Latest Death Cafe News
With Sarah Hitman
April 14, 2025, 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (Mountain)
Like all Death Cafes, we follow TWO basic rules..... 1. No agenda and 2. No exchange of money. These distinct boundaries create a safe and warm space for so much ...
With Sarah Hitman
April 13, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (Mountain)
Like all Death Cafes, we follow TWO basic rules..... 1. No agenda and 2. No exchange of money. These distinct boundaries create a safe and warm space for so much ...
Death Cafe write up: Virtual Death Cafe Albany, CA USA PST
Posted by JimKirkpatrick on Jan. 10, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
We came from London, NE and SE USA and CA. Flow of sharing of our lives and legacy, grieving, loving, random acts of kindness and the rippling effect of our kindness. All the while deep listening and space for silent contemplation.
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe
Posted by ayalynn on Jan. 9, 2025, 7:21 p.m.
Death Cafe write up: City of Roses Death Cafe Portland OR
Posted by nomenoyou1 on Jan. 7, 2025, 3:42 p.m.
Our final City of Roses Death Cafe of 2024 had 19 participants divided between three tables.
One table discussed the challenges of living with a terminal cancer diagnosis including deciding whether the benefits of life extending maintenance chemotherapy outweighed the physical consequences (quantity or quality of life?), the difficulty of discussing one's diagnosis and its implications with family and friends, and responding to hurtful, but well-intentioned responses ("I had a friend who had that cancer and they . . . ") We also discussed living with grief when a sibling dies. Stephen Jenkinson's Die Wise was came up more than once.
Another table’s discussion centered a lot about feelings ...
New Blog post: The Art of Dying Well.
Posted by zeland2645 on Jan. 6, 2025, 12:37 a.m.
"We are born to die. This inevitable fact could lead to fatalism, although, more often, we simply fall into denial. We avoid thinking about death and stigmatize it as the greatest evil.
If this world is all we have, then death would be the greatest evil, although life itself would become futile, a temporary illusion — grasping pleasure as it slips through our fingers.
For a Christian, however, we are born to live. The inevitability of ...
With Sarah Roberts and Elizabeth DeTienne
April 8, 2025, 5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. (Mountain )
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe North Canterbury
Posted by Death Cafe North Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand on Jan. 2, 2025, 8:02 p.m.
Today was a small group of 4, and no co-facilitator – I was flying solo! I was pleased to see a few people who returned for more Death Café as we delved deeper into some familiar topics such as how to handle grief and the compounding grief of dealing with the health system. It was a tender chat and a memorable meeting, and the last of 2024.
Death Café dates for 2025:
Kaiapoi:
February 16th
May 18th
September 21st
Rangiora:
March 23rd
June 29th
October 26th
Amberley
April 27th
July 20th
November 23rd
Stay well, Liz
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-.
Death Cafe: Greater Monadnock Region Death Cafe @ HCS
Posted by Nfrazier4 on Dec. 27, 2024, 7:20 p.m.
With Nada Frazier, The Sacred Servant
April 8, 2025, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (United States - ET)
What you can expect at Death Cafe' of Northeast Florida:
1. We gather VIRTUALLY via ZOOM with open hearts, open minds, and respect for all with no specific agenda at ...
With Hamilton's Academy of Grief and Loss
April 15, 2025, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (Central)
Death Cafe Iowa has been a monthly gathering since October 2015. This Death Cafe went virtual with the pandemic and has stayed so that people from anywhere can join for ...
With Ann Arbor Death Cafe team
April 5, 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 ...
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: New York Public Library Death Cafe
Posted by Death Cafe at New York Public Library on Dec. 16, 2024, 11:28 a.m.
With New York Public Library ( Marianna and Lauren)
April 12, 2025, 3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (Eastern )
Rather than depressing or morbid, talking about death to be a liberating and a life-affirming experience. Rest assured, that you will not be judged, analyzed, categorized, evaluated, or sold a ...
Death Cafe: Atlanta Death Cafe EOL 101 ~ Lake Claire Community Land Trust
Posted by Denise Johnson on Dec. 15, 2024, 9:18 p.m.
With Denise Johnson
April 13, 2025, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (EST)
Over the past four years, I have attended dozens of Death Cafes and I am always in awe of how the simple concept of coffee, cake, and conversation provides so ...