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Death Cafe write up: May Iowa Virtual Death Cafe
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on May 26, 2020, 9:18 a.m.
For our May Death Café Iowa we met on Zoom. Buffy Peters and Becca Suvalsky from the Bereavement Professionals Group facilitated the group. In total there were 14 people in attendance, 2 men and 12 women, and participants ranged in ages and professions. Several members had to jump off before we were able to take the picture. We had individuals join from California, Florida, Iowa, and Colorado. It has been really fun to meet different people from across the county that also want to talk about death. Several interesting topics were brought forward for discussion.
Topics included:
Alternative funerals: Several members shared examples of alternative funerals and how ...
Death Cafe write up: May meeting of Colliers Wood Death Cafe - ONLINE
Posted by Cecilia H on May 24, 2020, 10:10 a.m.
There were 15 of us on the Zoom call for our third virtual meeting of the Colliers Wood Death Café. We dialled in from across the globe, with participants both sides of the Atlantic and the Arabian Peninsula!
We were joined by two hosts of Death Café meetings which take place in Bristol and Bournemouth:
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It was wonderful to welcome those attending their first ever Death Café and reconnect with several who have attended physical meetings of CWDC at Coffee in the Wood.
We began by acknowledging the extraordinary circumstances in which we came together, and took a ...
Death Cafe write up: Grief wellies Death Cafe Bedfordshire Online
Posted by Grief Wellies on May 22, 2020, 3:41 a.m.
This was our first one on line - using zoom. I was a bit nervous as to how it woudl go but it worked reallly well.
We had 7 of us including 2 new members of our group - 1 all the way from Saudi !!
Great to share
We are holding them every fortnight moving forward
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Hillsborough (via Zoom for current email list participants)
Posted by Neidra on May 21, 2020, 7:33 p.m.
Hello everyone, I hope you are staying well, physically and mentally. Thank you to those who joined the conversations during the May 13th Death Café – Hillsborough (DC-H) – our second Zoom call! We packed it with information and learned new things! Using Zoom has changed our dynamic yet it also allowed several new people to join us, including from Greensboro, Raleigh, and New York City! We are grateful for UMC allowing us to use their Zoom account (versus their “little house” where we normally meet in person). If you have not yet sent a few dollars to say thanks for last week, here is their website: uniongroveumc.org and ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Liverpool Online
Posted by Jamie on May 21, 2020, 3:41 p.m.
Online Death Cafe
Evaluation Summary
Evaluations: 8 submitted
Attendees: 1 facilitator, 12 attendees
The weeks seem to be flying by, and here we are nearly at our next Online Death Cafe.
Our fourth Death Cafe was hosted on Zoom and our first online. It was facilitated again by Jamie Fearn and assisted by Martin Poole who runs a Death Cafe on the Wirral and Kris D'Août who has been attending the Liverpool Death Cafes regularly (thank you both for your support). There was a drop in numbers compared to our last face to face event, but we still managed to split into small group, which made ...
Death Cafe write up: Florida Suncoast Death Cafe via Zoom EST
Posted by RisaM on May 16, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
This is an online event. Please send a message to request Zoom link to join the online meeting.
The object of our Death Cafe is to break the taboo we share about discussing the inevitable. We will focus on how Covid-19 has influenced and/or changed our hopes, wishes and fears of Death.
Death Cafe write up: Online Death Cafe Chorlton
Posted by Chorltondeathcafe on May 15, 2020, 12:47 p.m.
Tips for hosting a large Death Cafe on Zoom
- Everyone booked by email. I was wary of a person attending with whom others might feel unsafe, so when a new person I’d not met before emailed and wanted to book, I engaged them in an email conversation a little first. Asked where they lived, if they’d been to a DC before, what their name was if it wasn’t obvious.
Once they’d chatted on email, then I sent them the link and extra info.
(One person emailed to book, then didn’t reply to my ‘chat’ and disappeared. They hadn’t told me their name ...
Practitioners question: Large Zoom Death Cafe: Practical Tips
Posted by Chorltondeathcafe on May 15, 2020, 12:46 p.m. 2 comments
Tips for hosting a large Death Cafe on Zoom with breakout rooms
- Everyone booked by email. I was wary of a person attending with whom others might feel unsafe, so when a new person I’d not met before emailed and wanted to book, I engaged them in an email ...
Death Cafe write up: Tucson Friendly & Fearless Death Cafe
Posted by TucsonFFDeathCafe on May 14, 2020, 8:50 p.m.
We’ve now had 7 Tucson Friendly and Fearless Death Cafés meeting virtually via zoom. I’ve hosted our local café for years and wasn’t sure how the virtual experience would be. We have all been excited by the “global Café front door” and have been joined by people from both coasts, areas outside Tucson in Arizona, and even London! It could be that the pandemic brings death closer to the bone for all of us, death looming larger than ever in our personal and planetary experience, but I’m finding our Café conversations arrestingly tender, filled with deep questioning, soul searching, and beautiful intimate sharing ...
New Blog post: #1 of 3 All the stars are in the sky
Posted by msvictoriafirth@hotmail.com on May 14, 2020, 3:58 a.m. 1 comment
This spring I cared for my mum in the last days of her illness. I wrote several times during that period as a way to comfort myself. Here is the first of three blogs taken from some of that material.
ALL THE STARS ARE IN THE SKY
I have only seen one person die.
Been with them at that moment – or series of moments.
It was the father of a previous girlfriend. He was called ...
Death Cafe write up: Harrogate and District Virtual Death Cafe
Posted by CateQ on May 7, 2020, 11:09 a.m.
Introduction
This particular Death Café was held during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
It was held using Google Meet to overcome the social distancing issues associated with a physical gathering. Nonetheless, we came prepared with a cuppa and the occasional nibble.
Key issues discussed:
· People are feeling a greater sense of their own mortality at present
· One funeral director is offering monthly peer bereavement support groups, which are open to all, regardless of whether they have used the company’s services.
· There has been a significant increase in the number of deaths in the Leeds area’s Jewish community, rising from 2-3 per week to 2-3 per day. Funerals ...
Press: A conversation about death over tea and cake
Posted by Nick Wilde on May 4, 2020, 8:17 a.m. 2 comments
Kristeligt Dagblad, (Christian Daily), Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Section 1 Page 4
Coronavirus has made the so-called death cafes popular, though they must now be done online.
People around the world are grieving these days, either because they have lost family members or friends, or because so many others have ...
Practitioners question: Practitioner area open to search engines
Posted by ElyDeathCafe on May 4, 2020, 5:16 a.m.
I thought this was a "closed" area, but discovered that anything posted on the practitioner page shows up on google searches. I learned this when searching for something Death Cafe related without being logged in. You have to be logged in to post, that's all. Just wanting people to ...
I found a really useful thread after typing in "Death Cafe and suicide conversations". It was good to have Jon's comments & others' views. In my 3 years of hosting I haven't come across this (other than people attending whose relatives or friends had committed suicide).
Yesterday we had ...