Roundtable Death Café feat. Gail Rubin, Amy Cunningham, and Harvey Newman – August 2022 (Read More)

 

Welcome to the latest session of the Completed Life Initiative’s Roundtable Death Café.

This session features three guest panelists with extensive experience in Death Cafés and end-of-life work. The facilitators helped guide the discussion and led us into the Death Café portion of the event. Visit Gail Rubin’s website – AGoodGoodbye.com Follow Amy Cunningham on Facebook and Instagram – @FittingTributeFunerals Visit Harvey Newman’s Death Café NYC group – meetup.com/death-cafe-new-york-city We would also like to thank Reimagine End of Life for co-hosting this event on their summer calendar. For more events through Reimagine, please visit their website – letsreimagine.org If you would like to join the next session of the Roundtable Death Café live, including participating in an actual Death Café, visit the Completed Life Initiative’s events page for registration as it becomes available – completedlife.org/events The first part of this event, which is what is presented in this video, is an open forum for panelists to deconstruct the stigma surrounding death and dying. Our panelists discussed how death cafés can destigmatize the subject of death through local, small group connections; how these events can advance empathy and compassion towards grief and end-of-life suffering; and how individuals and organizations, on both a local and national scale, can further promote #deathpositivity. A Death Café is a participant-led discussion of death with no set agenda, objectives, or themes. The model is based on a similar format from Europe that has since been adapted and popularized in the United States. Death Cafés can occur online or in-person and they often have tea and snacks, but their free-flowing nature lends them to be adapted even further, which is what we have done. (Originally recorded on August 31st, 2022)