The Death Café was created to be a place for people to get together and talk about death with no agenda set in place. At a typical Death Café meeting, people who are often strangers get in groups with a facilitator to eat cookies, drink tea and then talk about death.
It isn't to be seen as a counseling session or a bereavement support group, but rather a discussion group about death. The Death Café began in the United Kingdom in September 2011 and has since spread into the United States and received attention from media such as the New York Times and USA Today.
Our society is often afraid of death and dying and makes attempts to avoid it altogether. The objective of a Death Café is to create an awareness and form an open space to talk about death.
Longwood’s first Death Café will be held on Tuesday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the Nance Room. All students and faculty are encouraged to join the conversation about death.
To RSVP for the event, people can email Shelley Sheets at shelley.sheets@live.longwood.edu.
