The brainchild of Bernard Crettaz, sociologist, founder of the Société d’études thanatologiques and fervent Christian, who wanted people to “talk about death in the bistro”, these Cafés were created to free up discussion about death and dislodge the strongest taboos.

Today, Rita Bonvin is one of the people who have taken up the torch with the association Envie de dire la mort and who is perpetuating these special exchange spaces, whose objective is: “living orality”, i.e. an exchange in the presence of others that invites encounters – “civic orality”, which concerns everyone – “non-specialized orality”, which recognizes experience, lived experience. In this sense, to encourage non-judgmental exchanges between full-fledged human beings, we ask you to express yourself without “professional posture (…) without theory (…) or therapy”.

The anthropologist’s latest work will be available on site thanks to the collaboration of Labor et Fides, who have republished it and whom we thank for their participation.