Anxiety, urgency? Why death cafes are witnessing a surge in demand via Facebook, Zoom
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A number of people in Europe must have at least some degrees of awareness about death cafes. These are places where discussions over death can be held over a cup of coffee and snacks. And now when hundreds of thousands have died in the last few months due to coronavirus, owners of these cafes report a surge in the number of customers becoming a part of it through Zoom and Facebook.
Nicole Stanfield, owner of the Taunton death cafe in Somerset, UK also witnessed the same phenomena and says that the participants coming virtually want to plan their deaths.
"I feel like people have an increased sense of urgency now, and death seems less abstract when we hear about the number of dead every day in the news," she said reported Sky News.
"People are realising that they should talk about and plan for death while it's still possible."
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"They are full and booked with a reservation list for each cafe," says Caroline Dent, who runs the Finsbury Park death cafe in north London, adding that there is a rising number of online meetings.
She also said that "there is a lot of anxiety" because death is around us, referring to coronavirus.
"...and it doesn't discriminate', Dent said.
Rabbi Miriam Berger, who held a funeral via Zoom after her grandfather died of coronavirus in March says "it created a real sense of togetherness".
"You could flick through the pages of screen after screen of family and friends who had joined us - we had over 200 people there with us - and actually that makes a difference, because we did feel supported and we did feel there were family and friends around us, we just weren't physically at the cemetery together."
The funeral through Zoom also helped Berger's 96-year-old grandmother as otherwise, she had to go to the graveyard.
"Her words were, 'I can really feel the love on this screen, I can really hear all of your love' - and I think that was powerful for all of us, because it gave a sense of exactly what we needed her to feel in that moment," Berger said.