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Death Cafe write up: Lebanon County Death Cafe
Posted by BLLLINK on Jan. 21, 2017, 8:10 p.m.
Twenty intrepid souls showed up at the Lebanon Community Library for two hours of scintillating converstion.
Very engaging and caring talks.
Tasty cookies, too.
Death Cafe write up: Lancaster County's first Death Cafe of the new year
Posted by BLLLINK on Jan. 21, 2017, 7:59 p.m.
What a delightful afternoon at the gorgeous Manheim Township Public Library. Caring, compassionate and sincere conversations and wonderful cakes, coffee and tea.
They await us on the other side with open arms. And we will arrive saying WOW what a ride that was. I will be in no hurry to come back here again, but I know I will have to, again and again and again.
Lozzi
I believe many things await us when we have done our work here and move on to the next stage of our spiritual journey.
New Blog post: life after death
Posted by lozzi on Jan. 21, 2017, 3:27 a.m. 5 comments
Well I do believe that when we leave here (the physical world) we move on to the next stage. It is like we progress spiritually, and although our physical body dies, our soul, consciousness, and energy survives. We have now reached the after life. I think the Buddhists have summed it up, that we have died many times, and will continue to be reborn until we have learnt the lessons that we came here to ...
Death Cafe write up: Highcliffe Death Cafe
Posted by Lis Horwich on Jan. 20, 2017, 8:12 a.m.
Highcliffe Death Cafe had a most interesting afternoon with 9 people in total with some beautiful connections. Thank you everyone for coming along and open your heart to discuss what is close to you right now at the start of 2017.
Mentioned Joe Bakewell and her interesting radio 4 series recently. She mentioned Compassionate Neighbours watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zDO6_O2QM. We talked about sibling death and how society rather forget as a sibling we also mourn, it is not just the partner, children og parents!
We touched upon Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) read here: https://www.scie.org.uk/publications/ataglance/ataglance43.asp ...
Death Cafe write up: Newport (IoW) Death Cafe
Posted by nickwilde@ntlworld.com on Jan. 19, 2017, 6:05 a.m.
14 people attended the first Death Cafe held in Newport but we were pleased to welcome Marion from the weeklt Death Chat which is held at the Louis Mountbatten Hospice every Wednesday evening. Death Chat is run along similar lines and it was interesting the hear of their experiences. There was a lively discussion across a range of related issues.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Ocala
Posted by Teddy on Jan. 19, 2017, 5:43 a.m.
After having facilitated Death Cafe Ocala since late 2013, the past year has been very slow.
We had hoped, that movping our meetings to the other side of town, where there are a lot of retirement communities, would have more people come and attend our meetings.
We started meeting in the Choir room of a church. Signed on with MeetUp, in order to make it easier for people to find out about us.
In addition to a monthly Death Cafe meeting, we spun off a second group with a less confrontational sounding name "Peaceful Passing", where we offer guest-speakers, or watch a video about various aspects of death ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Newtown
Posted by Melissa Halliday on Jan. 19, 2017, 4:27 a.m.
Fascinating discussions this November Death Cafe that ranged from the issues of being cremated with mercury fillings that pollute the atmosphere to being buried in a mushroom suit that breaks down toxic chemicals and other forms of body disposal that are sustainable from being made into liquid fertiliser or dried through processes such as aquamession/promession to being buried with a tree seedling in an organic pod that breaks down over time; spoiled for choices we are now!
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in White River Junction, VT
Posted by Cynthia Stadler on Jan. 18, 2017, 5:21 p.m.
Great group of 9 participants- all newcomers to the Death Cafe. We had tea and almonds and clementines and cookies and talked about dying green, creating an end of life bibliography, fears around death and a variety of other things. We brainstormed about how to get the word out.
Inspiring for all!
New Blog post: An expression of thanks
Posted by Aileen on Jan. 18, 2017, 1:22 p.m. 1 comment
Since I just entered the dates for the Death Cafe in Linz, Austria, in January, February, March, and April, I want to take a moment to express my thanks for this wonderful format. Every time I add another Death Cafe to the web site here and come to the question at the end about adhering to the guidelines, I hesitate, I think about it again, before I click on “I agree”. I do, in fact ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe at Serenbe
Posted by Alfredo Ovalle on Jan. 15, 2017, 8:09 p.m.
We have a beautiful gathering at Serenbe, GA and spoke openly about our death and the impact that some love ones that pass away have on us.
the importance in talking about death and that is critical to get familiar with wills and advance directives
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Winnipeg, MB
Posted by Dianne Baker on Jan. 13, 2017, 6:36 p.m.
We had a really fine evening of tea and conversation, cake and death talk! there were 37 people in attendance, and the conversation was enriching, respectful and encouraging. For nearly everyone, this was first experience at a Death Cafe. Several Death Cafe events have been held in Winnipeg over the last several years, but it was new to almost everyone. There was a great diversity of ages, from older teens and University students to rather elder retired folks.
We offered folks the opportunity to leave their email addresses to be notified directly of any future Death Cafes, and 14 people took us up on that. We are adamant ...