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Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe at St. John Fisher University

Posted by lmaccammon on Sept. 10, 2023, 11:25 a.m.

Death Cafés are non-profit community events that provide people with a safe, respectful, and comfortable place to talk about death and dying over coffee, tea, and delicious cake. There are no scripts, no themes, and no agendas.  The objective is “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.”

Based on the work of Swiss Sociologist, Bernard Crettaz, the first Death Café was started in the UK in 2010 by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid.  In 2012, hospice social worker, Lizzy Miles, was the first person to offer a Death Café in the US. Since then, the ...

Death Cafe: Death Cafe at St. John Fisher University

Posted by lmaccammon on Sept. 10, 2023, 11:14 a.m.

With St. John Fisher University

Sept. 19, 2023, 12.30 p.m. - 1.45 p.m. (Daylight Savings Time)

Free

Sponsored by the Interfaith Council at St. John Fisher University, the Religious Studies and Philosophy Departments, the Ethics Minor Program, the Wegman School of Nursing, and Campus Ministry