Three cafes will be run around the Bega Valley to help to demystify death and provide a informative and comfortable space to discuss the subject.
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People often find comfort in coming together to talk about death and dying.
In a Death Cafe there is no agenda or theme; the group simply directs the discussion in a cafe style setting with tea/coffee and cake.
Conversations can be highly personal or quite general and the aim is to demystify death.
Death Cafes have become a worldwide phenomenon since 2004. Founder Jon Underwood became aware of the need to take some of the taboo out of mortality by allowing a safe space for conversations about death.
“Death” is often the elephant in the room when people have life-threatening illnesses.
The pressure to remain positive can be extremely traumatic to both the patient and the family.
Opening up conversations by making death an everyday subject in life is not only a relief for those who are ill, but to all of us considering our own mortality.
Most of us have not considered questions such as how much medical treatment we would like if we were dying, who we would want making decisions for us or how we would like our funeral to be.
The Bega Valley Home Hospice Group is holding Death Cafes in three venues across the Bega Valley on May 28:
- Bega CWA, 31 Church St, Bega, 10am to 11.30am;
- Tura Marrang Library, Tura Beach Drive, 2pm to 3.30pm; and
- Bermagui CWA, 10 Curruna St, 10.30am to 12noon.