January Death Cafe
A write up of Death Cafe Iowa
For January’s Death Café Iowa we met at a new location this month. The group met at Plymouth Place on Ingersoll. Buffy Peters and Becca Suvalsky (members of the Young Bereavement Professionals Group) facilitated the group. We had11 people in attendance, 4 men and 7 women, and participants ranged in ages and professions.
We had several new group members in attendance. Introductions focused on what brought the new and returning group members to death café. The overall consensus was curiosity. Several topics were brought forward for discussion during this month’s death café. Topics such as celebration of life services, death with dignity act, the Swedish death cleaning method, hospice & palliative care, death photography, quicken will maker, and green burials. Several group members were able to provide insight into these topics and personal experiences. January’s death café was a great start to the New Year.