Latest Death Cafe News
This is a summary of recent articles on grief. I hope you find them interesting and helpful in exploring your own grief experience.
I'm a psychotherapist in the San Francisco area specializing in aging and grief. You can find more resources on my website www.jbamft.com.
https://www.jbamft.com/blog/2019/5/13/recent-articles-on-grief-may-13th
ORGANIZADORAS:
JACQUELINE A. AMARAL
WAGNA T. BARBOSA
Death Cafe write up: Colliers Wood Death Cafe - May 2019
Posted by Cecilia H on May 12, 2019, 1:16 p.m.
Four of us met for the May meeting of the Colliers Wood Death Café during which we acknowledged Dying Matters and the information event ‘Doing Death Differently - Are We Ready?’ the CWDC hosted at the Tooting Bec Lido Pavilion on Saturday morning.
Two of us had not been to this, or any other Death Café before. Having acknowledged the background to the movement, and the ethos of the meetings, we began to talk about a theme which ran throughout the meeting around forgiveness.
We talked about forgiveness rituals, and how important these might be at the end of life – both for the dying, and for those they leave ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Carlisle
Posted by TracyWardCelebrant on May 12, 2019, 2:32 a.m.
It is nearly a year since we had our first meeting and this little cafe has gone from strength to strength.
This meeting had 11 people from all walks of life interested in all walks of death. Funeral directors, local coroners court, solicitors, celebrants, a local poet and recently bereaved. Eclectic begins to cover our band.
We always state that it is not a support group but often experiencing a close death triggers thoughts of mortality in ones own life. I think it's reall important to remember the responsibility to keep people safe in the discussions. As a host you don't often know about the people ...
The article in the newspaper and online was the same - but with a different headline.
See more at: Wirral Globe
Death Cafe write up: NBHPCA Death Cafe
Posted by Rinlev on May 9, 2019, 8:57 a.m.
Hello,
I am extremely interested in attending a session. I find death simultaneously difficult yet fascinating, and feel it would be an incredibly interesting experience to discuss the topic with strangers.
Hoping to be admitted for the session tonight!
Uma Ocasião especial,
hum jeito facil de Falar de Coisas dificeis,
Uma Desculpa Perfeita para Uma
fantástica Conversa!
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Nelson New Zealand
Posted by BarbaraGreene on May 5, 2019, 3:31 a.m.
this was a wonderful session with 3 people having their first Death Cafe experience. They all said they were keen to keep coming too. There was also a good bunch of attendees who have returned many times now. It is so lovely to facilitate this when so many people get so much out of it. Comments this time include:-
Great opportunity to listen, talk, share
and . . . Always helpful, thank you.
Barbara
Video: how to overcome the fear of death
Posted by lorenc_barjami@yahoo.com on May 4, 2019, 10:57 a.m.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Zarautz (10)
Posted by Iñaki Peña Bandrés on May 4, 2019, 3:45 a.m.
On the second of May, eleven men gathered together in our compassionate community to talk about death and dying, frailty, grief and caregiving, instead of talking about football. It was inspired by the work of ‘Toka gizon taldea’, aiming to search for new ways of masculinity. It was special too because it was held just in Basque language.
We talked about the difficulty to show compassion, and when to get close to a person in grief. And we identified a main tool for it, intuition (that feminine value). We mentioned masculine emotional castration and the lacks of masculine traditional roles.
We talked about the topical and traditional way ...
Death Cafe write up: Visalia Death Cafe
Posted by l_burkart@yahoo.com on May 2, 2019, 11:03 p.m. 1 comment
Good Grief!! I've always liked Charlie Brown;)
Lately the topic of grief has been surfacing and getting my direct attention. Death Cafes are the perfect place to process grief exploring one's thoughts and feelings with others in a small group.
For those who are new to Death Cafes, the goal is to provide space not only for our bodies, but our spirits, where topics like grief can be explored with others. Sharing our grief is healthy and normal with the loss of loved ones--pets included.
Meetings will be held monthly at The Center for Spiritual Living around the corner from Brown's Shoes in beautiful downtown ...
Thank-you to Adrienne Pan, host of Radio Active for engaging in a conversation about Edmonton's new Death Cafe.
"Death Cafe is not a place, it's a global movement."
This segment of the program aired on CBC Radio April 30, 2019 at 3PM MST. It is ~7 minutes long.
See more at: CBC Radio Active
Press: Cake, Coffee, and Mortality: Conversations About Death and Dying Come Alive at Edmonton Death Cafe
Posted by Gina Vliet on April 29, 2019, 12:44 p.m.
"A group of Edmontonians meets every month to discuss death positiviyt, preparing fro death, and getting over the taboo of the "D words" - death, dying, deceased. Death Cafes are a growing, global movement, and the Edmonton chapter opened in November 2018."
We did in fact hold our first meeting on ...
See more at: The Star Edmonton
Death Cafe write up: Fillmore Death Cafe
Posted by RevEleesabeth on April 25, 2019, 6:40 p.m.
Summary of April 24, 2019 gathering.
Oddly it was funniest Death Cafe we have ever had. We laughed a lot. Talking about the crazy things people do with the cremains of their loved ones, how important it is to say goodbye ...really vicerally no matter if we cremate or do a full funeral. We also talked about freeze dried dobermans (..really...I could not make that up.) The things people do to keep their loved ones - two and four footed friends in their lives can be extreme..and pretty funny.
Ah we humans are entertaining. Yes?
The two poems we read to begin are from my two favorite ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Edmonton
Posted by Gina Vliet on April 25, 2019, 2:04 p.m.
At the April 24th Death Café, our topics for discussion leaned to the cerebral side. The group opened the discussion by referencing an April 17, 2019 National Post article on scientists restoring brain activity in recently slaughtered pigs, and how that related to Near Death Experiences (NDE’s) and whether we feel anything after we die. Traumatic death came up, and some attendees were yesterday days old when they figured out that bells in Victorian coffins were where the expression “saved by the bell” came from! Talk then went further down the rabbit hole into acid trips and the first law of Thermodynamics, where energy can neither be ...