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Looking to attend events related to death or loss? Whether you’re jonesing for a cemetery tour, searching for a grief circle, or interested in attending an end of life planning workshop, you can find a variety of events, classes, workshops, and gatherings on all facets of death, dying, and grief here.

 

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Silent Book Club of Death NY

Green-wood cemetery 25th St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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 […]

Free

Sunday in the Cemetery

The Green-Wood Cemetery 500 25th St., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Sunday in the Cemetery is a day-long exploration of mortality at Green-Wood. We invite you to candidly engage with grief and death through a compassionate, supportive lens. This free, open-house style event brings together leading experts for engaging talks, workshops, and guided tours that illuminate end-of-life care, funeral traditions, and memorial arts. Through personal stories and interactive experiences, discover community through shared human experiences and gain insights into how we can each live well and remember meaningfully.

Free

The Last Stitch Society

The Exchange 617 Marin St, Vallejo, CA, United States

The Last Stitch Society creates space for the conversations many of us crave but rarely find—about mortality, grief, loss, and how we might live more fully by acknowledging life's impermanence. Bring any portable craft project—knitting, embroidery, mending, sketching—and join us as we stitch and share. No experience necessary, just an openness to authentic connection. Light refreshments provided to nourish both body and conversation. In a culture that often pushes difficult topics into the shadows, Last Stitch Society offers a warm, welcoming environment to explore the full spectrum of human experience. Together, we'll unravel the threads of meaning that connect us […]

$25

Bound By Loss Reading Circle

Virtual Event

Bound By Loss is a thoughtfully facilitated book circle for those navigating loss who feel ready to engage with their grief through reading, reflection, and discussion. This circle will provide a supportive, non-pathologizing space to explore grief-related literature — offering insight, validation, and connection outside the structure of formal therapy and with a return to community in mind. Each month, we’ll read and discuss a selected book, ranging from memoirs and personal narratives to research-based explorations of grief, loss, and meaning-making. Conversations will be facilitated with care, fostering curiosity, self-reflection, and shared experiences. While this is not a therapy group, […]

$10 – $25

 

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