Talking about death over tea and cake - an in-person Death Café in February 2025 at Granton:hub
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Death Cafe
The Death Café is a group-directed meeting where people can come to talk about death.
Talking about death is not something that we can all do with our families and friends, and yet it is something which is so often on our minds.
At the Death Café, there is an emphasis on listening and sharing, and the focus is that life is finite and we want to talk about that. We all have interests and concerns about bereavement, loss, grief or dying, especially at this time when we are still dealing with the Coronavirus, climate change, and war.
Previous participants described the event as "healthy", and said that they were "grateful for the interconnection" and "hopeful" afterwards.
“The goal of the movement is to enable people to share their fears and hopes in a fashion which does not have to treat death as a taboo – that is, as something that needs to be addressed through euphemisms or abandoned in silence.”
Maddie Denton, Reflections of the Self: Death Cafe and the Search for Personal Meaning (An exploration of death in modern society).
For more information about the Death Cafe movement, see this website
Please note that this Death Cafe will be accessible, respectful and confidential. There is no set agenda, no objective or theme. It is not a grief support group nor a counselling session. There is no intention by the organisers to lead participants to any conclusions, buy any products or take any course of action. Death Cafes are not religious, and are always ‘not for profit’ events.
“Saturday's death cafe was a real success and I hope you do more of the same. Very revealing and thought provoking.“
MY who attended a previous Death Cafe organised by Tamsin
Organisers:
Tamsin Grainger is a complementary therapy practitioner, session leader, and the author of Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice (Singing Dragon Press).
Links to related blogs:
Other Edinburgh Death Cafes:
At the Heart of Newhaven on Saturdays, 10am to 12noon on 25th January 2025, 22nd March, 31st May, 26th July, 20th September. Run by Bob Parker