Mocha and mortality will be on the menu at a cafe with a difference, held in Newport later this month.

Death cafes began in the UK in 2011 and are becoming are increasingly popular. As of today there have been 3408 death cafes in 37 countries.

The cafes bring people together to discuss the usually taboo subject of mortality over a cup of tea and slice of cake.

They offer a unique opportunity to talk about the ethics, practicalities, beliefs, emotions, rituals and everything else surrounding death.

"Listening to others and expressing your own thoughts and feelings helps prepare for the inevitable without fear or secrecy," said Newport's Vicky Moller, who is organising the event.

"The issues covered are as diverse as the people attending; deaths people have experienced, the ideal way to spend the last phase of one's life, when to stop medication and invasive procedures, where to die and be buried, the kind of funeral and burial - whether religious, spiritual, joyous, green or DIY, how to support mourning, there are so many questions and areas of interest."

Vicky has also bought some fields in a "lonely beautiful place" and says she will soon apply for planning permission to add them to the growing number of green burial sites around the country.

"I have been interested in these issues since my grandmother took me to a blackthorn glade when I was a teenager saying this was where she wanted to be buried, and that she definitely did not want to live if her faculties were gone," added Vicky.

"I have also been inspired by John Seymour's conscious dying and his beautiful DIY burial on his old farm."

She added that one of the advantages of talking about death now is that the family will know their relatives' wishes before they can no longer speak for themselves, reducing debate and makes the family's life easier.

Pembrokeshire's first death cafe will be held at Newport Memorial Hall on Sunday, August 21, from 3pm until 5pm.