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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 ...
New Blog post: Death wellies and tea!
Posted by Grief Wellies on April 30, 2020, 6:58 p.m.
https://keeleyhouseblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/death-wellies-tea/“Grief has no rules, sometimes you’ve got to just put on your welly’s and stomp through the mud, day by day”
Since setting up Grief wellies 7 years ago I have been dabbling with the idea of running a “Death Cafe” but it never seemed the right time. I think mainly because it’s taken me this long to really process my own response to ...
Death Cafe write up: Virtual Death Cafe Christchurch, New Zealand
Posted by SHoffman on April 29, 2020, 5:49 a.m.
Suddenly our world had changed. Our ideas of how we would like to have our life end or Birthing into Spirit is also changing! It has become a time when thousands are dying alone. We must find away to transition without the ones we love near us. Looking for people to give their ideas on how to do this thanks !!! Sally H. USA
Death Cafe write up: April Death Cafe Online
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on April 28, 2020, 8:14 a.m.
For our April Death Café Iowa we took the plunge and went virtual with a Zoom meeting! Buffy Peters from the Bereavement Professionals Group facilitated the group. In total there were 5 people in attendance, 1 man and 4 women, and participants ranged in ages and professions. One exciting addition was a member from California that was a Death Doula! Several interesting topics were brought forward for discussion.
Topics included:
Death doulas
Obituaries and what we would or would not want to include in ours. One member commented “how do you fit a big life into a little obit?” Another member shared that she wrote two for her ...
Resource: Oxidation of Grief: Reflections on Adult Sibling Loss
Posted by mariap on April 27, 2020, 8:52 a.m. 2 comments
One of few books focused specifically on adult sibling loss, The Oxidation of Grief is a compilation of personal essays written as the author mourned the death of her younger sister. The second half of the book includes the stories of 13 others whose siblings died before their time. Many ...
New Blog post: the heart of all action
Posted by ASP on April 24, 2020, 8:42 a.m.
is death.
been dead, been around it awhile.
death- not a blog post
but the most awkward embarassing personal thing to happen to me.
sometimes people dying just want to be alone to die. not when family's around.
when people left her room for a minute andrea decided to give it up.
mom kept requesting to be left alone as we led her down hallways to do laundry.
in the end laundry became a ...
New Blog post: She knew She Was Dying
Posted by flyfree on April 23, 2020, 8:17 a.m.
Hi, Some years back now my mom died in her cottage attached to our house separated by an indoor patio. It was early morning before sun up and I was still half asleep. My husband who always got up early was watching tv and he could see the door to her cottage from where he sat, the top of the door was glass and he would have heard any noise that came from her room ...