Silent Book Club of Death NY

Do you like book clubs, but prefer to choose your own book? Want to reflect on your mortality in the company of polite bookworms?

Come read and mingle with new, bookish friends at Silent Book Club of Death! Bring whatever book you happen to be reading—related to the themes of death, grief, loss, aging, or mortality—to read in companionable silence, then share about it with your fellow attendees. You can bring your own book, or borrow one from our library.

Price: Free, registration required at: https://www.green-wood.com/event/silent-book-club-of-death-3/

There have been over a dozen Silent Book Club of Death chapters and pop up events globally. Green-Wood is proud to serve as one of the New York chapter venues.

We’ll be joined by the founder of the first chapter, Catherine of Death Project Manager, who will present on the importance of end-of-life planning, share key tips to getting organized, and opine on logistics as an act of love and care. She will answer questions on designing your own death education event and share work she’s done globally and multilingually to create death-aware programming.

We will mingle before setting the timer to read, and once the hour’s up, death doula and illustrator Lauren Seeley will lead a group discussion on these universal, yet challenging topics.

Lauren Seeley is a death and grief doula for pets and humans. As a death educator, she focuses on death literacy, end-of-life preparation, spirituality, and energy and intuitive work in death and grief spaces. She is the sole facilitator of The Silent Book Club of Death’s NYC chapter and a curator of funerals, altars and memorial spaces. Seeley resides in Brooklyn, NY, where she also works at a funeral home.

*Participation in discussion is entirely optional—you can engage as much or as little as you feel comfortable.

Free. Registration required. Please consider a $10 donation to the Green-Wood Historic Fund so that we can continue to offer more death education programs like this throughout the year.