COMMUNITY EVENTS

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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Community Meet Up

Name: Silent Book Club of Death
Start: 2025-10-31T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-31T18:00:00-04:00

September 2025
September 27, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Art as a Mirror: Exploring Grief at the Met Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

Throughout human history, art has played an important role in the ways that we memorialize loved ones in death and express our grief. Join us at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a meaningful exploration of how art can illuminate and validate our personal experiences with loss. Led by creative grief professional, Melanie Wilson, and arts educator, Deborah Chi, this intimate group gathering will invite participants to view and discuss several carefully selected works of art that speak to different aspects of the mourning process. Through reflective exercises and thoughtful conversation, participants will have the opportunity to explore their own […]

$55
September 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Too Poor to Die: A reading & conversation with author, Amy Shea

Ararat Armenian Cemetery 1925 West Belmont Avenue - Memorial Mausoleum, Fresno, CA, United States

Join author Amy Shea at Memorial Mausoleum at Ararat Armenian Cemetery for the launch of her debut book, Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins. Through intimate essays and fieldwork, Shea brings to light the stories of those who pass unnoticed, unhoused, unclaimed, and underserved. The afternoon will include a reading, conversation, and book signing with the author, accompanied by a live bagpiper, a brief memorial honoring those buried in the county cemetery, and a reception with baked goods alongside coffee and tea. Books sold by Judging by the Cover bookstore. In the spirit of […]

Free
September 28, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Eating Our Feelings: A Book Club for Readers and Grievers

Love reading? Love eating? Morbidly curious, or curiously morbid?Join us for the launch of Eating Our Feelings, a book club for readers and grievers. We will meet on Sunday, September 28 at Mr Cookbop in New Haven CT from 1 - 2:30PM. Here's how it works: we all read the same book, then share food based on what we read. We will chat for two hours and eat our feelings. This month, we are reading Crying in H Mart. This bestselling memoir is about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring […]

Free
October 2025
October 3, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - October 31, 2025 @ 7:00 pm

Grief Walks

Riverdale Park East 450 Broadview Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FREE TO ATTEND Thursdays in October 2025 6PM – 7PM Riverdale Park East – meet at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse 450 Broadview Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2N1 Closest transit stop: Broadview Ave at Langley Ave-Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital Join Death Doula & Soul Companion, Adrianna Prosser aka Lady Death Doula, for an hour long walk with grief *in partnership with InTO the Ravines – a Park People and City of Toronto supported event Autumn is a season when we embrace death and dying as we watch the leaves turn and the weather change, and Mother Nature shows us how to die with […]

Free
October 9, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm The Good Death Book Club Experience FREE 12-Month Death and Dying Course

The Good Death Book Club Experience FREE 12-Month Death and Dying Course

According to a recent AARP study, there are over 52 million caregivers in the United States right now—and 70% of them say they are overwhelmed. Every single day, I receive messages from current and former caregivers who say: “I wish I had this knowledge when I was caring for my loved one.” Or: “The Doulagivers training is helping me more than I can say.” The truth is: We will all have a caregiving story. Let’s make sure yours is one filled with support, empowerment, and peace. That’s why I created The GOOD DEATH BOOK CLUB Experience: Death and Dying Course—a […]

Free
October 10, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Virtual Silent Book Club of Death

Death Project Manager, Silent Book Club of Death, Silent Book Club of Death NYC, Silent Book Club of Death MTL, and TalkDeath’s Book Club are thrilled to invite you to a Virtual Silent Book Club of Death meeting! This virtual gathering will be on Friday, October 10th at 5pm ET/ 4pm CT/ 3pm MT/ 2pm PT. Silent Book Club of Death meetings are structured like any Silent Book Club gathering: you meet up with friendly, like-minded readers, and then politely ignore them while reading a book of your own choosing. Members are encouraged to bring books related to the theme […]

Free
October 11, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Journal Club and Death With Lex present: A Moment With Grief

Dockweiler Beach 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa Del Rey, CA, United States

Journal Club is excited to announce a Moment with Grief, a special edition meeting all about grief! We will be joined by the incredible Alexis from Death with Lex to guide us and welcome us to the world of grief. This meeting will follow our usual format of journaling, mindfulness, somatic practices but will have a focus on grief and all the things related to it. Remember that grief is NOT only about death, so we will be exploring many different expressions of it. Where will we be? This month we are meeting around the fire at Dockweiler, there is […]

$5
October 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Friends Missing Friends: A Gathering for Friend-Loss Grievers

Virtual Event

Are you grieving the death of a friend? Do you want to meet and gather with people who GET it? Friend-loss grief is isolating because it's disenfranchised, and there are very few resources available. We shouldn't have to do this alone. Let's honor our friends, talk about our grief, and find comfort in community.

Free
October 18, 2025 @ 2:00 am - 4:00 pm

Haunted: A Death Positive Picnic

Central Park 1340 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY, United States

Join me for a spooky season picnic featuring death discussion prompts via Coffin Cards and a brief ritual to remember lost loved ones. Bring snacks and blankets! The event is free—but if you’re coming, please send me an email so I can keep you up to date about any changes or cancellations due to weather. Hope to see you there! hello@deadparentswhatnow.com

Free
October 21, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Sexual Bereavement – Queer Death Salon

Zoom Cornelius, NC

Let’s gather and engage with our questions and feelings about: sex after the death of a loved one. the disenfranchised grief of polyamorous and kinky relational loss. how pleasure and erotic energy can support our mourning. changes in desire as death approaches for ourselves or a loved one. cultural expectations of how a widow should act and our internalized stories about that. anything sex/pleasure and bereavement related. No question is too taboo. Jess will invite folks to participate in embodiment exercises, freewrite and consider the ways they want to be in relationship to their sexual expression within their (anticipatory) grief. […]

Free – $30
October 23, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Due Date: A Library Death Salon

Due Date: A Library Death Salon

Louisville Free Public Library 301 York St., Louisville, KY, United States

This Halloween season, beware the dead hand! “Dead hand control” is a real legal term for our ability to control our property from beyond the grave. On October 23, join writer and death doula Becky Robison for a spoooooky estate law overview. What’s the difference between wills and trusts? What happens if you don’t have a will? How can you make one? Knowledge is a great way to overcome your fear. Contact to register: kaira.tucker@lfpl.org or (502) 574-1649.

Free
October 31, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Silent Book Club of Death

Join us on Halloween for a pop-up meeting of a book club for introverts! We will be co-hosting this event with Catherine of Death Project Manager. Like book clubs, but want to read your own book? Want to reflect on your mortality in the company of polite bookworms? Looking for an anti-social social club, where you can meet people then politely ignore them? 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 theme of death /dying / grief / aging / mortality - […]

Free