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Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Iowa
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on June 19, 2019, 1:19 p.m.
For June’s Death Café Iowa we met at Palmers Deli & Market on Ingersoll. Becca Suvalsky (member of the Bereavement Professionals Group) facilitated the group. We had 8 people in attendance, 2 men and 6 women, and participants ranged in ages and professions.
Members brought several interesting topics to the group this month.
Several group members brought things to discuss such as an article that was published a number of years ago form the “End Well” conference in San Francisco. The article discussed using natural relaxants such cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms for those suffering. These drugs have been linked to dramatically helping those who are at the end ...
Death Cafe write up: South-East Brisbane Death Cafe
Posted by Jacqui on June 18, 2019, 7:20 a.m. 1 comment
13 June 2019 Ten wonderfully diverse people met up on 13th June on a crisp cool Brisbane evening night... a mixture of ages, genders, interests and life experiences - which blended so well and left people enthused to continue talking about how death and dying are part of life; and how it has affected their lives. How we all need to talk about it. Plan proactively for it. And learn from it.
As always the topics were wide ranging and included discussions about unexpected and expected deaths and their profound impact upon our lives. Death when young... death when older. The impact of grief and loss not only for ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe - Visalia
Posted by l_burkart@yahoo.com on June 16, 2019, 8:37 p.m.
This was a beautiful Hygge group with us two veteran cafers, and two other women who find themselves alone after the death of their spouses one by cancer and the other by cardiac arrest.
Our newcomer had been holding onto our newspaper article in her purse anticipating the event.
Sharing our experiences with the death stories of our loved ones was beautifully shared in this small group with everyone being heard and appreciated.
One of the take aways from this group is we will talk about our loss for as long as we need to with no judgement or guilt.
Our next meeting will be held July 13th ...
"Day after day we remember the days that have gone on before, even though there is the interval of sleep. Finally there comes a time when, if we consider what is to our true liking, we will want to forget everything that went before. Then we can have the extraordinary ...
New Blog post: "What is it like to die" By Alan Watts - Part 1
Posted by Shaheda on June 13, 2019, 9:02 a.m. 1 comment
(PART 1)
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of death as far back as I can remember, from earliest childhood. You may think that’s kind of morbid, but when a child at night says the phrase If I should die before I wake, there’s something about it that’s absolutely weird. What would it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? Most reasonable people just dismiss the thought ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Zarautz
Posted by amaiartze on June 10, 2019, 11:33 a.m.
We met 13 people, 9 women and 4 men. It was the first time for some of them, others repeated the experience. All of them came ready to hear and share their experiences about death.
A man shared with the attendees a near death experience he lived 12 years ago. Nevertheless most of the stories are related with mourning experiences. They invite us to live the present moment with more consciousness and to take an active role in our lives, instead a victim.
They spoke about the importance of not to judge and the necessity of changing the social criticism because it increases the suffering.
They said than ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Nelson
Posted by BarbaraGreene on June 7, 2019, 4:11 p.m.
The conversation that came up at this Death Cafe was invigorating. It was just a small group this time but the experience of being in it was so enriching.
New Blog post: Krishnamurti to Himself - 1984
Posted by David Lynch on June 6, 2019, 11:41 a.m. 2 comments
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Zumaian
Posted by PAUSA on June 6, 2019, 3:44 a.m.
Ha sido una experiencia maravillosa, nos hemos juntado 14 personas al rededor de una mesa, y con muchas ganas de tener un espacio para hablar de la muerte.
Han sido dos horas que se nos han hecho cortas, hemos hablado de la propia muerte y de las cosas que cada uno valora ante esto: despederse de la familia, no sufrir, ser dueño de la propia muerte, poder decir adiós, poder morir en paz con la vida que hemos tenido...
Y también hemos hablado del miedo la muerte y de la elección de poder saberlo o no.
Nos hemos quedado con ganas de más ...
New Blog post: Studies on Death & Dying
Posted by Shaheda on June 4, 2019, 7:56 a.m. 1 comment
Although preservation of life is medicine’s central goal, ultimately however, death is an unavoidable outcome. In the last decade, there has been a tremendous increase in nursing homes, assisted living homes, long-term care centers, along with a very significant increase in older people living alone in their own homes in both developed and developing countries