Death Cafe profile for Decorina
Location: United States
What brings you to Death Cafe?
I am interested in discussions about death in American culture. My friends don't want to talk with me about it so I looked for a group like this one.
Thoughts for sharing:
A quote from Linda Ellerbee: "I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on acount of darkness."
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Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe of Metro Denver
Posted by Decorina on June 23, 2014, 11:05 a.m.
It was a pleasure to attend this meeting. Interesting viewpoints from everyone present.
I spoke of an obituary in the NYT for a woman who ended her life as she neared the end of Alzeimer's and saw a link here on the Death Cafe site. Here is a story from NPR about her: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/23/323330486/how-a-womans-plan-to-kill-herself-helped-her-family-grieve
Thank you Nancy for hosting and I hope to see the group next month. It is so important for us to talk about death and "mainstream" it so that some of the taboos and fears that surround it can start to lessen for ...