Death Cafe writeup for 7th May 2026 Horsham
A write up of Horsham West Sussex Death Cafe
By LouHobbs
This was our first Death Café event and we have been so pleased with the positive feedback we’ve received.
13 people came along and left saying they felt more connected and that they’d really appreciated the opportunity to talk about death and dying when so many people around them in their lives weren’t able to have those conversations with them.
So what did we talk about? So much – and the following gives you a flavour:
- How difficult it was to talk about planning for your own death with your children when they thought you were being morbid
- Whether you should really ‘sort out all your clutter’ before you died so that your family didn’t have to do it – or whether it was actually a helpful part of the grieving process for a family to do that
- What did it actually mean: ‘to have a good death’?
- That many people really wanted to die at home where they had more choice and were able to personalise their ending rather than go into a care/nursing home or die in hospital – but how we didn’t really know what we could legitimately ask for or insist on
- Was having a Direct Funeral (becoming more popular) a helpful thing for your family or not?
- That other countries do death and dying very differently and we heard a wonderful story from another culture that really got us thinking about how we do things in the UK
- The importance of thinking and planning ahead and considering what was important to you around your own death, including the admin of setting up a Lasting Power of Attorney, say.
We do hope you can come along to our next event