PA6 Death chat: engaging with dying and death.BACKGROUND

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The St Christopher's social programme, of which Death Chat is part, aims to break down social taboos.



St Christopher's social programme
St Christopher's has a large, welcoming social space, (The Anniversary Centre) and is committed to opening up its buildings in a number of ways. 
The Anniversary Centre
PA6 Death chat: engaging with dying and death.BACKGROUND
 The St Christopher's social programme, of which Death Chat is part, aims to break down social taboos.


 Death Chat, held in the hospice buildings, enables honest discussion about dying and death and topics surrounding these themes.


 Death Chat meets weekly and is an open meeting that takes a different subject each week as the starting point for conversation.  Death Chat has attracted patients, family members, bereaved relatives and the community since September 2013.  Molly found Death Chat to be a welcoming, open and challenging space, 'I have learnt that death is more about my attitude to life than anything else. It has been by far the most important lesson I have learnt since dealing with bereavement.'


 Death Chat provides a forum in which discussion of dying and death for recognises that these are social events and reclaims them from being taboo, to being a normal part of life's experience.
Death Chat