No participants, but had a silver lining
A write up of Peninsula Death Cafe
I didn't realize until a couple days before that my event was published on deathcafe.com. Since my event wasn't published early on deathcafe.com, very few people were able to see the event. Also, I didn't do much outreach either due to being busy and having a lack of network. Outside of deathcafe.com, I posted an event on Facebook only.
On the day of, I showed up, but no one attended (which I expected). I ended up reading. I took it as a learning experience to double check with the Death Cafe team to see if my event is published. This was a pure intuitive urge anyway -- a test to see what would happen.
A couple weeks after, a hospice nurse reached out to me sharing interest in the next one and sharing networks. Even though no one attended my first event, I think just putting the effort out there into the universe planted a seed into something that can grow.