Since the Death Cafe movement started in 2011 more than 2,000 popup cafes have sprung up across the world, with the majority opening in this country.

 

But now the movement's founder¹ wants to open a permanent Death Cafe in the British capital and next month will offer shares in it at £50 a go.

 

The permanent Death Café will run as a non-profit Community Benefit Society owned and managed by those who support it.

 

Funeral advisor² and Death Cafe founder Jon Underwood says the aim of the movement is "to increase awareness³ of death with a view to helping⁴ people make the most of their (finite) lives."

 

Death Cafes are not intended to be bereavement⁵ support groups or morbid⁶ places. They are simply environments where mentioning death and the deceased or fears about personal mortality and means of dying are openly welcomed and not unsaid, sanitised or ignored.

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