How death cafes celebrate life In early August, Christina Werner, a retired operating room nurse, met up with a close friend for a walk through the redwoods in Marin County.

The death cafe can sometimes feel like group therapy. But Lui makes no claims to being a therapist. “I think in a good way, we’re not therapists,” she told me.

Death cafes are informal meetups where people openly discuss death and mortality in a relaxed setting. They are hosted by a facilitator, like Nancy Macke, certified end-of-life doula based in the ...

Death cafes, inspired by Swiss sociologist and widower Bernard Crettaz, are held across the world, according to a British organization that embraces the meetups.

Before lockdown, "death cafes" were a unique space offering complete strangers the opportunity to meet and speak openly about the often tricky topic of dying. A subject many people find ...

I had heard somewhere of a Dr. Bernard Crettaz, a Swiss sociologist who, in 2004, introduced a model of what a Death Cafe could be. As I was inspired, so was a man named Jon Underwood from the ...

The Death Cafe founder, Underwood, did not have time to plan his death, either. He died in 2017 at just 44 years old. It was unexpected and sudden, a brain hemorrhage caused by undiagnosed leukemia.

The Death Cafe movement is exploding, with more than 15,000 groups around the world, including one in Easton, meeting regularly to discuss the end. Skip to content. All Sections.

And these Death Cafes are popping up everywhere – including here in Kennebunkport. The town’s public health department hosted its first one at the Louis T. Graves Memorial Library on Wednesday ...