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New Blog post: Connecting through conversing: How Death Cafe's facilitate the normality of death and dying.
Posted by Death Cafe - Fremantle on Nov. 8, 2014, 1:13 a.m.
The title of this blog post is also the title I used for my presentation at the 2014 Palliative Care WA Conference, held on October 31st.
I was given 20 minutes to present on what could have taken me a lifetime to present about! But present I did.
It was my first conference presentation but not my first public speaking engagement about the Death Cafe.
I have been running my Death Cafe monthly here in ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Marrickville
Posted by mknight on Nov. 7, 2014, 4:45 a.m.
Death Café Marrickville has come and gone again, yet echoes of the conversation that took place still resound in my mind.
Hosted by Lazy Bones Lounge, old and new faces met and exchanged thoughts, feelings and attitudes about all things death.
My impression of the afternoon was that it was almost a relief to be able to talk about death and to explore not only our feelings but the reactions of others toward our perceptions of death and our ease at its inevitability.
As previously, discussion was free-flowing, agenda-free and non-structured and although the group was smaller in number this time, conversation ripped along at a furious pace ...
Video: My Mother Was - a short documentary
Posted by Kate Macdonald on Nov. 6, 2014, 11:22 p.m. 3 comments
Death Cafe write up: Flagstaff September Death Cafe
Posted by aleia@furthershore.org on Nov. 5, 2014, 6:20 p.m.
This Cafe was attended by 33 participants ages 19 to 84, men and women. We are again joined today by several young students of sociology, sustainable communities, counseling and other schools within the local Northern Arizona University. Patrons thoroughly enjoyed gf ‘blondie’s’, apple slices with caramel dipping sauce and organic cheese and crackers. Round table discussion groups of 8 to 10 each discussed various topics including:
End of life medical interventions ~ why not write it down NOW instead of when you cannot speak?
Doctors don’t always honor a DNR! This is upsetting and the politics around it are confounding.
Grieving is okay, it is good to ...
Death Cafe write up: Denver Death Cafe-October
Posted by Anita Larson on Nov. 4, 2014, 11:53 a.m.
Denver Death Café Summary
October 26, 2014
Thank you to First Universalist Church for hosting the October Denver Death Cafe and providing refreshments. Thank you to Ardis, Rod & Ilene for setting everything up and that funny cake!
Anita Larson, Celebrant & Facilitator opened the meeting by talking about the “Before I Die” project and the positive responses it is getting globally. Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood with chalkboard paint and stenciled it with a grid of the sentence “Before I die I want to ____”. Anyone walking by could pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on their lives and share their ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Zürich
Posted by DeathCafeZurich on Nov. 4, 2014, 10:17 a.m.
„Über den Tod reden bringt dich nicht um, sondern weiter.“ Unter diesem Motto trafen sich am 2. November 2014 über 20 interessierte Menschen und ein Hund zum ersten Death Café Zürich. Das Cabaret Voltaire bewährte sich als stimmungsvoller Veranstaltungsort. Die Gäste versorgten sich an der Bar mit Verpflegung und platzierten sich an den Bistrotischen. Nach ein paar einführenden Worten, in denen auch die Pioniere der Death Café Bewegung erwähnt wurden, waren die Anwesenden auf sich gestellt.
In Gruppen von zwei bis acht Personen tauschten sich die Teilnehmenden angeregt aus. Über die intuitive Einstiegsfrage „Was hat dich hierher geführt?“ war das Eis gleich ...
Gracie Lofthouse was one of the journalists who came to our Death Cafe Hampstead in May this year. This article looks at many aspects and attitudes to dying, death, funerals, and people involves in the alternative scene to bring about change, including Death Cafe.
Breaking the mold that has gone ...
See more at: Libertine
Press: Lets talk about death with a coffee
Posted by Death Café A Coruña on Nov. 2, 2014, 11:09 p.m.
Whrite by Javier Becerra
See more at: La Voz de Galicia
New Blog post: Death Awareness
Posted by Abrasax on Oct. 31, 2014, 11 p.m. 1 comment
Mindfulness means Awareness.
Being Conscious of Reality.
Death is Reality, yet remains an Unknown.
Naturally there is fear of the Unknown.
Understanding your thoughts, feelings, and experiences of Death is to Know yourself.
To be Conscious of the
Inevitability of Death, is to accept reality as it is.
Embracing Death as an aspect of Life is to Live Life more Fully.
By exploring Death, we can Know how we want to Live Now
Hello everyone! Im hoping the death cafe comuity can help me out with some reasearch I am conducting regarding Mortality and Commitment. I am an Undergraduate Student at Colorado State University in their Psychology department. The purpose of this research is to gain better insight as to how mortality affects ...
Death Cafe write up: Northern Alberta Death Cafe
Posted by Northern Alberta Death Cafe on Oct. 28, 2014, 9:58 p.m. 1 comment
one full year of holding the Northern Alberta Death Cafe.... Some very small groups and some larger, they all seem to fit and the conversations are always interesting and some even thought provoking.....
With the new political push for dying with dignity there are some ethical questions around all of the choices one can or hopes to be able to make on their own.
Blessings to all you followers....
Death Cafe write up: Flagstaff August Death Cafe
Posted by aleia@furthershore.org on Oct. 28, 2014, 4:17 p.m. 1 comment
We are joined today by several young students of psychology from the local Northern Arizona University. What an honor to have them be interested in talking about death! The lemon drizzle cake was also a big hit. . . Here are some comments from our August Death Cafe:
*The depth of kindness in this group is extraordinary
*I enjoy the "attitude of gratitude" I call this my "fear reduction group!"
*I love that I don't have to explain what i mean when I say I have a "Death Cafe buzz!"
*The conversations in our group just flow into one another. . . it brought the 'mystery' back to me.
*We spoke ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Taiwan
Posted by CelinJheng on Oct. 28, 2014, 1:37 p.m. 2 comments
We made it !!!!
The death cafe is successful.
New Blog post: Celebrating one year of Death Cafe Southbury
Posted by jfs chaplain on Oct. 27, 2014, 11:55 a.m.
A little over a year ago I read an article in the NY Times (front page, no less) about places where one could talk about death with like-minded seekers, all while imbibing tea and cake.
As a rabbi, I have often been frustrated when encountering families where a death has occurred and they seem totally surprised and clueless. They are unclear about what they, not to mention the deceased, believe about death, what they want ...