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Funeral celebrant Hannah Todd runs monthly death cafes to break down a taboo and help the grieving.
A Death Cafe is a scheduled non-profit get-together (called "social franchises" by the organizers) for the purpose of talking about death over food and drink, usually tea and cake. The idea originates with the Swiss sociologist and anthropologist Bernard Crettaz , who organized the first café mortel in 2004.
At one recent death cafe, Lui recalled, there were 30 people, “and that was a little too much.” Michael Allison, 62, laughs a little while sharing with the group of participants in the death cafe.
Unless, of course, you're librarian Andrea Castillo and have led discussions at the local Death Cafe. "Talking about birth control doesn't make you pregnant, and talking about death doesn't make ...
Sautet made the discussions seem fun and exciting. The concept was to bring people together in a public friendly forum where they could discuss ideas. A café tended to have this type of atmosphere where people were relaxed drinking coffee and carrying on conversations. This concept ultimately developed into the Café Philosophique that he founded.
In mainland China and Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, the number 4 is often associated with death because the sound of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words for four and death are similar (for example, the sound sì in Chinese is the Sino-Korean number 4 (四), whereas sǐ is the word for death (死), and in Japanese "shi" is the number 4, whereas ...
“Moral injury is a touchy topic, and for a long time [mental health care] providers have been nervous about addressing it because they felt inexperienced or they felt it was a religious issue,” said Amy Amidon, a staff psychologist at the San Diego Naval Medical Center who oversees its moral injury/moral repair therapy group.
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