Death Cafe profile for TessaGibson
With Tessa Gibson
April 19, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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To honour our grief…is to fulfil a covenant with soul. Francis Weller
With Tessa Gibson
March 29, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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Trees know how to die. They put out their best blossoms at the end.
DH Lawrence
With Tessa Gibson
March 1, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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Look to this Day! For it is life, the very life of life. Look well, therefore, to this day! Such is the salutation of the dawn. Ancient Sanskrit Poem
With Tessa Gibson
Jan. 25, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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When I am at risk of drowning / I close my lips tight /against the pressing seawater /
my head tilting backwards / refusing to breathe in / and I am surfacing, like the ...
With Tessa Gibson
Nov. 16, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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Our strivings not to think about death are never entirely successful: long before your own death becomes a probability, you’ll occasionally find yourself in the grip of that middle-of-the-night ...
With Tessa Gibson
Oct. 12, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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How do I carry the knowledge that I'm dying, as if in a pouch around my neck, there every day? What does it do to me? The knowledge of ...
With Tessa Gibson
Sept. 14, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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How many we know by now
who are dead! We, who were young,
now count the cost of having been…
Our hair turns white with our ripening
as though to ...
With Tessa Gibson
June 29, 2024, 2.45 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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There’s never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life. We’re never allowed to know when this fantastic voyage might end… Paul ...
With Tessa Gibson
June 1, 2024, 2.45 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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To believe that your death will happen alters your relationship to life… a move from focusing on ‘how things are’ to the fact ‘that things are’ – to the sheer astonishing ...
With Tessa Gibson
April 27, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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In the end comes also our beginning, the ancient sense of a door opening to some final unknown, some invisible voice attempting to help us come to terms with our ...
With Tessa Gibson
March 30, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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With Tessa Gibson
Feb. 24, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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It is not death or pain that is a fearful thing,
but the fear of death and pain.
Epictetus
With Tessa Gibson
Jan. 20, 2024, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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Today is a good day to die for all the things of my life are present.
Crazy Horse
With Tessa Gibson
Nov. 18, 2023, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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When the body dies, where will they go,
those migrant birds and prayer calls,
as heat from sheets when taken from a dryer?
With voices of the ones I loved ...
With Tessa Gibson
Oct. 21, 2023, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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You can frighten people with death or an idea of their own mortality,
or it can actually give them vigour.Damien Hirst
With Tessa Gibson
Sept. 23, 2023, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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Even as we recognise our own inevitable ending, there arises a feeling of gratitude, of grace, that we have been gifted with this time, these particular people, and this astonishing ...
With Tessa Gibson
June 24, 2023, 2.45 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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Each death we experience contains every death we have ever lived through, Russian dolls of bereavement waiting to be unpacked.
Rupert Callender
With Tessa Gibson
May 20, 2023, 2.45 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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Death is the natural and sacred end of our lives.
Zenith Virago
With Tessa Gibson
April 22, 2023, 3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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…give us each our own death, the dying that proceeds, from each of our lives:
the way we loved, the meanings we made, our need.
Rilke’s Book of Hours
With Tessa Gibson
March 18, 2023, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
Emily Dickinson
With Tessa Gibson
Feb. 18, 2023, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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What three things can never be done?
Forget. Keep Silent. Stand alone.
Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
With Tessa Gibson
Jan. 21, 2023, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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You only live twice:
Once when you’re born,
And once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming
With Tessa Gibson
Jan. 21, 2023, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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You only live twice:
Once when you’re born,
And once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming
With Tessa Gibson
Nov. 19, 2022, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
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The best preparation for death is to be open to the present.
With Tessa Gibson
Oct. 22, 2022, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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With Tessa Gibson
Sept. 24, 2022, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (BST)
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With Tessa Gibson
Nov. 23, 2019, 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. (GMT)
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