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Last orders at the Death Café

An attempt to break the taboo on mortality with the aid of coffee and biscuits

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

The coffee and walnut cake was excellent. As was the chocolate cake, and the tea and biscuits. The conversation was wonderful too. We talked about death.

We were here, we dozen or so people in a meeting room in a small Suffolk market town on a sunny June evening, to do something British people never do: hold a conversation about the fact that we will all, in the end, die.

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