This week, the University of Bradford has been holding a series of “Death Cafés” with sessions on subjects ranging from how to donate organs and tissue to biobanks to how to plan your own funeral.
The University operates a human tissue bank and is hoping that the events will get more people thinking about how they can help others after they die, including becoming tissue donors.
Death Cafés are comparatively well-known in America. With a website dedicated to helping those who want to organise meetings at which “people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death.” See more [here].
The aim is to break taboos and encourage people to talk about things they virtually always leave until it’s too late.
According to Joanne Mullarkey, tissue research nurse at the University of Bradford, "We'll be asking what people want to happen at the end of their life. People plan all other events like birthdays, so why don't they plan what happens when they die?”
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