Free event helps people talk about mortality with tea
and cake
The second Death Café in Albuquerque will
be held Wednesday, November 7 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. At this free,
RSVP-only event, people come together in a relaxed, confidential and safe
setting to discuss mortality, drink tea (or your favorite beverage) and eat
delicious cake or cookies. The objective of Death Café is “To increase awareness of
death with a view toward helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.”
The Death Café concept started in England,
where “stiff-upper-lip” Brits have an especially hard time talking about death.
Founder Jon Underwood modeled it on the café
mortel created by Swiss sociologist Bernard Crettaz. Underwood held his
first Death Café event September 2011 in London. Hospice volunteer and
thanatologist Lizzy Miles coordinated the first U.S. Death Café held in
Columbus, Ohio July 2012. The first Death Café west of the Mississippi was held
in Albuquerque on September 30, 2012.
The Death Café is organized by Gail Rubin,
author of A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to
Die. As The Doyenne of Death™, she is a death educator who uses funny films
to help start serious funeral planning conversations, a Certified Funeral Celebrant
and a blogger. Her blog is called The Family Plot (http://TheFamilyPlot.wordpress.com).
When: Wednesday, November 5, 2012, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Where: Disclosed only to registered participants.
How
to Register: To participate, email a note to Gail@AGoodGoodbye.com
with your name, email, phone, city, state and how you heard about the event.
She’ll send the location for this Death Café event directly.
The name sounds a little creepy to me. I am a little curious, though, what kind of design shop fitters would put together for a cafe with that name.
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