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Press: Death Cafes Encourage People to Embrace Life
Posted by BuffaloDeathCafe on Dec. 29, 2014, 7:58 a.m.
I am the author of this article and attended several five sessions of the Buffalo Death Cafe. This relflects my experience of the group. It was facilitated by Andre Toth.
Mara Koven-Gelman
Buffalo News: http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/my-view/mara-koven-gelman-death-cafes-encourage-people-to-embrace-life-20141229
Death Cafe write up: Buffalo Death Cafe
Posted by BuffaloDeathCafe on Nov. 22, 2014, 2:13 p.m. 3 comments
What 52-year-old do you know looks forward to a weekly chat group held in Amherst, New York called the “Death Café?” Before one thinks I’m fatalistic or death-obsessed, let’s do the numbers.
We all are born and we all die. We live in an aging society and region where over 16% of Erie County and almost 22% of Amherst is over 65 years old. I figured there would be no shortage of death and dying talk. Conversation about death is not unique to West New York - currently, there are over 1300 Death Cafés in 26 counties - these are registered although I suspect there are more ...
With Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo
Dec. 5, 2014, 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (EST)
free
For next session, please contact Adult Services Coordinator Karla Wiseman at
kwiseman@jccbuffalo.org or 716 204-2257