Death Cafe profile for Barb Bienvenue
Location: Canada
About Barb Bienvenue:
I am a wife, mom of six, grandma of 7, retired school music teacher, piano teacher, and music leader of our local Catholic church.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
My baby brother died at 18 months, when I was 15 years old. As a result, I have a long history of death and dying. As a church musician, in my 30's I struggled with leading music at funerals. As I grew in my faith and understanding, it is now a gift I can do for people. After taking many courses, workshops, conferences and training about Palliative Care, I learned about Death Café. I think there is a great need, to provide an opporunity for people to be able to have somewhere and someone to talk about their grief, about death, and about dying. Our society, has a great uncomfortableness about talking about death. Death Café can be that place, if a person has a need to talk about it.
What would you like your legacy to be?
To have helped people live with the unimaginable...
Thoughts for sharing:
There is a great book, I've recently read by a doctor who works at a Hospice. Death is But a Dream, Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End. Another book, I've recently purchased for friends is It's Okay that you're not okay. Another one I learned today is called Bearing the Unbearable.
Barb Bienvenue's posts on the Death Cafe website
With Barb Bienvenue
Oct. 24, 2024, 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (Mountain )
Free
With Barbara Bienvenue
Sept. 26, 2024, 7.00 p.m. - 8.45 p.m. (Mountain Standard)
Accepts donations
My baby brother died at 18 months, when I was 15 years old. As a result, I have a long history of death and dying. As a church musician, in ...