Activities

【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”?

               

【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