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Death Cafe write up: Monmouth County Death Cafe
Posted by Beth Almerini on March 28, 2019, 3:40 p.m.
Home funerals, green burials, near death experiences,death and dying from different cultural perspectives, experiences with death as a young child, and more were part of the discussion at this week's Death Cafe. And, of course, there was cake! We had a large and convivial group, with many planning to return to continue the conversation next month.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Iowa
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on March 27, 2019, 12:49 p.m.
For March’s Death Café Iowa we met at a Plymouth Place on Ingersoll. Buffy Peters and Becca Suvalsky (members of the Young Bereavement Professionals Group) facilitated the group. We had 9 people in attendance, 1 man and 8 women, and participants ranged in ages and professions.
Members brought several new interesting topics to the group this month. Topics included the Scro Machine by Dr. Philip Narco which is a portable nitrogen machine in Sweden that is being used to assist in death with dignity. The group also discussed animal taxidermy, donating body to science, and a recent article about a body farm in Colorado that has been ...
Practitioners question: Death Cafe Cancellation
Posted by Katrina Manikad on March 27, 2019, 7:49 a.m.
I just emailed through contact us but thought someone may be able to answer this here. I need to cancel a scheduled Cafe... does anyone know if there is a way to do this on the site?
Thanks! Katrina
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Sundre Alberta
Posted by sundrepalliativecare on March 26, 2019, 11:48 a.m.
Our first Death Cafe was a big success!
We had lots of inspiring conversation, which created some thoughtful moments. The topics were enlightening and flowed from one topic to another.
The chocolate cake was 'exceptional' according to the evaluations and raves. This is a must for the next Death Cafe, we were told.
We plan to hold the second Death Cafe in early June 2019. Stay tuned!
Link: Facing Your Mortality: Can we prepare for Death?
Posted by Deerheart on March 25, 2019, 8:21 a.m.
Death cannot be truly understood. Death is better understood within the soul, our essential being, and our heart. In a culture where dying and death is feared, we have no verbal language to express the immensity of dying, death or grief; no aptitude to be a faithful witness or to ...
Death Cafe write up: Malvern Death Cafe
Posted by sue on March 21, 2019, 9:58 a.m.
This was one of three meetings of Malvern Death cafe that week in March, 2019. Several folks who had never been to a death cafe before came to each of them. Speaking of their own interest in death and end of life matters, of how important it is to speak of these things. Of the sensations and stuckness experienced when a person wont speak of the dead, the dying, their own or another's. Of the huge to do lists which need dealing with preferably before I am on a drip taking my last breath.
A social anthropologist came too, a delightful woman doing her thesis on Death ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Corvallis
Posted by dorbolo on March 21, 2019, 9:48 a.m.
Last night seven of us explored topics of individuality, social atomism vs. holism, and cells & viruses in a lively discussion.Do cells/viruses and social groups have individuality the ways that we think that humans do? How does our concept of death relate to our concept of individuality?
Death Cafe write up: Wilton Just Friends Death Cafe
Posted by John Painter on March 21, 2019, 6:47 a.m.
We held our first Death Cafe yesterday with five attending and talked over tea, fruit punch and blueberry bundt cake. Though participants were initially uneasy with not having an agenda, over the course of two hours the group became more comfortable and fluid with different participants talking about things that came to their mind. There was some suggestion that the cafe offered one participant in particular a caring setting to speak and be heard regarding loss they had experienced and had few other outlets to safely share. The discussions ranged from writing ones obituary ahead of time to family discord, cremation, and candy. There was also recommendation to ...
After my father passed away, 10 weeks after I witnessed the attacks of 9/11 (and unrelated to it), I collected and translated poet Rainer Maria Rilke's letters of condolence. 17 years later I published Rilke's The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief and Transformation. The book helped ...
Could you tell me your policy on accessibility please? This is probably not yhe correct area to write in but I can't find a way to contact the administrators. I'd really like to go to Thornhill but it's in an inaccessible venue.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Albany, NY
Posted by DeathCafeAlbany on March 19, 2019, 8:56 p.m.
Looking for some clarification on what to do with the surveys when they are finished? Do we need to keep them after we have read through them?
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe DC
Posted by Sharon Pajka on March 19, 2019, 8:46 a.m.
The event was part of my Dark Tourism course. Many of the local Death Cafe events are not language-accessible for ASL users so I hosted the event.
My students made cookies and I brought a cake. Everyone stayed beyond the time and while it took a bit for them to get the discussion started, once it started they did not want to stop.
I always enjoy freshmen/ upper class student-interactions. Two of my freshmen from an earlier class were trying to sneak in when I told them they were invited. They stayed until the end.
Practitioners question: Probate and will solicitors
Posted by Chorltondeathcafe on March 19, 2019, 8:02 a.m.
Hi all, I've noticed that staff from at least 2 firms of probate solicitors have asked to come to our Death Cafe, with a view to setting up one of their own.
I have welcomed them, of course, but I feel uneasy as to whther it is within the ...
New Blog post: A week to go
Posted by bob paterson-watt on March 14, 2019, 10:52 a.m.
It is both strange and interesting to look forward to a shared conversation about death, in particular with an unknown configuration of family, friends, neighbours and strangers who have yet to give shape to that group and its discussion. Who will come? Why or why not? Will there be enough cake? Tea AND coffee? Upstairs in the entry/sanctuary area or downstairs in a room that is not overtly 'religious space.' Sigh. So many questions ...