Next Week is Dying Matters Week, an annual event which looks to remove the stigma from death and dying and open up conversations. Here in Birmingham Brum YODO organise A Matter of Life and Death Festival to mark the occasion.
We have an event taking place in the cemetery lodge at Brandwood End as part of the festival.
We are hosting a Death Cafe.
At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. The objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.
Death Cafe May 10th 5pm til 7pm
Free Session
Come to a safe space where people talk about anything and everything to do with death. Everyone welcome regardless of age, religion, non religion, gender or background.
Free Session
Come to a safe space where people talk about anything and everything to do with death. Everyone welcome regardless of age, religion, non religion, gender or background.
email josie.wall@birmingham.gov.uk to come