Latest Death Cafe News
Practitioners question: Restarting a Death Cafe
Posted by Anna Simpson on June 30, 2021, 1:38 p.m. 1 comment
Hi there,
I've recently begun preparations to start a monthly Death Cafe in my area. However, it's my understanding that a few years ago someone has already started a Death Cafe. It's been several years since the last cafe was held and the Facebook page seems to ...
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe ~ by the bay Brisbane
Posted by Jacqui on June 26, 2021, 12:20 a.m.
13 May 2021 - Small group of 5 interesting women spanning a variety of ages, backgrounds and life experiences. We shared our experiences about
- that the experience of dying can be “a beautiful thing”; and the value of ‘holding space’; ‘being present’ and also sharing laughter along the way . All this as long as it is ‘legal, safe, sane and consensual)
- a discussion around unexpected deaths – and a myriad of emotions attached with this ranging from quality of life – if we could choose to die suddenly then wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing? To the impact of unexpected deaths on the living – how we interpret sudden deaths (positive ...
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe Iowa CDT June
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on June 25, 2021, 10 a.m.
For our June Death Café Iowa we met via Zoom. Buffy Peters from the Bereavement Professionals Group facilitated the group. There were three individuals who attended the Death Café this month which made for a small and intimate group.
The topic of how the pandemic influenced death and grieving was talked about significantly within the group. Between sub-topics of interrupted rituals, impact on children, “shadow loss” for the whole world, and even focusing our attention on what is important. Postponed grief also worked into the mix and the group mentioned how important rituals are in grief.
The medicalization of death and dying was brought up by a participant ...
Death Cafe write up: June Death Cafe via ZOOM EDT
Posted by BLLLINK on June 24, 2021, 2:53 a.m.
At this Covid-influenced ZOOM Death Cafe, 15 people from around the country dropped by to experience one of our more conversational monthly virtual Death Cafes.
The participants explored, questioned, shared and sometimes laughed as they easily and warmly welcomed meeting one another openly.
There was genuine acceptance of the sentiments voiced.
While we discussed the possibility of returning to the "face-to-face, sit around the tables" Death Cafe of pre-COVID times, most agreed the ZOOM format is a comfortable one and one that introduces people from a wider geographic area (past ZOOM Death Cafes have seen visitors from Canada, Australia and Europe, as well as other states).
It's ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Tunbridge Wells Online BST
Posted by carmeldunmall on June 4, 2021, 5:14 a.m.
8 of us met on zoom from USA, Canda and the Uk.
The discussion was around grief, the openness of the group was touching and the conversation deep.
Death Cafe write up: June Uptown Online Death Cafe CDT
Posted by Death Cafe Uptown on June 3, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe Iowa CDT May
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on June 2, 2021, 9:56 a.m.
For our May Death Café Iowa we met via Zoom. Buffy Peters from the Bereavement Professionals Group facilitated the group. There were three individuals who attended the Death Café this month which made for a small and intimate group.
The topic of one’s awareness around death was brought up. Pre-planning and the act of smart funeral planning is important for family members. Death Doolas can be part of the pre-planning for death. Some individuals do not want family members to be around them if they are sick and dying, which is where a Death Doula would step in and be that support system for the individual.
The ...
Link: Virtual Grieving Tree for honoring the precious lives lost from COVIC-19
Posted by Heesun Kim on May 24, 2021, 9:16 p.m.
A virtual grieving space is offered from June 6th to June 13th, 2021, remotely broadcasting around the Grieiving Tree from the Lamvert campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute, CA.
Due to the tragic nature of the pandemic, most families could not bid farewell to their loved ones fully. As a collective ...
New Blog post: To facilitate or to join in?
Posted by Martin Poole on May 23, 2021, 8:26 a.m. 2 comments
I've run a few Death Cafe events over the past couple of years both in person before the pandemic and online afterwards.
This blog post isn't so much a post imparting wisdom but a question to others running Death Cafe events on their experience with being the facilitator.
Depending on numbers of attendees and how I've personally felt at the time, I've sometimes joined in as a participant in the conversations ...
Death Cafe write up: North East London Online Death Cafe BST hosted by Debbie Young & Alberta Gutteridge
Posted by Creating Conversations CIC on May 21, 2021, 8:12 a.m.
Swedish death cleaning. Just one of the topics that came out of my first virtual Death Café. Well never mind the virtual, my first Death
Café. It was planned to be a North East London gathering hosted by myself and Debbie, who is Death Café-experienced, but ended up
being a gloriously global affair with participants from yes, north-east London, but also Scotland, Ireland and Canada. Back to the death
cleaning or death decluttering. The idea behind it is to release the burden of your things from the loved ones you leave behind. ‘It’s a
loving thing to do for the people you care about.’ There was ...
Practitioners question: North East London Death Cafe hosted by Debbie Young & Alberta Gutteridge
Posted by Creating Conversations CIC on May 21, 2021, 8:08 a.m.
Swedish death cleaning. Just one of the topics that came out of my first virtual Death Café. Well never mind the virtual, my first Death Café. It was planned to be a North East London gathering hosted by myself and Debbie, who is Death Café-experienced, but ended up being ...
New Blog post: 6 signs of the dead souls
Posted by elmaya on May 17, 2021, 5:23 a.m.
When a loved one dies, the relatives are grieved. And sometimes the bereaved wonder if there is life after death. Is this soul well and where is it now? The bereaved are only too happy to wish for a sign from the afterlife. A token of the deceased person and their soul! But how can you recognize the signs of the dead soul? What is it worth paying attention to?
The first days after death ...
New Blog post: Seshendra Sharma : Story Of Life : 1927 - 2007
Posted by Saatyaki S/o Seshendra Sharma on May 17, 2021, 2:33 a.m.
Visionary Poet of the Millennium
An Indian poet Prophet
Seshendra Sharma
October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007
http://seshendrasharma.weebly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GunturuSeshendraSharma/
eBooks :http://kinige.com/author/Gunturu+Seshendra+Sharma
Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream ...
Resource: Death Perception Podcast
Posted by Casper Funeral and Cremation Services on May 12, 2021, 1:17 p.m.
Self-help host Joe Casper shares insights on living life, death, and everything in-between. Joe has a unique vantage point as a funeral director and offers helpful insights to those who are experiencing loss or planning for end of life.
ince September 2011, small groups of people across the world have gathered over tea and cake to discuss mortality. I went to one in Boulder to learn how COVID-19 and the King Soopers shooting are impacting those conversations....
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