​Our Death Café @ the Lotus upholds standards set forth by DeathCafe.com:

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• We have no intention of leading participants to any conclusion, product or course of action.

  • We are NOT offering this Death Café to promote our businesses. In doing so would contravene the above principle of not leading people to any conclusion, product and course of action.

• We offer an open, respectful and confidential space where people can express their views safely, without judgement or agenda.

• We offer this Death Café on a not for profit basis. However, Donations and Sponsors Welcomed and help secure the ongoing use of space and refreshments.

• We intend to offer refreshing drinks and nourishing food. 

• Death Café is not a bereavement support or grief counselling setting. Death Café doesn't work as well for people who aren't able to discuss death comfortably and openly. However, you are welcome to come and just listen to the conversations if this is what makes you comfortable.

• Death Café is not an opportunity to give people information about death and dying - regardless of how good or important it is. Rather we discuss death without expectations. For this reason having guest speakers and information materials available is actively discouraged

• Death Café doesn't work as a method of community engagement, research or consultation. It shouldn't be used for these purposes.

• In the Death Café there are no hierarchies.

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Standards selected from https://deathcafe.com/how