Vail Public Library to host Death Cafe with local death doula to make the hard conversations easier

Vail Public Library to host Death Cafe with local death doula to make the hard conversations easier

Shelby Hawkins remembers the first death he ever witnessed. At the time, he worked for a hospice agency in Glenwood Springs and was aiding a man in his final days. He watched as everyone in the man’s inner circle showed up to say goodbye.  “I felt something I had never felt in all of my medical background, and I knew that there was something to it, that it found me as much as I found it.”  That moment led him to become a death doula — someone wh…

Carbondale Public Library invites public to 'Death Cafe'

Carbondale Public Library will host a 'Death Cafe' at Oakland Station to provide an opportunity for open conversation regarding death.