Good morning on this pleasant Tuesday.

The last place you might think to spend a sparkling spring day is at a death cafe.

But that’s exactly what we did this month, and what we found, to our pleasant surprise, was anything but bleak.

On the second Tuesday of each month, the landmark Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn hosts a “death cafe,” a salon-style gathering in which visitors can speak openly about death and mortality.

The death cafe movement, started in England in 2011, is now a global tradition taking place in coffee shops, offices and other unlikely spaces in dozens of countries. Its goal is to make conversations about dying — from the philosophical (is there an afterlife?) to the mundane (metal urn or marble?) — less taboo.