Death Cafes

By Seattle Mag May 5, 2014

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!–paging_filter–pIt’s a topic that brings anxiety and trepidation for many: Death. But Bastyr University is tackling it head on, inviting the community to discuss everything morbid at its a href=”http://www.bastyr.edu/civicrm/event/info?id=1053reset=1“Death Cafes/a, where attendees “drink tea, eat cake and talk about death,” according to Bastyr, in two-hour evening sessions that began in April and continue through fall. Bastyr is joining a movement that began in the U.K. and has since spread around the world and nationwide, run by volunteers and intended to take a lighthearted approach in order to get people comfortable talking about a difficult subject. The group’s a href=”https://www.facebook.com/deathcafe“Facebook page /acontinues the conversation online./p

 

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