Death Cafe - A Global Phenomenon Doing Death
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- Philosophy
"I think it's going back to impermanence, understanding that one day you are not going to be here. How can you change what you are going to do today, that's going to impact you?”
Jools Barsky
How do you create something that fundamentally changes the way we talk about death, dying, and living? Death Café is a place where people can get together to eat cake, have tea, and discuss death. After becoming inspired by the Swiss sociologist Bernard Crettaz, who created Café Mortels, Jon Underwood founded Death Café in 2011 with a view to increase our awareness of death to make the most of our finite lives. From it’s humble beginning there are now 11,577 death cafes in 74 countries. Jon died suddenly in 2017 at the age of 44. Host Amanda Blainey talks to Jon’s sister Jools Barsky and his Mum Susan Barsky Reid about creating a global movement and Jon’s death.
We talk about
Living with being present and impermanence
The magic of death café and why its effect is so powerful
What happened at the first Death Café.
The Dalai Lama envisaging his death and dying every day
Buddhist practice
How Jool's cat's death prepared them for using Buddhist rituals after Jon died
Grieving for Jon and his funeral
Preparing for death as we do with birth
The future of Death Cafe
Podcast references
Jamyang Buddhist centre
Menopause & cancer cafe
Death over dinner
Songs:
The Martian - Sex in Zero Gravity,
Sugar Ray - Someday
Links
https://www.patreon.com/deathcafe
https://deathcafe.com/
https://jamyang.co.uk/
http://artofdyingmagazine.com/
"I think it's going back to impermanence, understanding that one day you are not going to be here. How can you change what you are going to do today, that's going to impact you?”
Jools Barsky
How do you create something that fundamentally changes the way we talk about death, dying, and living? Death Café is a place where people can get together to eat cake, have tea, and discuss death. After becoming inspired by the Swiss sociologist Bernard Crettaz, who created Café Mortels, Jon Underwood founded Death Café in 2011 with a view to increase our awareness of death to make the most of our finite lives. From it’s humble beginning there are now 11,577 death cafes in 74 countries. Jon died suddenly in 2017 at the age of 44. Host Amanda Blainey talks to Jon’s sister Jools Barsky and his Mum Susan Barsky Reid about creating a global movement and Jon’s death.
We talk about
Living with being present and impermanence
The magic of death café and why its effect is so powerful
What happened at the first Death Café.
The Dalai Lama envisaging his death and dying every day
Buddhist practice
How Jool's cat's death prepared them for using Buddhist rituals after Jon died
Grieving for Jon and his funeral
Preparing for death as we do with birth
The future of Death Cafe
Podcast references
Jamyang Buddhist centre
Menopause & cancer cafe
Death over dinner
Songs:
The Martian - Sex in Zero Gravity,
Sugar Ray - Someday
Links
https://www.patreon.com/deathcafe
https://deathcafe.com/
https://jamyang.co.uk/
http://artofdyingmagazine.com/