Death Cafe profile for Rowan Hawkins
Location: United States
About Rowan Hawkins:
I represent Ashen Moon Doula services as a death, birth, and postpartum doula in the nothern area of Colorado in the United States.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
I'm delighted to discuss and talk about death in a bright, warm, and welcoming light and think a Death Cafe is an excellent idea. My hope is to reach to those in a new setting and break the taboo of one of the most realistic inevitabilites of our life, and that it doesn't need to be something mourned.
What would you like your legacy to be?
Death is the only certainty we are given in this life and if we do not enjoy every minute, we won't have lived in the one time we have. To quote The Fastest Indian, "If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you're gone."
Thoughts for sharing:
To quote The Sandman comics, "You lived what anybody gets... You got a lifetime. No more. No less." It is the one thing that is inevitable in life and makes life all the more precious.
Rowan Hawkins's posts on the Death Cafe website
Death Cafe write up: Ashen Moon Greeley Death Cafe
Posted by Rowan Hawkins on Nov. 17, 2025, 9:35 p.m.
Attendance was small again this month, but Skully enjoyed a warm chai while talking about how there are some tribal cultures that still go through ritual cannibalism as part of their funeral services.
With Rowan Hawkins
Dec. 15, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Mountain Central Time)
Accepts donations
Rowan hopes to reach out to her community and have a death-positive space for those to discuss one of the most important and complicated aspects of living. As a death ...
With Rowan Hawkins
Dec. 1, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Mountain Central Time)
Accepts donations
Rowan hopes to reach out to her community and have a death-positive space for those to discuss one of the most important and complicated aspects of living. As a death ...
Death Cafe write up: Ashen Moon Greeley Death Cafe
Posted by Rowan Hawkins on Nov. 17, 2025, 9:27 p.m.
While attendance was small, there were discussions about the emotional grief and steps when having a stillborn or miscarriage.
With Rowan Hawkins
Nov. 17, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Mountain Central Time)
Accepts donations
Rowan hopes to reach out to her community and have a death-positive space for those to discuss one of the most important and complicated aspects of living. As a death ...
With Rowan Hawkins
Nov. 3, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Mountain Central Time)
Accepts donations
Rowan hopes to reach out to her community and have a death-positive space for those to discuss one of the most important and complicated aspects of living. As a death ...
Death Cafe write up: Ashen Moon Greeley Death Cafe
Posted by Rowan Hawkins on Sept. 15, 2025, 10:15 p.m.
While few were in attendance, Skully had a wonderful time as always learning about the difficulties and moral questions of dying for the disabled and the incarcerated in the United States. Complex questions of assistance in dying was also mentioned with these groups.
The affogato was legendary, especially with oreo crumbs and hot fudge!
With Rowan Hawkins
Oct. 20, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Mountain Central Time)
Accepts donations
Rowan hopes to reach out to her community and have a death-positive space for those to discuss one of the most important and complicated aspects of living. As a death ...
With Rowan Hawkins
Oct. 6, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Mountain Central Time)
Accepts donations
Rowan hopes to reach out to her community and have a death-positive space for those to discuss one of the most important and complicated aspects of living. As a death ...
Death Cafe write up: Ashen Moon Greeley Death Cafe
Posted by Rowan Hawkins on Aug. 28, 2025, 9:10 p.m.
While there were few people in attendance, unique cultural views of death and burial were learned and explored. Focusing on China, unspoken complexity of dying was learned as land isn't allotted to cemeteries, creating a digital tombstone that can be cleaned and maintained to ensure the ancestors are remembered and cared for. "Skully" the skeleton cat was happy to be present; the atmosphere was welcoming and the mocha was delicious!
With Rowan Hawkins
Aug. 28, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Mountain Central Time)
Accepts donations
Rowan hopes to reach out to her community and have a death-positive space for those to discuss one of the most important and complicated aspects of living. As a death ...