Like pulling teeth
A write up of Death Cafe Ocala
By Teddy
After having facilitated Death Cafe Ocala since late 2013, the past year has been very slow.
We had hoped, that movping our meetings to the other side of town, where there are a lot of retirement communities, would have more people come and attend our meetings.
We started meeting in the Choir room of a church. Signed on with MeetUp, in order to make it easier for people to find out about us.
In addition to a monthly Death Cafe meeting, we spun off a second group with a less confrontational sounding name "Peaceful Passing", where we offer guest-speakers, or watch a video about various aspects of death & dying. And discuss that.
Still, it has been like pulling teeth. Many of our initial group of 3-6 have gotten involved with other activities and only come occasionally, or not at all anymore.
I will try and get some more publicity in hopes of reaching more new people during the next six months.