Philosophical Night





We had a great night Tuesday with a room full of lovely people! If you missed us, be sure to watch our page for the next date and location.
 
It seems literature in death was a big topic of the evening. One absolutely gorgeous book in the works, waiting to be published, was lovingly shared, and tears were shed. We can't wait to promote it when it comes out, so BOLO! Other books mentioned were "The Empty Room" on sibling loss, "Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other", "The Next Place", "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" about childhood trauma, and "The Wounded Healer."
 
The movie "The Farewell" focuses on mutual pretense, an all-too-common theme, when one is dying. A movie that didn't get mention but should have is "'Night, Mother" on suicide. If you like thrillers, "Hereditary" is grief-focused in a thriller movies sort-of-way. The persons sharing didn't want to give too much away, so we'll have to check it out.
 
We discussed other media like the Philosophy Tube channel on YouTube about mental health and suicide, Brene' Brown on sympathy vs. empathy and her TED Talk "The Power of Vulnerability", and Stacey Clifford Simplican was also a point of reference.
 
Other themes were how cultural differences and poverty affect death while death is still the great equalizer. We hashed about pet death, sibling death, spousal death, and parental death. In addition, many concepts of ambiguous loss arose. C-PTSD was discussed as well as harm-reduction work, anarchist propaganda (it really was related to death the way it was presented), sense of control (or lack of), propaganda, permissions, platitudes, poverty equaling violence, and The Opus Peace Project with the concept of Soul Injury (https://opuspeace.org/soul-injury).
 
Our favorite eval of the night, when asked what would you tell someone thinking of attending a Death Cafe' was, "Hell yeah, do it!" What more can we say?

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