Launch of First SW London Death Cafe





We had around 20 people attending this wonderful first Death Cafe in Putney. Discussion ranged from why we are interested in talking about death to what is our religious background as this is such a strong framework to our relationship with death. This was followed by a very lively break where some mingled whilst some carried on involved discussions and connections.

We finished with looking at our fears around death. The last comment of the evening being that it would be great to hold the Death Cafe whilst eating some "Death by chocolate" cake. So, yet again humour was present!

Some feedback was:

Thank you Suzanne, truly for being part of a really enriching evening.
 
The venue was fine, all we needed in feeling comfortable, fed if we wanted and disappearing as we engaged.
 
 The discussion went amazingly, everyone getting involved with minimal help from me.   What was so brilliant was that we were such a diverse group in so many ways including our ages and occupations.   It was as if unconsciously - or with your mystic skills you had put together a wondrous eclectic mixture!  Some worked with palliative care, some had much experience of loved ones dying, and those most youthful were so very interested in death and in being aware of it and thereby the increasing preciousness of life itself.  We feared the process of dying but mostly not death itself". T.A. Psychotherapist.

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