Latest Death Cafe News
New Blog post: It's All Good
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on June 7, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
This trip has not been without its challenges. The flights were super long and just as we would fall asleep, the flight attendants would come on intercom and make a series of announcements in three languages. When we got to Hong Kong, Megan's luggage was there. For me there was a sign taped to a bin telling me to find a baggage person. My luggage was not going to in Hong Kong for another ...
New Blog post: Fear of the Number 4
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on June 7, 2014, 10:27 a.m. 2 comments
Tretraphobia, or fear of the number 4, is very real in Hong Kong. The elevators are missing the 4th and 13th floors. The superstition against the number 4 is due to its Cantonese similarity to the word for death. Here is an article about a current local controvery with the number 13. Note at the bottom of the article, they were succesful with banning the number 4.
http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/4559297-emotional-plea-for-13-richmond-hill-address-change-delayed/
Incidentally, our ...
New Blog post: Joss paper
Posted by Death Cafe St. Joe/ Megan Mooney on June 7, 2014, 9:54 a.m.
Today we visited a store in Hong Kong that sold Joss paper (also known as ghost money) and other contemporary/westernized varieties of Joss paper that included paper currency, gambling coins, as well as paper clothes, houses, cars, toiletries, electronics and etc. Joss paper are sheets of paper and/or paper-crafts made into burnt offerings which are common in various Asian religious practices including theveneration of the deceased on holidays and special occasions ...
New Blog post: Talking about Death Cafe and Death during my travel to Hong Kong.
Posted by Death Cafe St. Joe/ Megan Mooney on June 7, 2014, 9:35 a.m. 3 comments
I pulled up to KCI (the airport at Kansas City) to begin my travels and as soon as I arrived, the guy taking my luggage asked me about my Death Café t-shirt. I told him all about Death Café. I then went into the airport and began talking to numerous other people about Death Café, and death and dying. Many of them were so grateful to hear about this movement. As I continued my travels ...
New Blog post: poem origin
Posted by tahed on June 6, 2014, 12:26 p.m.
Could anybody cast some light over the poem below as far as the author and why it was written?.
I heard that a Jewish lady settled in Canada after the second world war and confided her sadness to a lady friend of not being able to grieve for her mother who died during the Holocaust as she didn`t have a grave. This Canadian friend of hers wrote this poem then conveying the message that ...
New Blog post: Megan and Lizzy meet for the first time
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on June 5, 2014, 7 a.m. 5 comments
Megan flew in to Columbus today in preparation for our trip to Hong Kong. For dinner I took her to the Panera where the first Death Cafe in the United States was held.
Death Cafe write up: mid-coast Maine Death Cafe in Hope!
Posted by plindquist on June 5, 2014, 6:48 a.m. 1 comment
An evening in Hope, Maine... I helped organize the first Death Cafe near the town of Camden, where I live. The following write-up came to me a few days later from a particpant and lovely lady in the audience. I think she got the idea behind the group event!
Tolerant treatment of touchy topic
Death Café has an ominous ring to it. Still, I went, and met up with over twenty others who attended the event in one of our neighboring towns.
The group included a wide range of ages, both men and women. Everyone at one point or another smiled, got teary, laughed out loud, reflected, shared ...
New Blog post: Survival is the only choice after a child dies
Posted by torsum on June 5, 2014, 4:07 a.m. 1 comment
When Sophie said her private good byes to her brother behind the ICU curtain she took this amazing photo. She never told us and then suddenly it appeared on her facebook page with these words:
"Will I can't describe how much I'm going to miss you. Through everything that has happened to our family, we have always had each other's backs, and you have helped me with so much. I never thought ...
Death Cafe write up: Mid Sussex Death Cafe
Posted by Joanna on June 5, 2014, 3:25 a.m. 1 comment
On the 4th June we had an interesting meeting attended by a paranormal investigator, a medium and a couple of people who have died several times, during operations or hospital treatment. We heard several ghost stories and discussed what this meant to each of us. The meeting was also attended by a couple of Christians and so inevitably the discussion was very lively!
New Blog post: Houses and flowers.....
Posted by torsum on June 4, 2014, 9:59 a.m.
Death Cafe write up: Highcliffe Death Cafe
Posted by Lis Horwich on June 4, 2014, 9:29 a.m. 1 comment
New for June in Dorset:
New Death Cafe this time in East Dorset. Come along - eat cake and talk about death.
Which better month than June when the days are longest and the sun is shining to start talking about your thoughts about death and dying?
Dorset has now it's second Death Group, this time in East Dorset, come along eat cake and talk about death.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Birmingham UK
Posted by carrieweekes on June 4, 2014, 5:41 a.m.
We held our first Death Cafe in Birmingham in February.
Kindly hosted by Blue Ginger restaurant in Kings Heath, there were 12 of us. A little nervous- our first time. But it was fantastic. I am going to hand this write up over to our fabulous participants and their comments.
We will definitely be doing this again. Thanks to everyone who came, get in touch to find out about our next event, Carrie.
“Once conversation got going there was a definite flow of ideas that came naturally and ended on a couple of accasions with a group pause and a moment of reflection over what had just been ...