Kick out rote, kick up the roam

“Death Cafe”— it’s not your average cuppa.

Intrigued, I headed to Whitefish on a recent spring afternoon to spend time in a coffee shop with 16 others discussing the end, our ends.

Far from grim, the participants — gently moderated by the Glacier Death Doula Collective led by Niki Glynos-Wolford — engaged wholeheartedly with the topic. The collective states, “Death Cafe aims to shift the conversation around death and dying from one of fear and avoidance to one of familiarity and comfort.”