Death Cafe write-ups
This is an online event. Please send a message to request Zoom link to join the online meeting.
The object of our Death Cafe is to break the taboo we share about discussing the inevitable. We will focus on how Covid-19 has influenced and/or changed our hopes, wishes and fears of Death.
Online Death Cafe Chorlton Write up
Posted by Chorltondeathcafe on May 15, 2020, 12:47 p.m.
Tips for hosting a large Death Cafe on Zoom
- Everyone booked by email. I was wary of a person attending with whom others might feel unsafe, so when a new person I’d not met before emailed and wanted to book, I engaged them in an email conversation a little first. Asked where they lived, if they’d been to a DC before, what their name was if it wasn’t obvious.
Once they’d chatted on email, then I sent them the link and extra info.
(One person emailed to book, then didn’t reply to my ‘chat’ and disappeared. They hadn’t told me their name ...
Tucson Friendly & Fearless Death Cafe Write up
Posted by TucsonFFDeathCafe on May 14, 2020, 8:50 p.m.
We’ve now had 7 Tucson Friendly and Fearless Death Cafés meeting virtually via zoom. I’ve hosted our local café for years and wasn’t sure how the virtual experience would be. We have all been excited by the “global Café front door” and have been joined by people from both coasts, areas outside Tucson in Arizona, and even London! It could be that the pandemic brings death closer to the bone for all of us, death looming larger than ever in our personal and planetary experience, but I’m finding our Café conversations arrestingly tender, filled with deep questioning, soul searching, and beautiful intimate sharing ...
Introduction
This particular Death Café was held during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
It was held using Google Meet to overcome the social distancing issues associated with a physical gathering. Nonetheless, we came prepared with a cuppa and the occasional nibble.
Key issues discussed:
· People are feeling a greater sense of their own mortality at present
· One funeral director is offering monthly peer bereavement support groups, which are open to all, regardless of whether they have used the company’s services.
· There has been a significant increase in the number of deaths in the Leeds area’s Jewish community, rising from 2-3 per week to 2-3 per day. Funerals ...
Suddenly our world had changed. Our ideas of how we would like to have our life end or Birthing into Spirit is also changing! It has become a time when thousands are dying alone. We must find away to transition without the ones we love near us. Looking for people to give their ideas on how to do this thanks !!! Sally H. USA
April Death Cafe Online Write up
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on April 28, 2020, 8:14 a.m.
For our April Death Café Iowa we took the plunge and went virtual with a Zoom meeting! Buffy Peters from the Bereavement Professionals Group facilitated the group. In total there were 5 people in attendance, 1 man and 4 women, and participants ranged in ages and professions. One exciting addition was a member from California that was a Death Doula! Several interesting topics were brought forward for discussion.
Topics included:
Death doulas
Obituaries and what we would or would not want to include in ours. One member commented “how do you fit a big life into a little obit?” Another member shared that she wrote two for her ...
14 of us came together for our second virtual meeting of the Colliers Wood Death Café. We again had an international attendance and were joined by people calling from around the UK, Ireland, and the US.
A few people made their debut at a Death Café, and several regulars from the physical CWDC meetings also joined the Zoom call.
At the beginning of our meeting we acknowledged the impact Covid-19 is having on us as individuals, and as a global community, and how much more proximate death and dying feel to be amidst the current pandemic.
Themes to emerge from our discussion:
Our impermanence being powerfully highlighted by ...
This is the summary I emailed to my group. It has been edited with updates and deletions. Hello everyone, I hope you are staying well, physically and mentally. Thank you to those who joined the conversations during the April 8th Death Café – Hillsborough (DC-H) – our first Zoom call! It went very well and, as usual, we learned new things! Using Zoom changed our dynamic yet it also allowed three new people to join us, including from Greensboro and Pittsboro! We are grateful for UMC allowing us to use their Zoom account (versus their “little house” where we normally meet in person). If you have not yet sent a ...
Tucson Friendly & Fearless Death Cafe Write up
Posted by TucsonFFDeathCafe on April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
This was our 3rd Virtual Cafe. For the first time since this pandemic began, 2 attendees reported family members or friends who have died. So very challenging and sad for all. I'll speak for everyone and say that the value of the Cafe conversation is immeasurable. To say what is true and real for each of us, look around, and be held in the moment by others is so preciously human. Some paraphrased comments: "struggling with the notion of not-being...trying to be familiar with living and death at the same time...being here (at cafe) makes me feel comfortable...you can't know, yet the paradox ...
Death Cafe
Evaluation Summary
Evaluations: 8 submitted
Attendees: 1 facilitator, 24 attendees
It has taken me much longer than usual to write up our Death Cafe from January. Partly because I have been recovering from surgery, and also partly because of what is happening around the world and how this is impacting our work and every aspect of life.
Now more than ever, it feels so much more vital to have conversations about life and death. And in a world where we seem to be so restricted in how we live our lives, questions about how we make the most of this precious life that we have under ...
There were 27 of us present for most of our first virtual Death Café hosted on Zoom!
Many of us had not attended a Death Café before. Some had been meaning to for a long time, but found that timings and journeys were hard to manage alongside ‘normal’ life. The extraordinary circumstances created by Covid-19 brought us together…
I began the meeting by giving a brief history of the Death Café movement, and outlining the proposed format for the discussion before we all checked-in. We were joined by people calling from the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Hungary, Washington DC, and Orlando FL.
On the call were several End of ...
Death Cafe Erie PA Write up
Posted by RevCharlieErie on March 21, 2020, 8:54 p.m.
What an odd, though not happy coincidence. Pennsylvania churches were closing down do to COVID-19 worries. So the event did not occur.
Planning to reschedule for April 11, but this may have to be postponed further.
We had to cancel this Death Cafe die to COVID19. And it would have been such a much needed, lively discussion!! We look forward to our next!!
Hello Death Positive People! Thank you to those who joined the conversations at the March 11th Death Café – Hillsborough (DC-H). We enjoyed wonderful food too – a big “Thank You” to the folks who helped clean up! My apologies this summary took a few days longer than anticipated. Supporting my friends (and creating Legacy projects with them) whose 25-year-old daughter was killed last week in a car accident took priority. Information about the next DC-H, plus others in our area, follows a key-points summary of our 3/11 meeting. Please bear in mind that some links have been shared before but are provided again due to (thankfully) new people ...
Charlotte Death Cafe Write up
Posted by Gaye Dimmick on March 17, 2020, 2:48 p.m.
In the spirit of wellness and safety,The Charlotte Death Cafe has been canceled for March 18th.
Hope to see you next month and stay safe out there!