m.
Feedback from 3 different ladies, for whom it was their first experience of a Death Cafe:
1) Thanks so much for hosting the Death Cafe on Tuesday. It was a great chance to explore ideas that most of us think or worry about at some point but don't necessarily get the opportunity to discuss. I felt it was a really safe, non-judgemental space where everyone was respected and I liked hearing people's different perspectives on the various issues we talked about. It certainly reframed the way I was looking at some things, and was very thought provoking. I hope to get back to another one at ...
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation ...
Practitioners question: Kubler-Ross, Moody, Adi Da and others
Posted by Teresa Hudson on Aug. 16, 2017, 7:49 p.m. 1 comment
Just wondering if other facilitators have read/are versed in the writings of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ("On Death and Dying"), Dr. Raymond Moody ("Life After Life"), Adi Da Samraj ("Easy Death") or Anya Foos-Graber ("Deathing") ? It would seem that a good grounding in such wisdom (as well as witnessing end-of-life experiences ...
Death Cafe write up: Chambana Death Cafe July 2017
Posted by Sherry Gilles on Aug. 12, 2017, 1:23 p.m.
Our most recent death café was held on July 15, 2017 at the Unity Church and Spiritual Center on Main Street in Urbana, Illinois.
This was the first death café I held since the death of the founder of Death Café and Impermance, Jon Underwood, died unexpectedly about a week before. I was shocked and managed, for this café, to get some pictures and shared a bit of his story before we got started.
Incidentally he had been working with a Buddhist temple to arrange death services and burials to be done there. They honoured him by making his funerary service their first.
There were a total of ...
New Blog post: From Birth To Death: The Four Phases Of Life From An Ancestral Perspective
Posted by ash_stevens on Aug. 10, 2017, 6:55 p.m.
The politicians and citizens of America proclaim that America is the greatest country in all the world. But take a look at our country’s rates of depression, drug abuse, disease, and incarceration and we see a side of America that isn’t so great.
Modern times have made life crazy. So, too, has our modern mentality. Today, some people live a dull life as an employee who works to pay off an ever-growing list ...
Press: Death Cafe serves up insights into life's end in Japan
Posted by Jools Barsky on Aug. 10, 2017, 6:45 p.m.
See more at: Kyodo News
Hello, I am hosting my first Death Cafe in a small community in Vermont. I am designing a flyer and am curious about the images that other people have used for their flyers. I have seen some that I would like to 'borrow', is it appropriate to contact the organizer ...
Practitioners question: Death Cafe with discussion on suicide?
Posted by berry on Aug. 8, 2017, 8 a.m. 2 comments
Hello! I attended my first Death Cafe last fall and it was such a good experience I wanted to host another one in our community. What I noticed in the first one is that people were comfortable talking about death, but suicide remained taboo. I am thinking I would like ...