Death Cafe profile for TessaGibson
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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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