Death Cafe write-ups
Death Cafe Austin Write up
Posted by Death Café Austin on Sept. 13, 2013, 5:13 p.m. 4 comments
More than 20 people gathered at Cafe Express last night for Austin's 3rd Death Cafe! We enjoyed a new format and a new venue for this event. Breaking into several tables of 4 people each, groups seemed to move into deeper questions and conversations than in the larger group format of earlier events. Rave reviews came from our attendees through the evaluation sheets. The venue was a bit noisy, but that may be resolved for future events.
Several folks from previous Austin Death Cafes attended. People from late 20's to 60ish and more men (6) attended this event and actively participated - moving to new tables after ...
Death Cafe | Ottawa Write up
Posted by deathcafeottawa on Sept. 12, 2013, 10:42 a.m. 2 comments
Ottawa welcomed Death Café with open arms. Without a doubt, the time to shift this conversation, and most importantly to HAVE the conversation, is now.
Much to our surprise, the June 19th event sold out within 24 hours of an Ottawa Citizen article hitting the stands, and we saw the wait list for the next event, on November 6th, grow to over 80 people.
Our first Death Café was held at a beloved local café, Illume Espresso Bar. We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful space. One that transformed seamlessly into our very own living room. It was an event that quickly became a gathering of ...
Columbus Ohio Death Cafe #9 Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 9:53 a.m.
Second LGBT Death Cafe in the US! Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 9:51 a.m.
Columbus Ohio Death Cafe #7 Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 9:45 a.m.
I Need to Know
By Lizzy Miles
This Death Café was an exciting event because we had just recently been featured in the Huffington Post in an article, “Death Cafes grow as a Place to Discuss, Learn about End of Life.” The article garnered hundreds of comments and I started to get emails from people who were interested in attending. I worried that we might have TOO big of a crowd.
But let’s be real here. People aren’t beating down the doors to have a conversation about death. It take a brave soul to face their own mortality. I used to worry about attendance, but now ...
Columbus Ohio Death Cafe #6 Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 9:41 a.m.
The Death Café events never cease to amaze me in the variety of attendees, which leads to unique conversations each time. This Death Café had some repeat attendees and some new ones. Mix in an attendee with a Master’s in Transpersonal Psychology and an attendee who ...
First LGBT Death Cafe in the US! Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 9:35 a.m.
The First LGBT Death Café in the United States
By Lizzy Miles
It was raining buckets on the evening that we had our first LGBT Death Café. The event was hosted in partnership with Stonewall Columbus, an organization that has been serving the central Ohio LGBT community with programs and services for over thirty years. I was so grateful that they agreed to co-organize this pilot program.
A funny side note about our cake for the event. Lori Gum, my co-facilitator and the Stonewall Program Director, ordered it. She requested that it had tombstones, but a blue sky. The cake decorator automatically asked if it was for Halloween ...
Columbus Ohio Death Cafe #3 Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 9 a.m.
I am continually amazed at the diversity of conversations that arise from the Death Café events. Each event is unique and the variety stems from the topics brought up by the participants. While Maria and I call ourselves facilitators, we are more like hosts that start the ...
Columbus Ohio Death Cafe #2 Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 8:38 a.m.
Eddie Izzard may ask you to choose between cake or death, but at the Death Café, you can have cake AND death (conversation). Twenty-one people attended the second Columbus, Ohio Death Café on August 23, 2012.
When asked what interested them about the Death Café, the attendees ...
First Death Cafe in the US! Write up
Posted by Columbus Death Cafe/Lizzy Miles on Sept. 12, 2013, 8:14 a.m.
Thursday night’s Death Café event in Columbus, Ohio was a pleasant way to spend the evening. Although it was hot and muggy outside, 13 brave participants came to gather with strangers to talk about death.
More than half of the attendees who RSVP’d ended up ...
Denver Death Cafe Write up
Posted by Anita Larson on Sept. 10, 2013, 11:12 a.m.
Highlights of Denver’s 1st Death Café
September 8, 2013
Welcome! Many thanks to Wy Livingstone and Wystone’s Tea for hosting Denver’s first Death Cafe and to Alex our wonderful server. Thank you to Larry Larson & Sherry McDowell for helping with signups, greeting guests and taking notes during the event. Intro about Death Café – what it is and what it is not. Visit www.DeathCafe.com to learn more of the history and find Death Cafes in other cities or countries.
Denver Death Café has a Face Book page here: www.facebook.com/denverdeathcafe Please like the page and post any thoughts, comments or resources ...
The 2nd PDX Death Cafe Write up
Posted by Holly Pruett on Sept. 9, 2013, 4:21 p.m.
Despite near 100-hundred degree weather, our 2nd PDX Death Café drew an astonishing 58 folks to the cool environs of Cyril’s at the Clay Pigeon Winery. You can see what participants had to say about the experience in the word cloud posted on our page (the bigger the word, the more frequently mentioned). Interesting, open, stimulating, comforting, honest, thought-provoking, and friendly were the descriptors that led the pack. Nearly everyone completed an evaluation form. All but two people indicated that they would consider attending a future Death Café and would recommend it to friends and family.
What We Served Up
§ We opened with some words by ...
The 1st PDX Death Cafe Write up
Posted by Holly Pruett on Sept. 9, 2013, 4:14 p.m. 3 comments
If asked to go indoors on a gloriously sunny springtime day to talk about Death, would you expect to describe the experience as fun, exciting, inspirational or enlivening? Those in fact are some of the most common words participants used to describe the first PDX Death Café, held April 28 at the Bijou Café in downtown Portland, Oregon.
The top descriptors volunteered by our 60 participants were: interesting, informative, enlightening, and educational – remarkable given that this event presented absolutely no content. No featured speakers, no presentations, no informational handouts. The format consisted exclusively of sitting with three or four strangers and sharing why they chose to come to ...
Death Cafe Boothbay Write up
Posted by Lynne Tobin on Sept. 6, 2013, 1:38 p.m.
Boothbay's 2nd Death Cafe was a great success. Five new people attended. Discussions centered on green funerals and home burials.
Everyone enjoyed cupcakes ornamented with skull rings.
So much to talk about, so little time!
Death Cafe in Glasgow Write up
Posted by FinalFling on Sept. 4, 2013, 10:55 a.m.
Review first published in The Drum on 7th August 2013.
Final Fling, the group which “aims to be to death what Mumsnet is to birth” took the unusual step of hosting a 'Death Café' event to market and promote its services. Final Fling describe the cafés as “an informal group discussion over a cuppa”.
The group is supported to talk about how their life experience informs their view of death and how their experience of death shapes their life. 25 Death Cafes have been held in six countries so far.
Maureen O’Brien, an Australian nurse who recently lost her father, went along to take on one ...