Death Cafe at Home in Park Ridge
A write up of Death Cafe Park Ridge Qld Australia
By Kate Leotta
A small gathering but full of rich discussion that went on for sometime.
After attendees dove into a lucky dip of icebreakers in the living, dying, death space, conversation flowed:
Cremation/Body Disposition in Japanese, Philippine and other cultures.
Being laid to rest on country or other ancestral lands.
The pros and cons of VAD, also organ donation.
The issues with prolonging life, medical models, funeral models.
Death is a human event not just a medical and profit driven one.
Talk of living wakes, living to the full after a terminal diagnosis, dying at home, vigils, rituals, home funerals.
Having choice and control for dying and death.
Having those Advanced Care Planning conversations.
Caring for the Dying is as important as caring for those being born and their Mums.
We need to bring community and humanity back into this space.
The outcome was positive, all seemed uplifted at close of the Cafe.
Best Wishes, Kate.