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Death Cafe write up: Tucson Death Cafe
Posted by tucsondeathcafe on Jan. 10, 2017, 6:03 p.m.
Tucson Death Cafe swashbuckles into 2017! A wonderful group of Tucsonan’s arrived at our new venue, Ward 6, for our first foray into 2017. Whether we grit our teeth or grin at death, the Grim Reaper finds hearty conversationalists in the Old Pueblo. We chuckled at death-busting patents of the past – like the 18th century “safety coffin,” which included breathing tube, bell and ladder - just in case! And if that appeals – modern variations on this idea are available today. We were beguiled by fascinating faraway holiday travel tales from the Paris catacombs, as well as the closer to home Houston National Funeral Museum and cemeteries of ...
New Blog post: Thoughts on death
Posted by Tish on Jan. 5, 2017, 9:25 p.m. 6 comments
Does anyone on here believe in heaven or hell? Reincarnation? Does it all just go dark? Do we even know that we died? What is the point of life if we just go out like a light with nothing but memories for family and friends? Just curious on others thoughts on this subject.. We all on here to talk about fear of death so maybe if i get other opions on how people thought.. I ...
Death Cafe write up: Hornby Island, BC Death Cafe V
Posted by Sylvia Sienikehä Elysiana on Jan. 5, 2017, 4:10 a.m.
Once again -- fantastic group, great conversation!
New Blog post: I Lost My Precious Mother On Mother's Day: Overwhelmed With Grief And Sorrow
Posted by RachelHenderson on Jan. 4, 2017, 9:58 p.m. 4 comments
Greetings my fellow Christian brothers and sisters,
I love to speak the truth and I have very serious questions that I think many believers would like to know the answer to. Can you tell me please why does God's word promise so much and yet fulfils so very little to nothing in the lives of many devout Christians, in terms of, for example: long life, health, peace, joy and happiness, etc? Instead, I've ...
Death Cafe write up: Swindon Death Cafe
Posted by Sue Holden on Jan. 3, 2017, 11:11 a.m.
Eight of us discussed how and why Christmas is not always the season to be jolly for everyone. Interesting to hear that everyone has some sad memory around this time of year. Life does not stop or discern Christmas from any other time of the year. Christmas can actually make life unnecessarily worse for some! Roll on January!
So i don't know how long I have been feeling fear of death. Off and on for awhile.. But lately i feel like its more.. I check my pulse all the time.. Everytime i am too hot or too cold i freak out.. I am afraid to fall asleep.. For fear of death. I am afraid to move or breath sometimes.. I used to like horror movies.. But anytime i watch them now i ...
Death Cafe write up: Chambana Death Cafe December 14, 2016
Posted by Sherry Gilles on Jan. 2, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Chambana Death Cafe was held on the evening on the fourteenth of December, 2016, at The Urbana Free Library in Urbana, IL.
There were six attendees; one could not appear in person. Four had never attended a death cafe before. Two were associated with the University of Illinois and death research is part of their jobs. One was also an Uber driver, one was retired and one woman, a nurse, stated she had authored a child's book on death and I got a peek at it before she left as her friend had it on hand. Finally the one who was in absentia had sent me a ...
Practitioners question: Host and facilitator
Posted by Bernadetta on Jan. 2, 2017, 2:26 p.m. 2 comments
Hello there and Happy New Year:)
I talked today about death quite a lot with a friend and realised how helpful it was to share the experience and stories.
It dawned me that a friend told me last year about a Death Cafe and that he would be interested if ...
Press: This group offers lively conversation about a deadly serious subject
Posted by Kelli Lyles on Jan. 1, 2017, 8:38 p.m. 1 comment
Lovely piece on our local Death Cafe. Big Thanks to Debbie Cafazzo (writer) and Peter Haley (photographer) for spending time with us, getting to know us, and sharing a beautiful story on who and what we are.
See more at: The News Tribune / www.thenewstribune.com
Link: Firmly on the side of the ordinary mortal – the Natural Death Centre
Posted by Josefine Speyer on Dec. 31, 2016, 3:41 p.m.
This is a brief article I wrote about the Natural Death Centre and the Lifetime Achievement Award it received in September this year.
The article appeared on the blog of the Kicking The Bucket Festival website. Kicking the Bucket is a month long festival held in Oxford in October every ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Cape Town
Posted by MortalMonday on Dec. 29, 2016, 3:52 a.m.
Thirty people attended our first Death Café at The Dining Room in Cape Town – the perfect venue. Mostly strangers to each other, the feedback (gathered afterwards via email) was very encouraging, and provided some good pointers to our next café, the date yet to be confirmed, either the 23rd of January or 6th of February, 2017.
People arrived (early!) and had the opportunity to write a word or slang phrase for death on the wall, or mingle while they waited for others. Already, there was an excitement in the room. Everyone chose a random slip of paper with a number on it – this was the number ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe: Bradford on Avon Marina
Posted by mysticmoon on Dec. 20, 2016, 12:40 p.m.
I have purposefully not published this blog until the Winter Solstice. The Solstice is about the bringing back of the light. I believe death cafes do just that. They bring people together to shed light on the darkness and fear of death. So, this blog is to wish all of you who read it a happy Solstice, and to remind you that even in the depth of winter and in the depth of whatever darkness you may experience in life, the Light is always there, waiting for you.
November is a cosy time to hold a pop-up death café on Mystic Moon. The sun was already sinking as ...
Practitioners question: Qualitative research on the Death Cafe experience: looking for participants!
Posted by Death Cafe - Fremantle on Dec. 19, 2016, 10:48 p.m. 4 comments
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Attention all Death Cafe participants!
Possibly for the first time since its humble beginnings in September, 2011, research on your experiences of participating in the Death Cafe movement has finally arrived!
For those of you haven’t heard of me, I am a Counsellor and Behavioural Scientist living in Western ... |
Death Cafe write up: Tucson Death Cafe
Posted by tucsondeathcafe on Dec. 19, 2016, 7:38 p.m.
Our Halloween Friendly and Fearless Tucson Death Café was spook-tackular! Several attendees came in alternate visage among them, Witch, Pumpkin, Butterfly Angel, and Pagan Priestess (in her own skin) celebrating the eve of the Celtic New Year - Samhain - with us. Many thanks to the Bride of the Dead who appeared bearing a scary good chocolate spider cake! Our most enigmatic guest was Death “herself.” She was cloaked in black with a golden skull mask and was engaged, beguiling, and fittingly mysterious slipping away at Café’s close without ever uttering a word!
Our topics of interest turned to how awkward knowing what “the right” thing to say is ...
Death Cafe write up: Tucson Death Cafe
Posted by tucsondeathcafe on Dec. 19, 2016, 7:13 p.m.
December brought a beautiful close to a big year of Tucson Death Cafes. We shared thoughts on how to steward conversations on death and dying with family and friends, on death with dignity with and without the layer of legislation, and about pet grief – sharing that loss of beloved companion animals can be socially disenfranchised, but equally as difficult as loss of humans. We had a rich “everything else” breakout group and shared that although Death Café’s are not grief support groups, crying is a normal expression and tissues are always available. We talked about poet and musician Leonard Cohen’s recent departure and how it seemed ...