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Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe
Posted by ayalynn on Jan. 9, 2025, 7:21 p.m.
Death Cafe write up: City of Roses Death Cafe Portland OR
Posted by nomenoyou1 on Jan. 7, 2025, 3:42 p.m.
Our final City of Roses Death Cafe of 2024 had 19 participants divided between three tables.
One table discussed the challenges of living with a terminal cancer diagnosis including deciding whether the benefits of life extending maintenance chemotherapy outweighed the physical consequences (quantity or quality of life?), the difficulty of discussing one's diagnosis and its implications with family and friends, and responding to hurtful, but well-intentioned responses ("I had a friend who had that cancer and they . . . ") We also discussed living with grief when a sibling dies. Stephen Jenkinson's Die Wise was came up more than once.
Another table’s discussion centered a lot about feelings ...
New Blog post: The Art of Dying Well.
Posted by zeland2645 on Jan. 6, 2025, 12:37 a.m.
"We are born to die. This inevitable fact could lead to fatalism, although, more often, we simply fall into denial. We avoid thinking about death and stigmatize it as the greatest evil.
If this world is all we have, then death would be the greatest evil, although life itself would become futile, a temporary illusion — grasping pleasure as it slips through our fingers.
For a Christian, however, we are born to live. The inevitability of ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe North Canterbury
Posted by Death Cafe North Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand on Jan. 2, 2025, 8:02 p.m.
Today was a small group of 4, and no co-facilitator – I was flying solo! I was pleased to see a few people who returned for more Death Café as we delved deeper into some familiar topics such as how to handle grief and the compounding grief of dealing with the health system. It was a tender chat and a memorable meeting, and the last of 2024.
Death Café dates for 2025:
Kaiapoi:
February 16th
May 18th
September 21st
Rangiora:
March 23rd
June 29th
October 26th
Amberley
April 27th
July 20th
November 23rd
Stay well, Liz
Death Cafe: Online Death Cafe with the Doulas EST
Posted by DyingMatters.ca on Dec. 30, 2024, 6:10 p.m.
With Olga Nikolajev
Dec. 28, 2025, 9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. (EST)
Death Cafe: Online Death Cafe with the Doulas EST
Posted by DyingMatters.ca on Dec. 30, 2024, 6:09 p.m.
With Olga Nikolajev
Jan. 25, 2026, 9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. (EST)
Death Cafe: Online Death Cafe with the Doulas EST
Posted by DyingMatters.ca on Dec. 30, 2024, 6:07 p.m.
With Olga Nikolajev
Feb. 22, 2026, 9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. (EST)
New Blog post: Seasons Greetings
Posted by Karsten Speckin on Dec. 29, 2024, 8:01 a.m.
Dear Deathcafe Community,
we hope you had a nice Chitstmas and we wish all the best for New Year!
The photo shows the flower bowl on the grave of my beloved father. With fir branch with christmas decoration and winterflowers. inthe foreground you can see a candle light-.
With Hamilton's Academy of Grief and Loss
Dec. 16, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (Central)
Death Cafe Iowa has been a monthly gathering since October 2015. This Death Cafe went virtual with the pandemic and has stayed so that people from anywhere can join us ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Iowa
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on Dec. 19, 2024, 11:47 a.m.
Our most recent Death Café was held December 17th and had 4 people in attendance. We touched on a handful of topics, beginning with alternatives for final disposition. This included having one’s cremated remains turned into a reef ball (a concrete structure that’s used to bury cremated remains in the ocean), having them sent to outer space in a rocket, and various other places and spaces one can use to store and scatter cremated remains. We also touched on the concept of making a preplan and the benefits that come from doing so. We ended the conversation with the importance of talking to children about ...
Death Cafe write up: Austin Death Cafe: Conversations on Change, Loss, and Renewal
Posted by Lauren Terry on Dec. 14, 2024, 1:59 a.m.
Come together for an evening of open dialogue and reflection at SquareRüt Kava Bar, a safe third space where connection and understanding thrive. This Death Cafe invites you to explore universal themes of change, loss, grief, and renewal in a supportive and welcoming space.
This gathering is hosted by:
✨ @emotion.l.contagion (Lauren) – A Trauma-Informed Reiki Master Practitioner offering a grounded and compassionate perspective.
With Louis Gallia MD
Dec. 10, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (PST)
About Death Cafe:
In 2010, Jon Underwood decided to develop a series of projects about death, one of which was to focus about talking about death.
In September 2011, the ...
Death Cafe: Portland, OR Thursday Evening Death Cafe
Posted by nomenoyou1 on Dec. 9, 2024, 10:34 a.m.
With City of Roses Death Cafe
Dec. 11, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (PST)
A Death Cafe is an open and respectful conversation about the topic of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. We will introduce ourselves, including what brought each of us ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Park Ridge Qld Australia
Posted by Kate Leotta on Dec. 6, 2024, 2:16 a.m.
A small gathering but full of rich discussion that went on for sometime.
After attendees dove into a lucky dip of icebreaker questions in the living, dying, death space, conversation flowed:
Cremation/Body Disposition in Japanese, Philippine and other cultures.
Being laid to rest on country or other ancestral lands.
The pros and cons of VAD, also organ donation.
The issues with prolonging life, medical models, funeral models.
Death is a human event not just a medical and profit driven one.
Talk of living wakes, living to the full after a terminal diagnosis, dying at home, vigils, rituals, home funerals.
Having choice and control for dying and death ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Whangarei
Posted by Jo Moselen on Dec. 4, 2024, 2:53 p.m.
We were a small group of three plus the two organisers, this made for a relaxed and intimate conversation which included planning for a funeral, changes to the assisted dying bill, fear around dying, embalming, colonisation and funeral practices. The attendees were all people who had been to Death Cafes before.
The feedback was encouraging - one comment being "it feels so freeing each time to talk about death"
The venue, a room in the local library worked well.