【Regular Meetings】
Date | Theme | |
1st | March 7th, 2015 | What does it mean to you to die? |
2nd | May 2nd | Me and Rice and Life |
3rd | July 4th | Do you donate organs when your loved one dies of brain death? |
4th | September 15th | Gifts from the Dead? From the experience of taking care of my father |
5th | November 7th | Life and death in Africa in which does not have sufficient medical care |
6th | January 9th, 2016 | What does it mean to “live with loss”? |
7th | March 19th | What does it mean to “truely live life”? |
8th | May 21st | Read “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf” |
9th | July 16th | What role does the funeral serve as? |
10th | September 17th | Read “Koi-chan’s First Present at Deathbed” |
11th | November 19th | What is good care? |
12th | January 21st, 2017 | Reading “Buta Grandma” |
13th | March 18th | What is the ideal way to die? |
14th | May 20th | How do you live your life after bereavement? (With guest speakers) |
15th | July 15th | What can the dead people do? |
16th | September 16th | Read “Kanai-kun” |
17th | November 18th | What starts with death? |
18th | January 20th, 2018 | Read ” A letter to a child with cancer” |
19th | March 17th | How would you write ” A letter to a child with cancer”? |
20th | May 19th | The boundary between “living” and “dying” -Where do people become “dead people”? ~ (With guest speakers) |
21st | July 21st | Why and how do you deal with “death”? |
22nd | September 15th | Read “Badger’s Parting Gifts” |
23rd | November 17th | Where is the “meaning” of being alive / had been alived? (Question from a pediatric emergency doctor) |
24th | January 19th, 2019 | Let’s discover future dialogue themes in “Moshi Bana Game”! |
25th | March 16th | What can we learn from “lonely death” and “isolated death”? |
26th | May 18th | What I am looking forward to about my “death” |
27th | July 20th | Who and what is the funeral for? |
28th | September 21st | What does “mourning” mean? |
29th | November 16th | What does it mean to “remember the dead people”? |
30th | January 18th, 2020 | Why is death difficult to talk about? |
31st | May 16th | What the Pandemic of the Coronavirus Asks |
32nd | July 18th | How do you deal with unknown things and things whose shape is uncertain? |
33rd | September 19th | How is “death” and “time” related? |
34th | November 21st | Where do people go when they die? |
35th | January 23rd, 2021 | Can the idea of death reach common ground? |
36th | March 20th | Is it special to die from the coronavirus? |
37th | May 15th | What does it mean to inquire death? |
38th | July 17th | Why do you give birth? |
39th | September 18th | How do you perceive that you were born? |
40th | November 20th | Who does death belong to? |
41th | January 29th,2022 | Is living a long life happy? |
42th | March 19th | What do people live for? |
43th | April 23rd | Living with loss – welcoming Yoshie Masui |
44th | July 23rd | What can people say they have? |
45th | October 22nd | How to accept and support “I want to live”? |
46th | January 28,2023 | Why do people want to help others? |
47th | April 22nd | Exploring Raison d’Etre with Ryunosuke Ishida |
48th | July 22nd | What does it mean to have a dialogue with the dead? |
49th | October 21st | How should we accept “death” as a survivor and how should we live? ~From the experience of bereavement with my child~ |
50th | January 27th,2024 | Why are there differences in the way we perceive “death”? |
51th | April 27th | Watch the short film “Lights” and have a discussion: |
52th | July 27th | Is there such a thing as a farewell without regrets? |
53th | October 19st | Why do people respond to calls? |
【Special Events】
Date | Place | Theme |
September 24th, 2016 | Life Nursing Care Center Nobara (Shimada City) | Let’s read and discuss “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf” |
December 21st, 2016 | Herbis Plaza (Osaka City) | Cafe Mortal @ Bayer Yakuhin |
July 25th, 2017 | Japan Productivity Center (Shibuya Ward) | Inquiring life and death through dialogue |
November 25th, 2017 | Hyakutyoumori (Shizuoka City) | Why don’t you read a picture book and philosophize? |
November 25th, December 2nd, 9th, 2017 | Shizuoka City Northern Lifelong Learning Center (Shizuoka City) | Dialogue cafe to learn “life” from “death” (3 times series) |
April 15th, 2018 | Cafe LOG (Hiroshima City) | Cafe Mortal for people involved in funerals |
September 16th, 2018 | Umi Cafe nef (Niigata City) | Cafe Mortal @ Niigata Umigatari |
December 8th, 2018 | Toki Messe (Niigata City) | Cafe Mortal (Annual Meeting of the Clinical Research on Death) |
June 8th, 2019 | Nishogakusha University (Chiyoda-ku) | Cafe Mortal (Japan Society for Communication Studies) |
July 6th, 2019 | Rokuhirotei (Fukuoka City) | Cafe Mortal in Fukuoka |
December 4th, 2019 | Higashi Shizuoka Office Lounge (Shizuoka City) | Cafe Mortal in Japanese and English-What is the role and responsibility of the family involved in “death”? |
October 9th, 2021 | Online | “Death” witnessed in Switzerland-Meeting and parting with a man |
December 4th, 2021 | Online | Touching with Mr. Y’s words-with Ritcher Mitsuko |