Death Cafe

Join us at our wonderful Death Cafe, where people will come together to eat cake, drink tea and discuss all things death and dying.

At a Death Cafe the topics to be discussed are determined during the event itself by those taking part. This means there is no pre-set agenda. It can be helpful to think of it as an informal and open discussion group. This means that anything you would like to share or talk about in relation to death can be brought to the table.

It’s also important to remember that a Death Cafe is not a grief support or counselling session.

The Death Cafe is being hosted and facilitated by local death educator: Katy Vigurs.

Katy and the team at 17nineteen look forward to welcoming you to this Sunderland-based Death Cafe.

It is free to attend - but donations on the day are welcome.

Dr. Katy Vigurs is an academic turned humanist funeral celebrant and co-founder of Dead Good. Dead Good is a social enterprise based in Sunderland that offers the planning of alternative funerals & memorial events, imaginative death education & training, and creative legacy projects. www.deadgood.org @deadgoodlegacies

The Death Cafe model was developed in 2010 by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid, based on the ideas of Bernard Crettaz.

Host or Publisher Seventeen Nineteen