Death Cafe write-ups
Death Cafe' Arkansas Write up
Posted by Melinda Motley on Sept. 14, 2016, 3:46 p.m.
Fourteen people showed up at our first Death Cafe’ meeting, doubling our expectations!
There were massage therapists, yoga teachers, hospice volunteers and care givers, retirees from various states, and organic farmers. Everyone shared one or more reasons why they came.
After introductions, a moment of silence was held to honor those who perished in the 9/11 attacks in NYC and Washington, DC. A lively conversation quickly ensued on topics such as deaths of loved ones that can create a higher awareness of our own last moment, making a plan for ourselves, understanding state legalities, and recognizing when end of life is near. The Five Wishes document ...
Over a dozen people attended the September 13 Death Café held at the Lebanon Community Library; this was the second Death Café we've had in Lebanon County. The conversation was thoughtful, engrossing and sentimental at times. Those who attended shared moments, memories and thoughs; there were questions, too.
And there were gorgeous little cupcakes and to-die-for pastries, coffee, tea and scrumptious candy, too. Thank you to the wonderful staff of the Lebanon Community Library and to the folks at All That & a Bag of Chips and to everyone who came to the Death Café last night.
We are looking ahead to the next one!
Palm Beach County Death Cafe Write up
Posted by suzyanand@mac.com on Sept. 13, 2016, 11:51 a.m.
Our first gathering included 6 of us spanning four decades age-wise and presenting as 4 women and 2 men.
We went around introducing ourselves and what brought us to Death Cafe.
I had two favorite take aways from the sharing.
A palliative care nurse said, "nobody plans on a trauma," which reminds me why talking about these subjects is so crucial.
A former heroin addict who said he'd been "dead" twice said, "I find the small deaths of daily life harder to talk about and handle than the big one at the end!"
Death Cafe Hoddesdon Write up
Posted by deathcafehoddesdon on Sept. 13, 2016, 6:24 a.m.
We started running Death Cafe Hoddesdon with some trepidation in February 2016, not knowing how it would go, whether anyone would turn up or if the conversations would flow.
We needn’t have worried.
Though never large in number, every month we see new and familiar faces and the conversations had are never the same.
People come for so many different reasons: to talk about their own experience of death and dying, wanting to help a close friend, a desire to be more prepared ahead of needing to deal with it, simply an interest in the subject but without any friends or family willing to talk about it ...
The second Death Café in Lancaster County happened on the same day that TEDX-Lancaster did.
Our numbers were a bit lowered from our fitst one, but the people who came connected with sincere, considered dialogue.
Everyone who attended pretty much agreed that we ought to continue the Death Cafes - the cookies and cheesecake were good, too.
Chattanooga's first Death Cafe was held on September 1, 2016 at the public library's downtown location. We had a great turn-out: 14 in attendance including a reporter from the local newspaper. We gathered in the auditorium at 6pm for tea and cake. The cake was lemon with a lavender buttercreamfrosting provided by Welcome Home of Chattanooga, a local non-profit dedicated to providing death with dignity to the homeless population.
Death Cafe in Seoul Write up
Posted by http://cafe.naver.com/healingdying on Sept. 5, 2016, 10:01 p.m.
Taking place Death cafe is very meaningful .
we will hold it every two month.
thanks for jon of Deathcafe founder
Belleville, IL Death Cafe Write up
Posted by maggieboone on Aug. 30, 2016, 3:28 p.m.
Belleville Death Café Reflections from 8/27/2016
Wow, what a great discussion! We truly missed everyone who was unable to make it. We had Mr. Chong Lee and his associates from KBS in San Francisco join us and filmed the whole discussion meeting for his documentary his is making. After the discussion meeting, Mr. Lee interviewed about five participants.
The discussion started with something that Sharon had wanted to cover concerning an incident where a friend of hers with a DNR went from the hospital back to a nursing facility and something happened where the nursing facility did not honor the DNR. Unfortunately, the person died anyway ...
Tampa Death Cafe Write up
Posted by Cat Martin on Aug. 24, 2016, 5:20 p.m.
An article in The Tampa Bay Times really helped to publise the event. Conversation was lively and wide ranging. Thanks to Brianna, and to Roberto and those who attended
Kemptville Death Cafe Write up
Posted by BethDonovanHospice on Aug. 15, 2016, 8:56 a.m.
We held our first Death Cafe yesterday, renting space from a local coffee house. We had a great turn out - over 20 people! Attendees were a mix of hospice volunteers, people who had heard about the event from friends and those who spotted our ads.
We broke into groups of 4 - 7 people. I had debated switching the groups up at the 1 hour mark, but every table seemed to have their conversation flowing easily, and I decided to let the original groups continue for the duration of the 2 hour event.
Preparing for the event, I was a bit nervous about not having topics to discuss, but ...
Death Cafe West Hampstead Write up
Posted by Josefine Speyer on Aug. 12, 2016, 6:13 a.m.
This was our 4th Death Café West Hampstead and part of Dying Matters Awareness Week. Philomena Corrigan co-facilitated.
One journalist attended and took part in the closing circle. He was filming for a Huffington Post website article which included an interview with me and brief shots of the actual Death Café. It was published to be part of Dying Matters Awareness Week. See it here:
Last year, at Death Café Hampstead, during Dying Matters Awareness Week 2015 our Death Café was well attended and we organized a separate one to be filmed for Metro online. It was a small ...
Death Cafe West Hampstead Write up
Posted by Josefine Speyer on Aug. 12, 2016, 5:07 a.m.
This was our 1st Death Café at Café Rouge in West Hampstead. Philomena Corrigan co-facilitated
30 booked to attend
12 attended plus two facilitators
11 feedback forms were returned
Average age: 60.5
8 women: (aged 39– 64) 2 men (aged 67 & 81)
Overall, how would you rate this event?(10 = excellent, 1 = poor) 8.5/10
People's experiences of this ...
Montpelier Death Cafe Write up
Posted by MontpelierDeathCafe on Aug. 10, 2016, 4:34 p.m.
Stuff, Suffering, and Summer in Vermont
As we gathered on a beautiful summer evening last month it seemed everyone was full of gratitude for the space The Montpelier Death Cafe has created in our community. "Coming to Death Cafe and listening to what people share about their own experiences has helped me immensely in how I process my own thinking on death and dying," said one person as we checked in.
Fear, specifically what we fear about death seemed to be on people's minds. "If I fear anything it's not so much death as it is not enjoying life and what I have… Death Cafe has ...
Death Cafe Sacramento Write up
Posted by Death Cafe Sacramento - Sandra Young on Aug. 9, 2016, 11:55 a.m.
Since the 4th of July holiday fell on our regular meeting day (first Monday of each month), we met on Tuesday, July 5th.
Great turn-out with lots of new attendees. Several noted they became aware of our group after viewing the Christina Mendonsa ABC news segment featuring Sacramento Death Cafe.
Lots of lively discussion and wonderful cake, brownies and cookies.
Death Cafe Newtown Write up
Posted by Melissa Halliday on Aug. 4, 2016, 10:18 p.m.
Thanks to all who attended last Sunday: provocative, life affirming conversations on topics as broad as addressing the disconnect and missed opportunities at end of life- families struggling with moving from hope that a cure will be found/ disease prevention and all the medical interventions that can entail to accepting the opportunity for quality of life in the precious time still left and filling it with love and happy memories or simply the chance to bring peace..... A paediatric doctor gave her take on this whilst medical students gave us hope in the system of the future with doctors that were more compassionate in outlook and in the ...