Death Café, Albany, California
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Death Cafés offer the opportunity to discuss death and dying in a confidential and caring environment.
About this event
Death Café
Sponsored by Jewish Gateways
Death Cafés offer the opportunity to meet in a confidential, safe, and caring environment to discuss death and dying. Thoughts, feelings, and experiences are all relevant. We welcome participants of any background, religion, culture, or belief.
The Death Café model, followed all over the world, is no cost with no pre-formulated agenda. Please note that this is not a grief support or counseling group, although grief can certainly be discussed. Relevant additional resources will be offered upon request.
Many report that participating in Death Cafés reduces their anxiety about death and dying (their own or their loved ones’), which can enhance the way we live in the present. Most people leave feeling connected and uplifted.
Our Death Café meets on the 4th Sunday of each month from 4:00-5:30pm, Pacific Time.
About Co-hosts Lori Goldwyn and Jim Kirkpatrick
Lori and Jim are experienced Death Café participants who have brought Death Café to the East Bay Area in hopes that our families, friends, and communities will find it as beneficial as we have.
Lori has worked as an End-of-Life Doula since 2016 and is affiliated with the Bay Area End-of-Life Doula Alliance.
Jim is a retired Marriage and Family Therapist with over 40 years of experience. He now volunteers with Sutter Hospice, Berkeley Free Clinic, and Berkeley NEED. He and his family are members of the Jewish Gateways community.
This event is sponsored by Jewish Gateways, which provides administrative and Zoom support.