Once a month, in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, people gather to eat cake and discuss death. Welcome to the Death Cafe.
At these mortal meetings, people with a range of interests in the subject of death come together to discuss “the end of life experience in any of its forms”, wrote Emma Freud in The Times. The groups are being seen as a part of the “death positive” movement.
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