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Death Cafe write up: Montpelier Death Cafe
Posted by MontpelierDeathCafe on March 4, 2016, 2:46 p.m.
February 2016 Death Cafe
Post Meeting Musings
"The stories we tell in death cafe can have tremendous power in our outside lives"
The relationship between grief and death is obvious, but the relationship between grief and life is much more complex. After all, not matter what the source, grief is the burden of the living. Grief, then, becomes a question of identity. The challenge is how we move through grief, accepting the changes that precipitated it, and finding a new way to come into relationship with ourselves.
Our small group this meeting was one quite familiar with grief and everyone had something to share. "Grief is what happens ...
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to organize a Death Café in my city.
We're calling it Death Café but want to have a Portuguese translation as well. Would it be OK for us to use the Portuguese name with the Death Café logo?
New Blog post: Death Cafe Toronto: A Space to Talk About Life & Death
Posted by Linda Stuart on Feb. 29, 2016, 1:37 p.m. 2 comments
“Mom, you’re SO weird,” my youngest son announced when he heard of my plans to organize and host Toronto’s first Death Café.
At the time he was 20 and stared at me with big eyes and disbelief as if he pictured me dressed goth-style with ultra-pale skin and black lipstick.
“I don’t get it,” he said. “Why would you want to sit around and talk about death with complete strangers?”
I guess ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Calgary
Posted by Death Cafe Calgary on Feb. 28, 2016, 6:01 p.m.
There were 21 people at Death Café Calgary sharing conversations about their personal stories and widely varying points of view. The beauty of these cafes is that they provide space for diverse experiences and observations of experiences. If death cannot spark this type of dialogue, what could? Thank you death for your lessons and for your insistence in reaching one another in these deep moments of living. Thank you Calgary community for showing up. And thank you Caffé Artigianno for your beautiful space and delightful service.
Death Cafe write up: Belleville, IL Death Cafe
Posted by maggieboone on Feb. 28, 2016, 1:06 p.m.
We were pleased to welcome 8 new participants into the fold. These new members had read a recently published article about the death cafe in the Belleville News-Democrat. We began the meeting with introductions since there were so many new participants. Each were asked to provide their name and their reasons for joining our Death Cafe discussion.
We discussed green burials using mushroom spores which aid in decomp of bodies. This may be an alternative for the overcrowding of the available cemeteries.
The discussion then went to voluntary sharing of the first encounter with death and how the family embraced (or not) it. It was interesting to note ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe, Wrexham
Posted by Kim on Feb. 28, 2016, 10:29 a.m. 1 comment
Denise and I are pleased and proud to report that we has 20 participants for our first, and wrexham's first, Death Cafe in Gresford. The BBC heard about it and popped along to take some pictures and interview Denise and I and a couple of the participants. People came from Liverpool, North west Wales, Flintshire and Wrexham. It was a wonderfully generous, warm and insughtful morning with lots of laughter amid the discussions and challenged some our own assumptions and beliefs.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe-London Ontario
Posted by shancalv on Feb. 25, 2016, 8:15 p.m.
Death Cafe write up: SW London Death Cafe
Posted by Suzanne Michal on Feb. 24, 2016, 11:58 a.m.
We were only four around one table with one candle! By the time our introduction were completed we were already engaged in heart to heart exchanges. We were lucky to have a palliative doctore who shared many beatufiul tales of last days to patients in the hospice where she works. I was touched by the young couple who finished our quatuor dedicated to promote healthy attitudes to death and dying.
Another special death cafe evening!
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Linz, Austria - Mit dem Tod bei Kaffee und Kuchen
Posted by Galyoureonmymind on Feb. 22, 2016, 5:37 a.m.
About 12 people showed up. So the three cakes plus fruit and bite-sized bundt cakes were more than enough.
Huge differences in who we were to those we lost: parent, sibling, child, friend, neigbor or even stranger. Yes, the death of someone you don't know very well can have a great effect on you.
It was my first time, but it won't be my last. I didn't expect much too be honest, which is why I worried more about the cake - would people eat it, would people like it? - than the actual event.
I was suprised how much the whole thing moved me. Other people ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Grants Pass
Posted by grantspass on Feb. 21, 2016, 8:06 p.m. 1 comment
About 12 people attended our most recent Death Café. A few were attending for the first time but, most were returning from previous Death Café events to continue the conversation. The conversations are always lively and full of new discoveries about a wide range of topics. Some of the topics discussed at this last gathering included: near-death experiences, recieving some kind of communication from loved ones who have passed over, what do we want done with our bodies when we die, how the process of dying informs how we choose to live our lives etc. Usually folks find plenty to talk about and the respectful environment created here ...
See more at: Vancouver Courier
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Istanbul
Posted by Selen Caglayik Eloglu on Feb. 19, 2016, 12:16 p.m. 1 comment
It was the first of its kind in Turkey and I am proud to have organized it!
We were a lovely group of 9, people came, ate cake, laughed and shared wonderful insight.
We had deep philosophical discussions about what awaits us after we die and we also commented on each other's personal thoughts.
Looking forward to organizing another one.