Ray Peterson Had His Own Little Death Cafe for Awhile

Death Be Not Decaffeinated: Over Cup, Groups Face Taboo. (The New York Times, 6/16/2013)

Excerpt:    The group, which meets monthly, is called a Death Cafe, one of many such gatherings that have sprung up in nearly 40 cities around the country in the last year. Offshoots of the “café mortel” movement that emerged in Switzerland and France about 10 years ago, these are not grief support groups or end-of-life planning sessions, but rather casual forums for people who want to bat around philosophical thoughts. 

• What is death like? 
• Why do we fear it? 
• How do our views of death inform the way we live?

Death cafe locations:

Ray Peterson sings about death.

Ray Peterson