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New Blog post: Using social media to support an in-person Death Cafe
Posted by Bonnington Centre Death Cafe on April 13, 2025, 11:18 a.m.
Using social media to support an in-person Death Cafe
Following why and how we set up a Death Café, this is a blog about our two-year experience of using WhatsApp. We created two groups in order to support the face-to-face Death Cafe discussions: one was for the facilitators, and the other for attendees.
Administration
Looking back on our postings, it’s clear that the facilitator WhatsApp group mostly covers practicalities with the Community Centre and ...
Death Cafe write up: Portland, OR Thursday Evening Death Cafe
Posted by nomenoyou1 on April 12, 2025, 10:31 a.m.
Death Cafe: Death Cafe Deep South - South Africa
Posted by DeathCafeDeepSouth on April 12, 2025, 8:24 a.m.
With Svea, Dialina and Mary
Dec. 8, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GMT+2)
Please join us for our next meeting at Fish Hoek Library Hall. Entrance is as if you were coming to the Library.
We will provide tea (Ceylon, Rooibos), coffee (filter ...
New Blog post: Death Cafe Essen celebrates a successful premiere at Unperfekthaus
Posted by Deathcafe Essen on April 11, 2025, 8:02 a.m.
A lively place for conversations about death, grief and life. Under this motto, the first Death Cafe took place last Saturday at Unperfekthaus in Essen.
At the premiere on 5. November 2022, five people took part in addition to the Holy Grief Art management team. "We are pleased that the pilot event was so well received by the participants. Everyone who was there was able to take something for themselves and would be happy to ...
Death Cafe write up: Venice, FL Death Cafe - an important conversation
Posted by finaljourneydoula on April 7, 2025, 11:49 a.m.
Our Death Cafe event held over 15 people. Our room was cozy and everyone shared thoughts, experiences, and beliefs. We had plenty of treats and refreshments. I also put on display some resources (provided by the National Institutes of Health) and library books for attendees to explore if desired.
A few attendees told me how meaningful it was for them. That's what this is all about!
We plan to hold a Death Cafe in the same location quarterly, so the next one is in July and then again in October. We have a lot of 'snowbirds' who leave hot and humid Florida in the summer so there ...
Death Cafe: Hastings Death Cafe
Posted by Pauline de la Fuente and Lou Requena on April 6, 2025, 5:12 a.m.
With Pauline de la Fuente and Lou Requena
Jan. 28, 2026, 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. (UK)
Our Death Cafe is free to attend, any refreshments are payable to Bullet but purchasing them is optional. We gather to have far ranging discussions about death and dying and ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe North Canterbury
Posted by Death Cafe North Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand on April 5, 2025, 12:31 a.m.
Death Café was at The Plough Hotel in March due to renos at the library, and this changed the landscape somewhat – wine and coke instead of tea and coffee! But, as always, everything worked out perfectly as we were welcomed to the Explorer room. Anna and I were joined by two men and the conversation was deep, sad, informed and very special. We delved into personal experience, choices and consequences.
Death Cafe write up: Huntly Death Cafe
Posted by Grampian_Death_Cafe on April 4, 2025, 8:43 a.m.
The change of dat/time/venue brought new participants and all were keen to participat in the lively discussion.
Topics touched on were:
* grief not being experienced in direct correlation to the depth of the relationship
* how thinking about death can help us make the most of our lives
* denial
* use of A! at funerals
*DNRs - fighting for them, fighting against them
* MAID in Canada
and several more.
The cake was a gluten free carrot cake, topped with Philly cheese, baked by Anne!
Death Cafe write up: Virtual Death Cafe - PDT North Coast Oregon
Posted by Alicia Garrison on April 3, 2025, 12:38 p.m.
This was my first time hosting a Death Café, and overall, I think it went well. We had a total of six participants, though one person left early due to feeling unwell.
Discussion & Experience:
The conversation flowed naturally, covering general feelings about death, personal connections to it, and what was coming up for us around the topic. One participant shared a beautiful poem she had written, which added a deeply personal and reflective element to the discussion.
Participants described the Death Café as interesting, engaging, and informative. One attendee shared that they always gain new perspectives when attending these conversations.
Challenges & Adjustments:
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There was a small hiccup when ...
With Ka Yun Cheng
Dec. 8, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (PST)
Join local facilitators in the Program Room at the Sunnyvale Public Library for a discussion of death over tea and snacks.
At a Death Cafe, people - often strangers - gather to ...
Death Cafe write up: Chesapeake Bay Death Cafe
Posted by Carey Palmquist on March 31, 2025, 8:15 a.m.
We had ten attendees, both male and female with a variety of ages. The group was intimate and shared so much interesting information about their experiences with death and dying. I was amazed by the open vulnerability to the very personal experiences of the attendees.
We will make this a monthly forum for the discussion of death and dying. It seemed cathartic for us all.
With Kerry Johnston
Dec. 6, 2025, 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (Australian Eastern Daylight time)
To provide an opportunity for people to join a conversation -or just listen -about death and dying
Death Cafe write up: Virtual Death Cafe Albany, CA USA PST
Posted by JimKirkpatrick on March 24, 2025, 11:58 a.m.
Genevieve Harvey and Jim Kirkpatrick have co hosted this cafe since 2022. This Death Cafe is usually attended by men and women throughout the US and some from Canada and Europe. We were joined by four women and two men from Canada, London, North and South East USA, Midwest and CA. Topics are always introduced by participants. Hosts do not bring an agenda. We expressed our gratitude for Death Cafe and explored what keeps us in attendance and how our meetings' attendance has changed how we live, think and feel. We described greater acceptance of our mortality, more knowledge, appreciation of the safe atmosphere to express our authentic ...
Death Cafe write up: Edinburgh Heart of Newhaven Death Cafe
Posted by LomondBob on March 24, 2025, 4:25 a.m.
12 people attended including 6 new.
Discussion in 3 groups, changing at half time. Topics included how to open the conversation within the family, assisted dying, how to hold a death cafe and cultural aspects of death and dying.
All feedback was positive.
There were also book recommendations and helpful organisations.
Death Cafe: Sacred Threshold Online Death Cafe PST
Posted by Pamela Rathbun on March 22, 2025, 5 p.m.
With Pamela Rathbun
Dec. 16, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (PST)
I am hosting an online Death Café to create a sacred space for open, honest conversations about death—helping others embrace mortality, release fear, and live more fully.
Join me ...