Death Cafe profile for Catherina
Death Cafe write up: First Death Cafe in Hemel Hempstead
Posted by Catherina on Aug. 9, 2013, 10:02 a.m. 1 comment
Some purple balloons on a silver birch tree marked the location of the first Death Café in Hemel Hempstead. Audrey, my friend, had offered her house and baking skills to hold this Death Café, after we had together visited a Café in London last November.
I only advertised this Death Café through the websites of the Natural Death Centre and the Death Café and further through Facebook, a local school's newsletter and word of mouth and I was overwhelmed with the response.
I was originally thinking of contacting the local newspapers and putting posters up at our local hospice, libraries and GP surgeries, but I am now ...
With Catherina Petit-van Hoey
April 7, 2013, 2.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (Greenwich Mean Time)
Donations (suggested £5.00)
I really liked the relaxed, informal and respectful ethos of the Death Café - not forgetting the yummy cakes - when I visited a couple of Death Café's in London.
So ...