Welcome to Death Cafe
A Death Cafe is an event where people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death.
At a Death Cafe people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Our aim is
Support Death Cafe
Running Death Cafe is great fun but does take a lot of time. If you value this work please support us on Patreon.
Talking about death
A Death Cafe is an agenda free discussion about death. So far we've held 24071 Death Cafes.
ListingsTo date we've held 24071 Death Cafes. These never involve agendas, advertising or set conclusions. Interesting conversations are guaranteed!
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Host a Death Cafe
People who adopt the model set out in our guide are welcome to set up their own Death Cafes. So far we've held Death Cafes in 97 countries.
Our guide
Support Death Cafe
Running Death Cafe is great fun but does take time and resources. If you value this work please support us on Patreon.
Recent posts
Death Cafe: Death Cafe Deep South - South Africa
Posted by DeathCafeDeepSouth on June 30, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
With Dialina and Mary
July 6, 2026, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GMT+2)
Accepts donations
Please join us for our next meeting at Fish Hoek Library Hall. Entrance is as if you were coming to the Library.
We will provide tea (Ceylon, Rooibos), coffee (filter ...
With Linda Vale
July 10, 2026, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Central standard)
Free
We gather first, then split into groups to share. After a bit we'll rejoin each other in a larger group and share thoughts and highlights from the smaller group ...
With end-of-life-doulas, and hospice nurses & volunteers
July 2, 2026, 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time)
Free
With Tempestori
July 17, 2026, 7.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (CDT)
Accepts donations
One hour doesn't seem like a lot of time to spend with the heavy topics of death and dying.
It is my hope that, by holding space regularly, we ...
Death Cafe: July Saturday Tacoma Death Cafe
Posted by Amanda C and Debbie P on June 24, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
With Amanda and Debbie
July 11, 2026, 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. (Pacific)
Accepts donations
When her father died, she was young and suddenly responsible for decisions no one had prepared her for. There were no written wishes, no plans, and no space to grieve ...
Death Cafe: Death Cafe Lansing (virtual) EST
Posted by Death Cafe Lansing on June 23, 2026, 10:39 a.m.
With Megan Miller & Andi Earl
July 8, 2026, 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (Eastern)
Accepts donations
Join us for virtual Death Cafe Lansing! We will be meeting via video call (Zoom) - Just click this link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2309008661
(Password: 552977)
Our ...
Death Cafe: Death Cafe Lansing (virtual) EST
Posted by Death Cafe Lansing on June 23, 2026, 10:37 a.m.
With Megan Miller & Andi Earl
July 4, 2026, 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. (Eastern)
Accepts donations
Join us for virtual Death Cafe Lansing! We will be meeting via video call (Zoom) - Just click this link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2309008661
(Meeting password: 552977 ...
With Sarah and Seth
July 11, 2026, 10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. (pacific)
Accepts donations
With Susan Barsky Reid and Diane Carbery
July 6, 2026, 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (BST)
Accepts donations
Buy a drink from Storyhouse Kitchen (or bring your own) and come up to the meeting room where there will be interesting conversation laughter and possibly teaars and of course ...
With Conner Harrington and Lynda Sorensen
July 6, 2026, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Pacific)
Accepts donations
Come join us at the Shelton McMurphy-Johnson House for a lively discussion about death and dying! Nicknamed the "Castle on the Hill," the SMJ House is a historic landmark that ...
With Jane Westbrook
July 4, 2026, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (Mountain)
Accepts donations
We do our conversation in one big circle, so everyone hears the same information and ideas.
With Padmalila
Nov. 15, 2026, 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. (BST)
Accepts donations
As a society, we rarely discuss death, even though the inevitability of death is the only thing we can predict in life. A Death Cafe is a useful forum for ...
With Joe Winters
July 8, 2026, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (EST)
Accepts donations
I’m running Death Café because I believe conversations about death should not only happen during a crisis. In my work with families at Rose Hill Memorial Park, I’ve ...
With Nan VanSandt
July 7, 2026, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (PDT)
Free
Facing our mortality has a way of bringing out our authentic selves.
The way we each think about death is deeply personal… yet it is also a universal, human experience ...
With Neil Andrews
July 9, 2026, 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (eastern)
Free