Latest Death Cafe News
New Blog post: Seasons Greetings
Posted by Karsten Speckin on Dec. 29, 2024, 8:01 a.m.
Dear Deathcafe Community,
we hope you had a nice Chitstmas and we wish all the best for New Year!
The photo shows the flower bowl on the grave of my beloved father. With fir branch with christmas decoration and winterflowers. inthe foreground you can see a candle light-.
With Ruth Debra and Thom Bettinger
May 1, 2025, 2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (Pacific )
This Death Cafe is sponsored by Planning Ahead for LGBTQ Seniors (PALS), and is geared primarily to members of the LGBTQ community and allies.
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With Ka Yun Cheng
April 28, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (PST)
Join local facilitators in the Program Room at the Sunnyvale Public Library for a discussion of death over tea and snacks.
At a Death Cafe, people - often strangers - gather to ...
With Ann Arbor Death Cafe team
April 19, 2025, 11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. (Eastern US)
The Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA) Death Cafe was founded in November 2012 by Merilynne Rush and has been meeting monthly since then. In Sept 2024 we moved the online meetings ...
With Ann Arbor Death Cafe team
May 3, 2025, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. (Eastern US)
The Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA) Death Cafe was founded in November 2012 by Merilynne Rush and has been meeting monthly since then. In Sept 2024 we moved the online meetings ...
With Britna Savarese
April 29, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Central)
Our aim is to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives.
Please join us for these open, inclusive, agenda-free discussions around death and ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Iowa
Posted by DeathCafeIowa on Dec. 19, 2024, 11:47 a.m.
Our most recent Death Café was held December 17th and had 4 people in attendance. We touched on a handful of topics, beginning with alternatives for final disposition. This included having one’s cremated remains turned into a reef ball (a concrete structure that’s used to bury cremated remains in the ocean), having them sent to outer space in a rocket, and various other places and spaces one can use to store and scatter cremated remains. We also touched on the concept of making a preplan and the benefits that come from doing so. We ended the conversation with the importance of talking to children about ...
Death Cafe: Death Cafe Lansing (virtual) EST
Posted by Death Cafe Lansing on Dec. 15, 2024, 3:34 p.m.
With Megan Miller & Andi Earl
May 3, 2025, 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (Eastern)
Join us for virtual Death Cafe Lansing! We will be meeting via video call (Zoom) - Just click this link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2309008661
(Meeting password: 552977 ...
Death Cafe write up: Austin Death Cafe: Conversations on Change, Loss, and Renewal
Posted by Lauren Terry on Dec. 14, 2024, 1:59 a.m.
Come together for an evening of open dialogue and reflection at SquareRüt Kava Bar, a safe third space where connection and understanding thrive. This Death Cafe invites you to explore universal themes of change, loss, grief, and renewal in a supportive and welcoming space.
This gathering is hosted by:
✨ @emotion.l.contagion (Lauren) – A Trauma-Informed Reiki Master Practitioner offering a grounded and compassionate perspective.
With Klara McMurray
April 23, 2025, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Melbourne)
Death Cafe: Thursday Evening Death Cafe Portland, OR
Posted by nomenoyou1 on Dec. 9, 2024, 10:30 a.m.
With City of Roses Death Cafe
May 8, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (PST)
A Death Cafe is an open and respectful conversation about the topic of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. We will introduce ourselves, including what brought each of us ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Park Ridge Qld Australia
Posted by Kate Leotta on Dec. 6, 2024, 2:16 a.m.
A small gathering but full of rich discussion that went on for sometime.
After attendees dove into a lucky dip of icebreaker questions in the living, dying, death space, conversation flowed:
Cremation/Body Disposition in Japanese, Philippine and other cultures.
Being laid to rest on country or other ancestral lands.
The pros and cons of VAD, also organ donation.
The issues with prolonging life, medical models, funeral models.
Death is a human event not just a medical and profit driven one.
Talk of living wakes, living to the full after a terminal diagnosis, dying at home, vigils, rituals, home funerals.
Having choice and control for dying and death ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Whangarei
Posted by Jo Moselen on Dec. 4, 2024, 2:53 p.m.
We were a small group of three plus the two organisers, this made for a relaxed and intimate conversation which included planning for a funeral, changes to the assisted dying bill, fear around dying, embalming, colonisation and funeral practices. The attendees were all people who had been to Death Cafes before.
The feedback was encouraging - one comment being "it feels so freeing each time to talk about death"
The venue, a room in the local library worked well.
Death Cafe write up: Knaresborough Death Cafe
Posted by Richard Cyster on Dec. 3, 2024, 3:27 a.m.
This is the first Death Cafe I've organoised so I was a little nervous. However, I needn't have worried. Seven people turned up, including two who'd seen it advertised on the Death Cafe website. We had a wide-ranging conversation over tea/coffee (and cake!) which encompassed a range of subjects including visits to Dignitas, funerals, cremation or burial and the possibility of donating your body to medical science. We will meet again at the end of January 2025.
With Julie Dillon
May 9, 2025, 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. (EST)