Category: Death Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 The room looked beautiful as the morning rays brought light and warmth to the space in readiness for the Death Cafe. Six wooden tables beamed a splash of Spring colour from the freshly cut golden wattle and mauve lavender sprigs in recycled port glasses. A bottle of chilled water, 4 glasses, a…

JUNE 7, 2016 Yesterday, on a rainy winter Sunday afternoon, I hosted my fourth Death Café. This time it was in D&M Bakery in Angaston; an historic wine producing town nestled in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. Warmed by the fire, hot drinks and platters of freshly baked sweet treats, 18 of us came together…

MAY 4, 2015 There were lots of laughs at our 3rd Death Café. Twenty five of us came together to have a cuppa, cake and conversation about death. Contrary to what people may think, a Death Café is a space where you talk about death to become more engaged with life. Such is the paradox…

OCTOBER 30, 2014 “People study for weeks for a birth. Why not study for a death?” So says the opening line from the beautiful little-known Australian book, Dying to know: Bringing death to life. We are alarmingly disconnected from death in our Western secular culture. Dying to Know Day (D2KD) is an annual day of…

JUNE 6, 2014 On a sunny Sunday autumnal afternoon; 12 of us experienced our first Death Café. The aptly named “Conversations Café” in Gawler, South Australia, provided the nurturing space for our group-directed conversation about Death. With warming drinks and a yummy home-made treat from Mignon within reach, we were ready to begin. As the…