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Hold your own Cafe of Reminiscence

Would you like to bring together friends, family or members of your community to reminisce and share anecdotes of dead loved ones? Why not run your own Café of Reminiscence?

 

Just Festival has been running popular monthly death cafés in Edinburgh for several months now, filling the Bohemian café Love Crumbs with the sound of strangers talking (and even laughing) about death.

Joining in the spirit of To Absent Friends, this November, they are planning to replace their usual death café with a Café of Reminiscence.

In partnership with Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief and Love Crumbs café, Just Festival have produced a conversation menu to help get the discussions started, and have shared the menu here so that people can print it off and use it for their own gatherings.

The menu is available to be downloaded here: Café of Reminiscence Menu

Guests might also wish to bring something with them that reminds them of a dead loved one - a ring, a book, a photo - to help get the stories started.

The menu can be printed off and used as it is, or used as the basis for you to create your own unique conversation menu. Structured in three 'courses' the menu asks a variety of questions, for example 'Does remembering always have to be sad?'; 'Are there any foods that evoke memories of people you love?' and 'If you had one last day with them what would you do?'

 

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