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Press: Fancy discussing your demise over tea and cake? The rise of the ‘death cafe’
Posted by Brigid Haines on Feb. 13, 2022, 1:08 p.m.
Interview with organisers of Online Death Café Cymru, Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby and Brigid Haines. We liked the article but were concerned that it didn't credit deathcafe.com or mention that Sarah is a trainee death doula and Brigid is a namings and funeral celebrant accredited with Humanists UK.
See more at: Positive.news
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe Cymru BST
Posted by Sarah Hillcoat on Feb. 13, 2022, 11:12 a.m.
This was our sixth Online Death Café Cymru and we were pleased to welcome both new and returning guests.
Both the role of the unpaid carer and grieving under the pandemic featured heavily in the conversation this time.
Among other things, we touched on: Covid lockdown and its impact on funerals, isolation, delayed grief and the role of community in mourning; grief as a manifestation of love; childhood, children, death and funerals; the comfort of ritual and recognising the circle of life; assisted dying; the need for death education; hope for change in our attitudes towards dying and death in the UK through the recent Lancet report The ...
Death Cafe write up: Tucson Online MST Friendly & Fearless Death Cafe
Posted by TucsonFFDeathCafe on Feb. 13, 2022, 10:03 a.m.
Your heart shatters into a million pieces before you can even exhale. A beautiful stranger has just told you she has an especially aggressive disease and may be nearing her last options. She looks barely twenty. She adds, “I have four young children.”
Your best friend tells you her husband has a rare debilitating condition. Walking is now difficult. It’s genetic. Their adult children, some starting families, haven’t been told.
The house at the end of your street is oddly still. The family you’ve known for years vanished. Covid.
A new acquaintance shares she has a plan to avoid a sad, slow end, a potential ...
Hi there
Would it be possible for cafe write ups to be automatically linked from the related event listing please?
I know there's a link to the listing from the write up, but a link the other way would be really helpful too, particularly for people browsing past events ...
A beautifully written account of the author's initial experience at a Death Cafe.
See more at: Prescott Daily Courier
Death Cafe write up: Belper Death Cafe
Posted by katedamiral on Jan. 30, 2022, 8:53 a.m.
Twelve people attended this cafe and we managed to have a good conversation as one group even wearing masks.
Themes explored included: the urge to tidy up your life before you die, reluctance to face the inevitability of death - and how to recognise when you are ready, the role of professionals both before and after a death and the important role they should play in supporting loved ones who want to be involved, different cultural attitudes towards grieving and the value of a good cry.
People also shared a range of recommended reads including:
- the novel All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Rituals ...
New Blog post: Will We Be Bored In Heaven?
Posted by michaelburke on Jan. 28, 2022, 10:50 p.m.
by Michael Burke
from: lifedeathanddying.com
Most of us hope that after we die we go to some sort of after-life. It might be Heaven, or paradise or some spiritual realm where there is nothing but love and peace. Whatever it is we imagine it’s way better then life here on earth. We don’t have to go to work, pay bills, watch what we eat or worry about getting sick. Everything will be ...
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe CST. CLOSED to new sign-ups. Full.
Posted by elms on Jan. 24, 2022, 11:04 a.m.
What questions do you have about death and dying? What fears? Here’s your chance to air it all out!
Death Cafés are a part of a global movement to provide a relaxed and nurturing setting where you can join open, honest, agenda-free discussions to explore the questions you may have about life, dying, and grief. The objective of a death cafe is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. This is not a therapy or a grief group. For more information, visit deathcafe.com. Hosted by the UUFF Care Team, and facilitated by Renée ...
Death Cafe write up: Tucson Online MST Friendly & Fearless Death Cafe
Posted by TucsonFFDeathCafe on Jan. 23, 2022, 11:50 a.m.
Death customs across the globe vary but also share many elements. The story of a father’s send off in Thailand was shared at Cafe this week. On the third day of community ritual a pickup truck carried the casket and a large photo of the deceased and paraded slowly through the town on the way to the crematorium. All the villagers came out to line the streets, including mother’s with babes in arms, whether familiar with the person or not, to do the very important life ritual of seeing off the dead. Some of us thought this was a lovely idea and would wish the same ...
Death Cafe write up: January Online Death Cafe Iowa CST
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on Jan. 20, 2022, 2:35 p.m.
For our January Death Café Iowa, we met via Zoom. Buffy Peters from the Bereavement Professionals Group and Jennifer Leatherby from the Iowa Death Collective facilitated the group. We had a group of seven individuals. Most were joining from Iowa, but we also had individuals join us from the West and East coasts.
We began our group by talking about tragedy and the responses to tragedy by individuals and the community. Depending on the tragedy that occurred, we talked about how it’s easy to want to blame the incident on something, but why? The person that died in the incident is a person loved by someone, so ...
Death Cafe write up: December Online Death Cafe CST
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on Jan. 18, 2022, 10:59 a.m.
For our December Death Café Iowa, we met via Zoom. Buffy Peters from the Bereavement Professionals Group facilitated the group. We had a group of eight individuals for December’s Death Café. There were individual’s from out-of-state and in-state joining in on our conversation.
This month’s discussion centered around the holidays and how death and grief affects the holiday experience. Some individual’s talked about creating new traditions to honor their loved one(s) throughout the holidays. One individual shared that her family had tried to create a new tradition the previous year, but it didn’t serve its purpose, so she had to try something ...
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe Cymru BST
Posted by Sarah Hillcoat on Jan. 17, 2022, 8:07 a.m.
This was our fifth Online Death Café Cymru and, as before, we were pleased to welcome some old and some new faces.
The conversation was wide-ranging this time round. They touched on several topics, with a particular emphasis on the material aspects of end of life and dying. They included: 1) finding the right words to comfort the bereaved; 2) options for what should happen to our bodies when we die; 3) creativity, in particular the role of storytelling in dementia care; 4) photographs as a link between generations; 5) possessions as clutter or treasure, and as a manifestation of our legacies; 6) putting our affairs in order ...
Link: We all need to have humor when facing Stage 4 cancer
Posted by janisx on Jan. 16, 2022, 4:39 p.m.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Tunbridge Wells Online GMT
Posted by carmeldunmall on Jan. 10, 2022, 2:27 a.m.
7 of us discussed many aspects of death, dying and bereavement. There was an openess within the group to go where the discussion led.
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe Iowa CST November
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on Jan. 5, 2022, 1:05 p.m.
There were four individuals who attended our Death Café in November. The group talked about a variety of topics, the first being do not resuscitate (DNR) orders. Individuals talked about the different types of DNRs in Iowa and the forms to fill out to have your DNR request honored. Iowalegalaid.org was mentioned as a good resource for DNR forms.
One individual mentioned that they had been to a dying expo and shared their experience at that event. Medical assistance in dying in relation to the Iowa legislation was discussed, and it was mentioned that the Hospice association has been lobbying against medically assisted death. Palliative care was ...