The mission statement of the Death Café movement is “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their finite lives”. “There has certainly been a piqued interest from individuals who previously weren’t involved or didn’t know about Death Cafés, because death has been so much more present in their daily lives,” Jools says. Liam McCarthy is a funeral celebrant from Cork, and regularly attends Death Cafés to better inform his work. Meanwhile, Jim Kirkpatrick tunes in to Death Cafés all over the world from his home in the US. his He chooses to attend Galway’s Death Café because of family ties to Ireland, and his appreciation for how the Irish deal with death.

Source: Irish Independent July 05, 2021 13:18 UTC