For almost two hours, close to 50 students gathered in Parkes Hall room and talked about death over chocolate cupcakes. The conversations, which took place in small groups, touched on pre-death plans, ...

The clock is ticking. I’m sitting with seven other people in a room in the Kentish Town Community Centre – a place that, despite living in the area for four years, I hadn’t known existed until about ...

Lizzy Miles, a hospice volunteer and social worker, who held the first U.S. Death Cafe in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo courtesy of deathcafe.com) Death Cafe is a pop-up event that believes in discussing ...

Walking into the low-lit Braun Room of Harvard Divinity School on a rainy and altogether miserable Wednesday night to attend my first Death Cafe, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I’d done my ...