In our eightieth year, we believe reflecting upon death, but not obsessing about it, to indeed help us to make better decisions and to better enjoy our remaining years.
Below are excerpts from LNP’s editorial “We shouldn’t wait until death is near to talk about it”:
“The topic of death ought to be talked about,” Long, the local death cafe organizer, told LNP.
Long said it doesn’t take much to hold your own death cafe: You need someone willing to serve as a facilitator, and a place to have tea and cake and talk. The Death Cafe website offers a how-to guide.
“When we acknowledge that we’re going to die, it falls back on ourselves to ask the question, ‘Well, in this limited time that I’ve got, what’s important for me to do?’ ” death cafe champion Underwood told NPR in 2013.
And so, NPR noted, “it ends up being about not so much how we die but how we live.”
