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Practitioners question: Successful First Death Cafe in Bunbury WA
Posted by Death Cafe Bunbury Western Australia on Aug. 2, 2014, 7:11 p.m. 3 comments
Wanted to share with everyone out there that the first Death Cafe in the Bunbury region, that's in the Southwest of Western Australia, drew a group of six enthusiastic participants. This region has a small population so this number is quite significant. The most interesting thing I noted as ...
Practitioners question: Got Media?
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Aug. 2, 2014, 5:39 a.m. 3 comments
If you landed a Death Cafe interview and you are nervous about talking to the media, send me a message through this website and I can help you prepare.
Over the past two years I have done quite a few media interviews on Death Cafe: newspaper, magazine, radio, television. I ...
Press: Death Cafes and the Suffering of Patients with Cancer
Posted by Merilynne Rush on Aug. 1, 2014, 1:51 a.m. 1 comment
Daneil Hinshaw recently attended a Death Cafe I hosted, along with the Social Work Department, at a local hospital. He wrote an excellent blog post about it which I think is really worth the read, including the following discussion, to which Lizzy adds.
See more at: ASCO Connection
It depends, in part, on where you live and how much money you make.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/07/31/336369873/how-will-you-die
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Birmingham
Posted by carrieweekes on July 31, 2014, 10:40 a.m. 2 comments
It was probably the most beautiful, sunny and warm Sunday Birmingham has seen all year.
Would the prospect of spending a couple of hours talking about Death be enough to tempt our prospective attendees from their sun-baked gardens and Birmingham’s wonderful parks and into a City Centre pub? We wouldn’t have blamed them for finding excuses…
But they came! 25 wonderful and interesting strangers came with a desire to talk about Death. This was our first publicly advertised Death Café in Birmingham. And thanks to a wonderful venue who put us up free-of-charge (thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk), some lovely cake pops courtesy of Conjurerskitchen.com and some ...
New Blog post: 1,000th Death Cafe
Posted by Jon Underwood on July 30, 2014, 9:03 a.m. 4 comments
We recently passed the major milestone of 1,000 Death Cafes :)
It is amazing to know that all over the world people are discussing death thanks to this work.
Thanks so much to everyone attending, organising or supporting Death Cafe.
Press: "Lawrence Death Cafe provides safe environment for discussing all things mortal"
Posted by CW on July 29, 2014, 5:37 p.m.
Lawrence Death Cafe provides safe environment for discussing all things mortal
Death is inevitable. Talking about it isn't. The Lawrence Death Cafe hopes ...
See more at: Lawrence Journal World - newspaper & web site
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Madison
Posted by Willy Street: Madison Death Cafe on July 29, 2014, 12:14 p.m.
"I've always thought about death a lot", differences in families; some families don't talk about death or people in the family who have died, others often reminisce about family members who have died. Times have changed, everyone is busy and family members are spread out across the country, thus less time to come together to grieve. When people die at home, there is more time to accept and be together, now often, families are not with the person often when they die and everyone is so busy. Taking care of the property, funeral arrangements, etc) becomes another arrangement in the busy schedules.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Montreal
Posted by Kit Racette on July 28, 2014, 5:17 p.m.
On July 16, 25 people gathered together in Montreal for tea and coffee and cakes. Once more I was struck by how different each Death Cafe is. There is always the mixture of people who come because they have experienced the death of some one close. Then there are those who work in palliative care and I value their sharing of their accompanying the dying. And there are always those who are curious about their own death, some frightened and some wanting to face it in a conscious way. This time, once more, there was some one who shared their near death experience and we are all interested ...
I am looking for a new venue and considering asking the local funeral homes. Do funeral homes attract people to attend?
New Blog post: Australian Aboriginal Proverb
Posted by Pam Cuming on July 28, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
We are all visitors
to this time, this place.
We are just
passing through.
Our purpose
here is to observe,
to learn, to grow.
to love...and then
we return home.
New Blog post: On being a widow
Posted by Pam Cuming on July 27, 2014, 6:47 p.m.
Sometimes couples learn to dance so well together that when one of them dies, the other can scarcely navigate the dance floor. To lose the love of one’s life is to feel like a part of us has been amputated. There is a vacancy, an emptiness that can never be filled. No matter how wondrous the people we meet in the future, the amputated limb can never be replaced or regrown.
The word “widow ...
Press: Sugar Skulls: Have your cake and discuss mortality, too, at Arlington Memorial Gardens’ monthly Deat
Posted by pete on July 27, 2014, 12:10 p.m.
See more at: Cincinnati City Beat
Practitioners question: Authentic Death Cafes
Posted by Jon Underwood on July 26, 2014, 9:55 p.m. 3 comments
Hi everyone,
This is a post I have put off writing for some time.
Sadly there are people who are using the name Death Cafe without permission, and in certain cases with motives that I am personally not comfortable with.
Please note:
- Only Death Cafes listed on this site it ...