Latest Death Cafe News
Death Cafe write up: Belleville, IL Death Cafe
Posted by maggieboone on July 6, 2015, 9:25 a.m.
Death Café 6/27/2015 6pm – 8pm CST
The 3rd Death Café hosted by Sharon Egler at the Miscellanea House Café was held on June 27th. There were a few more attendees that are new. A Southern Illinois Hospice representative and an actual medium attended along with the regular attendees which made for an interesting discussion centered around closure after the death of a loved one and moved to new ways of memorializing their lives.
Sharon had done some research and found some methods of memorializing such as stained glass pieces bonded with cremains, Human DNA trees (Biopresence apparently claim to transcode human DNA into trees ...
New Blog post: Death Cafe Hampstead at Cafe Rouge has closed!
Posted by Josefine Speyer on July 5, 2015, 4:59 a.m.
Dear all,
Death Cafe Hampstead at Cafe Rouge has closed this week!
Our last Death Cafe was on Monday 29 June. It was a very good evening! We have held monthly Death Cafes at Cafe Rouge in Hampstead since April 2013, 25 Death Cafes, including the little filmed Death Cafe we held for Metro, see below.
The reason for the closure is that the venue costs have not been met in recent times and due ...
Death Cafe write up: Canterbury Death Cafe
Posted by AdrianAdams on July 2, 2015, 4 a.m.
Our second Death Café had a smaller turn out than our initial meeting. We had a number of apologies, although we also welcomed some new members with an age range of between 20 and 80.
In spite or perhaps because of the smaller number we had a more focused discussion that centred on the topic of how we can prepare ourselves and others for our own death. We shared personal experiences and explored a number of issues including: different and shifting cultural, gendered and generational expectations about familial responsibilities, independence and the willingness to give and accept help towards the end of life.
We talked about the need ...
Practitioners question: Death Cafe in a Retirement Village
Posted by Death Cafe Warkworth on June 30, 2015, 8:25 p.m. 1 comment
Hi, Just planning to hold a death cafe in a Retirement village (which does have a cafe) and wondered if anyone else has done this? How did it go? The other suggestion I might follow up on is to hold one at a secondary school. Anyone done this? Would really ...
This important work by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley is a must-read for any hospice practitioner and/or family member of someone who is dying who would like to understand what your loved one is going through. One of the most interesting things I learned from this book is that ...
Death Cafe write up: St. George, Maine Death Cafe II
Posted by Sylvia Sienikehä Elysiana on June 29, 2015, 10:21 p.m.
A beautiful gathering of amazing women (and one amazing man!) Conversation covered bizarre funeral practices, funny death stories, personal sharings. Tea and coffee served with a skull shaped organic chocolate cake.
Death Cafe write up: Lawrence Death Cafe
Posted by CW on June 28, 2015, 4:23 p.m.
We had a terrific Lawrence Death Cafe yesterday, Saturday June 27th with 17 people attending our meeting at the Lawrence Public Library. Several people brought snacks and the variety of topics was fascinating. We all look forward to our July Lawrence Death Cafe!
Death Cafe write up: Derby Death Cafe
Posted by timdowdell on June 27, 2015, 5:52 a.m.
Lovely relaxed atmosphere where everyone felt at ease, we even had a lady join us who didnt know about the Cafe but was in the cafe just before it sarted and decided to stay for a chat.
We even had the local paper turn up and do a write-up, which is wonderful news for Cafe's everywhere.
At the cafe we discussed lots of issues from embalming and how people can help with the final stages of dressing the deceased moving on to talk about open coffins. We touched on care in hospitals and how many people are living to extreme old age.
People commented on how they ...
Long ago there was a Death Cafe blog post that mentioned how Barbara Karnes RN's book GONE FROM MY SIGHT helped a group of people. She's amazing. Here's an interview that just came out with her talking about how dying isn't a medical event. It's ...
https://soundcloud.com/bk-books/barbara-karnes-and-demedicalizing-dying
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Bishop's Stortford
Posted by Nicola Sheehan, DC Poulton & Sons on June 26, 2015, 5:45 a.m.
"I'm not sure about the name"
"I don't like the skull on the teacup"
"But I'm not bereaved..."
I'll admit it, I was nervous.
In all honesty I had had many positive comments as I tried to spread the word about Death Cafe Bishop's Stortford but it is human (well it is certainly Nicola) to focus on the negative and expect a disaster.
'Plan for the worst, hope for the best' is something of a motto for me and in this instance my hope was well founded.
12 of us gathered in the lovely garden room of Great Hadham Golf Club, the evening ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Ocala
Posted by Teddy on June 25, 2015, 5:18 p.m.
As our small group of "regulars" got together today, we decided to watch a couple of TedTalks on YouTube about death and dying in different cultures.
Will post them on our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/DeathCafeOcala
Getting close to our two years anniversary and still having fun :-)
Teddy
New Blog post: Death Cafe London - share offer to go live in October 2015
Posted by Jon Underwood on June 24, 2015, 11:23 a.m. 9 comments
Tl;dr: The project, to open a 'real' Death Cafe in London, is going great! To raise funds we’ll be offering community shares from October 2015. Please support us with encouragement and pledges or contact us to get involved.
There is good progress to report with the plan to open a ‘real’ Death Cafe in London :)
If you have not heard about this before, we’re working to open a coffee and events venue ...
Press: Welcome to the Death Cafe: Where people go for a drink and talk about dying
Posted by Josefine Speyer on June 24, 2015, 1:46 a.m.
I host monthly meetings of Death Cafes in this lovely large space at Cafe Rouge in Hampstead and this Death Cafe was especially set up to be filmed for Metro.co.uk, the online branch of the London freebie news paper everyone reads on the underground.
We had an interesting ...
See more at: metro.co.uk
When we set up The Natural Death Centre Charity in 1991 Nicholas Albery and I were inspired by Sheila Kitzinger and the Natural Birth Movement. Like her we think birth and death are similar events and require a similar attitude. I am so glad Sheila had a home death and ...
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/19/how-to-plan-for-a-good-death-sheila-kitzinger