Latest Death Cafe News
Video: Death and the LGBT community part 2
Posted by Cheryl Espinosa Jones on May 5, 2015, 9:23 p.m.
New Blog post: Yay for Caitlin Doughty
Posted by Jon Underwood on May 5, 2015, 1:53 p.m.
Caitlin Doughty is undoubtedly great. To have achieved what Caitlin has around death and dying in the context of our extremely death-phobic world is incredible. Who knows what Caitlin will go on to do. It will be a treat to find out.
Please feel free to post comments of support for Caitlin or celebrations of her achievements.
We hold one meeting a month at 7pm on the last Thursday of each month in the Quaker Meeting House in Thirsk. We also have a meeting at 9:15 am in Cafe Nero on the first Tuesday. Our Death Cafe meetings started last November and our attendance is between ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe, Winchester, VA
Posted by Mary Jane Lee on May 4, 2015, 9:40 a.m.
It was another beautiful day in the Shenandoah Valley where nine people gathered at Steamy's Cafe to talk about life and death.
One participant reported on the Art of Dying conference held in NYC recently where more than a dozen fine minds gathered to talk about the art of dying.
Robert Thurman spoke of "the clear light of the void", he asks that we be conscious of our unconscious and that everything we do matters. Eben Alexander told us about his near death experience, and others spoke to the future of end of life care. The dialogue on living, dying, and death is rich, deep, and very ...
Nice article in our local newspaper.
See more at: Ayr Advertiser
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Corvallis
Posted by dorbolo on May 2, 2015, 11:27 a.m.
This was a wonderful conversation about many topics with "religion" being a recurring theme.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Fukuoka, Japan
Posted by Nagisa on May 2, 2015, 1:30 a.m.
It was the first Death Cafe in Fukuoka, Japan.
There were five of us including me (as a facilitator).
The participants have variety of backgrounds; Anthropologist, laboratory medical technologist, graduate school student, professor and Acupuncturist.
At first, I talked why I hold Death Cafe. Then we discussed how much money we need, when someone died; A cost for a death certificate and cremation etc. We also talked about what are important things before you die. For example, where we wants to die, what we want to eat before our death, physical conditions, medical care, alternative care, how to spend the rest of life, with whom, and QOL. Also ...
New Blog post: TO BE OR NOT TO BE RIGHTEOUS
Posted by Kevin Haselhorst on April 29, 2015, 10:19 a.m. 1 comment
With considerable angst, I cared for an elderly gentleman who had Multiple Myeloma, recurrent pneumonia and was not responding to treatment. He was also receiving dialysis and experiencing insufferable bone pain. He arrived by EMS gasping for breath and his blood pressure was low. It was clear he was not long for this world. In fact, he repeatedly stated, “I’m done.” Luckily, his adoring wife entered the room within minutes of his arrival for ...
Death Cafe write up: Blue Ridge Death Cafe
Posted by Blue Ridge Death Cafe on April 27, 2015, 7:59 p.m.
It was an unusually chilly day for April. Thirteen people met at the Old City Cemetery for the second meeting of the Blue Ridge Death Cafe. With coffee and cake people gathered at the tables to begin a robust conversation. Topics included letting go, talking with adult children about end-of-life care, experiences with death, and the importance of writing out wishes about care. The room was filled with the warmth of humor and conversation.
The Blue Ridge Death Cafe will meet again on June 14, 2015 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM at the Old City Cemetery. Please join the conversation.
Information about registration will be posted later ...
Death Cafe write up: Providence Death Cafe
Posted by Cassandra Tribe on April 27, 2015, 5:29 p.m.
The cupcakes match the new color of the room and we settled down to have a chat about all things death and dying. Gracing us as always our companion from death row with news of his 3 year reprieve, which led into a further discussion of learning to recognize our own reprieves that often happen in less dramatic ways. Much was said of the new found willingness of society to talk about death, and we discussed the peculiar grief that comes with fulfilling an advanced directive and the use of palliative sedation in the last moments. We then talked about the quality of the stars in the skies ...
Death Cafe write up: Invito a partecipare al Death Cafe, conversazione aperta sulla morte e sul morire
Posted by Elisabetta Lucchi on April 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
This was the 18th meeting of Verona Death cafe’!
There were four of us (including myself, Elisabetta) and this time we were all women. It was an intense evening with everyone thoroughly involved as usual.
What comes to mind when we think about death?
“I think about being in a coffin and the funeral service doesn’t console me. I think about the absence of the person, the person is not there anymore in the same form. And then the total absence of everything, I don’t know if there’s anything afterwards.”
“I think about cemeteries which are religious places with prayers and the rosary with the ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Marrickville
Posted by mknight on April 27, 2015, 4:17 a.m.
A write-up for Marrickville Death Cafe - April.
Our Death Café this month took place on Anzac Day. It was the 100th year celebration, and the ensuing week of media coverage and related conversation was rivaled by that of the attendees at Death Café Marrickville!
Discussion included news of Australia’s first body farm, the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research, which is to be located on a 48-hectare bush site in the lower Blue Mountains, an upcoming public lecture, Naming the Dead, featuring forensic scientists reporting on recent research, and the coming to Australia of the irrepressible Caitlin Doughty, mortician extraordinaire who will be speaking at a ...
Death Cafe write up: First Castlemaine Death Cafe
Posted by DeathCafeCastlemaine on April 25, 2015, 11:43 p.m.
Sixteen attended. After opening remarks on the Death Café concept, we broke into two groups. The topics discussed included:
- Current and past personal experiences with the death and dying of relatives and friends,
- Society’s avoidance of and the “medicalisation” of death and dying (and birth!),
- A local initiative for holistic funerals and disposal of the remains,
- Reflections from one attendee who is a funeral celebrant,
- Hopes of “euphoric” and “aesthetic” deaths,
- “Conscious Ageing”,
- The concept of wakes before you die and leaving possessions,
- Humorous stories about life experiences,
- Reflections from one attendee who heads the regional palliative care services,
- End of life planning,
- Remembering and grieving.
We ...
Press: A cup of tea, a piece of cake and conversation to die for - all you need to know about Bedford’s DC
Posted by nickwilde@ntlworld.com on April 21, 2015, 2:40 p.m. 1 comment
This article got 18 people to the Death Cafe Bedford, many of whom had not been before.
See more at: Bedfordshire on Sunday
Press: Death Cafe is Coming to Pasadena
Posted by Rev Maggie Burbank Yenoki on April 21, 2015, 1:21 p.m.
See more at: coloradoboulevard.net