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Practitioners question: A great problem....
Posted by Laura Burton on Jan. 27, 2017, 9:30 p.m. 4 comments
So how do you deal with a big group?! Tonight was out first Death Cafe and 40 people came! Wow! Our space can fit that many but I'm worried it's too many to really talk. Does anyone else have big groups? Do you divide them up?
New Blog post: End Friends: No One Dies Alone
Posted by Sue Klefstad on Jan. 25, 2017, 7:14 p.m.
No one dies alone.
No One Dies Alone is a great organization that puts a living breathing human at the bedside of a dying person, but I’m talking about End Friends, psychopomps, beings that help with the transition of death.
I became aware of End Friends when my father was in critical care and I was in a nearby hotel room struggling with a thorny problem. The problem suddenly righted itself, and just as ...
Has anyone used these cards? Produced by the Church of England to encourage conversations about death and dying - I wondered how they woudk fit in with the Death Cafe ethos, and non facilitating facilitation role
Practitioners question: Professional interest in death cafes
Posted by Cathryn on Jan. 25, 2017, 5:54 a.m. 1 comment
Hi
I am organising my first cafe in Leicester, and have had a really good response in the couple of days it has been live. However quite a few of the contacts are from people with a professional interest in death and dying - doing research, involved in projects etc. I ...
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!