Write up of Manly NSW Death Cafe
A write up of Manly NSW Death Cafe
By mknight
Each time Death Café convenes, and because attendees bring different life experiences with them and different questions, the overall ‘tone’ has a distinctive ‘note’. Not only that, but it never ceases to astound me at Death Café, at how generously people share in such a frank way, intimate and very personal aspects of their life, their knowledge and understanding of end-of-life matters, and their spiritual belief systems. And our July Death Café was no exception.
In addition to chatting about ‘all things death’, a focus of discussion was death education and associated extracurricular activities, which was embraced with great enthusiasm. A recent online post (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-13/tas-death-planning-party-funeral-taboo-conversations/104090954) about a ‘death-planning party’ had caught our attention and we were all keen to explore this opportunity in the near future.
As usual the time flew by and before we knew it it was time to pack up and head back out into ‘life’, feeling comforted by the warm conversation and companionship we had all shared and experienced.