By Peggy Sue McRae, Journal contributor
Last month, I attended a Death Café held at the Mullis Center. The purpose of a Death Café is to provide a safe place for people to talk about death without judgment or agendas. It’s not a grief group (although those are important too) but a way to explore all aspects of the inevitable phenomena that we each will at some time encounter, death of loved ones and eventually ourselves. Speaking about death may not be considered in general to be “polite conversation,” yet I agree with the Dalai Lama, who said, “Death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is, ‘Yes, death is part of our lives,’ then it may be easier to face”.
About 30-some people attended the Death Café at the Mullis Center. The facilitator of the event introduced