Death happens. Let’s talk about it! Death Café is a space for coming together with your fellow mortals to discuss our shared fate and to enjoy some delicious cake while we’re at it. This group will facilitate open, informal conversations about death and dying; it is not intended to provide grief counseling or end-of-life planning education. If you are a person who is eventually going to die, please join us to ponder the end that awaits us all. Death Café meets the fourth Saturday of each month.
A Death Café is a free, volunteer-led gathering organized to counter the fear and discomfort surrounding the subject of death. The first Death Café was held in 2011 in the East London basement of Jon Underwood, who was inspired by the death-positive work of Swiss sociologist Bernard Cretz. Since then, thousands of Death Cafés have been hosted in over 90 countries around the world. You can read more about the Death Café movement at https://deathcafe.com.
Death Café is led by PFL Reference Librarian Aurora. When not working behind the desk, Aurora volunteers with a local hospice organization and writes about mortality, among other things. She plans to begin training as a death doula in the spring of 2025. Aurora’s wardrobe has been described as “funereal.”
