The Bastyr University Center for Spirituality, Science and Medicine invites you to a series of frank yet light-hearted discussions about life and death as we kick off the new monthly Death Cafes on April 23, 2014.

Brad Lichtenstein, ND, who supervises students at biofeedback counseling shifts at Bastyr Center for Natural Health, will facilitate the conversations that are free and open to the public.

“These are open to anyone willing to take an honest look at how they’re living in the world, and who also want to get some ideas about caring for people who are dying,” he says.

Death Cafes are taking place across the nation, giving attendees the opportunity to take an honest look at the subjects of death and dying, often with complete strangers.

“This is a serious conversation, but it’s not to be taken seriously,” Dr. Lichtenstein adds.

Death Cafes at Bastyr Center for Natural Health are free and open to the public, and will take place from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays on the following dates:

April 23
May 28
June 25
September 17
October 22

To add to the light-hearted approach of the often heavy-hearted subject, Bastyr Center plans to stick with the international Death Cafe theme that states: “At Death Cafes people drink tea, eat cake and discuss death.”

Cake will be provided by nutrition students from Bastyr University, along with Choice Organic Wellness Teas, which were formulated by a master herbalist at the University.

All we ask you to bring is an open mind.

For more information please visit: http://bastyrcenter.org/content/view/2898/