Do you have a death wish?
A write up of Nashville's Death Cafe
By lswdeb
"Do you have a death wish?" is not a question normally bandied about in seriousness. But have you ever actually asked whether a parent, partner or friend has a wish, or wishes, concerning their death? Burial or cremation? Where would they like to die? It's not easy to do......but having a safe, comfortable place to start this conversation might help...
This was my fourth death cafe in Nashville TN and it just keeps getting better. I have noticed the attandence has gotten smaller but the conversation is more AMAZING...The numbers do not matter for me. I have a few people who come regularly but most are new people who have a story to tell...and every story is different....When I orginially started the Death Cafe I was worried about being in "the bible belt" however I have found even though "the belt" is here people are still asking questions about death and more importantly about life. During last weeks meeting a gentle explained death to him as being like birth...Hmmm..the correclation being that our "minds" are not meant to remember everything. So to him death is truly a journey and he was sure of the ending...Is that what death is all about? The journey not the ending???? Until next time...