Honoring Susannah Rohland & References for Central Houston's November 2024 Death Cafe
A write up of Central Houston’s Monthly Death Cafe - November 2024
Central Houston's November 2024 Death Cafe
We had ~20 people attend this month's dialogue.
As before, I've compiled some notes. Below you can find links to various things mentioned during the dialogue:
Local events and groups:
- until November 17th: Theatre adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking
https://mainstreettheater.com/year-of-magical-thinking/
- The Jung Center https://junghouston.org/
Books
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815.The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56769575-stiff?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=y2mq0EL51m&rank=2
- King Arthur and the Holy Grail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail
- Leave Nothing Unsaid by Jody Noland https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25714119-leave-nothing-unsaid
https://www.jodynoland.com/category/leave-nothing-unsaid/
- Ecclesiastes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes
- "Morphine" by Heinrich Heine https://allpoetry.com/poem/8522783-Morphine-by-Heinrich-Heine
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1420.Hamlet?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9wq3e516TW&rank=1
- John Keats (various works) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11978.John_Keats?from_search=true&from_srp=true
Film & TV:
- Soylent Green (1973) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/
- Harold and Maude (1971) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- True Confessions (1981) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083232/
Misc:
- Texas Death with Dignity https://texasdeathwithdignity.org/
- Final Exit Network https://finalexitnetwork.org/
- World Federation of Right to Die Societies https://wfrtds.org/
- Antinatalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
- The Death Deck & The End of Life Deck
https://thedeathdeck.com/
https://thedeathdeck.com/pages/eol-deck
- Snug Safety App https://www.snugsafe.com/
- Body farms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm
- Phone of the Wind
https://thetelephoneofthewind.com/
https://www.mywindphone.com/
Looking forward to the next time,
Stephanie