References for Central Houston's September 2025 Death Cafe
A write up of Central Houston’s Monthly Death Cafe - September 2025
Central Houston's September 2025 Death Cafe
Around 20ish folks attended this past weekend. This month the dialogue focused on thoughts about the afterlife, spirituality, and life philosophies, some of the most personal and potentially contentious of all the topics that come up at Death Cafes. Despite this, I'm grateful for the diversity and respect that emerged. Thank you all for sharing in and building this space.
Below you can find links to various things mentioned during the dialogue.
If there is something missing from my list you'd like to add and easily share with the group, just leave a public comment in the box at the bottom of this page.
Local groups
- University of Houston &Texas Tuition waiver for those 65+
https://uh.edu/financial/payment/fee-waivers/
- Texas Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH-DNR) Order
https://www.hhs.texas.gov/regulations/forms/advance-directives/out-hospital-do-not-resuscitate-ooh-dnr-order
Books
- The Good Death: A Guide for Supporting Your Loved One through the End of Life by Suzanne B. O’Brien
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215750317-the-good-death
- Elephant in the Dark by Rumi
https://islamicschoollibrarian.com/2016/08/10/elephant-in-the-dark-based-on-a-poem-by-rumi-retold-by-mina-javaherbin-illustrated-by-eugene-yelchin/
- To a Mouse by Robert Burns
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse-56d222ab36e33
- "Every soul will taste death" from the Quran
https://quran.com/al-anbya/35
- Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life by Haider Warraich
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939201-modern-death
Film & TV
- Today Show clips about grief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj7-rkxSf_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8Qsmt-9uo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlk_-tI-udg
Misc
- Final Exit Network
https://finalexitnetwork.org/
- Death Doulas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_midwife
- Optimistic nihilism
https://www.louislaves-webb.com/blog/optimistic-nihilism#:~:text=Optimistic%20nihilism%20is%20a%20philosophical,meaning%20and%20direction%20in%20life.
- Pascal's wager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
- Carl Jung on God - "I don't believe, I know"
https://tamboo.co.za/%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B1/jung-on-god/
Looking forward to the next time,
Stephanie
Comments
Here is a short video of the Carl Jung quote: https://youtu.be/kb0toLBlofE?si=fw_QQdTq3lsF4vUj. The words are slightly different.
Posted by James Evans