While happy hour at a local bar often means discounted drinks and post-work conversation, Houston nonprofit Death Collaborative views it as a chance to spark discussion about a topic many people avoid \u2014 death.<\/p>\n
The group was founded in 2012 as a way to create accessible, community-centered spaces for people to hold conversations about issues such as grieving, caregiving or making end-of-life plans. On the social gathering site Meetup, the number of participants has grown to over 1,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since 2022, the Death Collaborative has hosted several events around the Houston area, including at local breweries, cafes and bookstores.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next event is from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Karbach Brewery, 2032 Karbach, in northwest Houston.<\/p>\n
Jaz Henry, spokesperson for the organization, said the group is also looking to add programing to address\u00a0funerals, caregiver support, grief education, legacy planning and community-based death care practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While happy hour at a local bar often means discounted drinks and post-work conversation, Houston nonprofit Death Collaborative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-344915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}