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In The Wake of Life Our Town Paper Press copy
In the Wake of Life…An immersive, theatrical experience

In the Wake of Life…An immersive, theatrical experience

Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home 1076 Madison Ave, New York City, NY, United States

A Bold Theatrical Experiment in a Sacred Space Staged in the chapel’s historic rooms, In the Wake of Life invites audiences to move through a series of short plays, live vignettes, and interactive art installations. Each room becomes its own act — a poetic encounter with memory, mourning, and meaning. Licensed grief professionals are on hand to ensure that this deeply emotional experience remains grounded in compassion and care. “This is not grief as tragedy — it’s grief as transformation,” says playwright and producer Elizabeth Coplan, founder of Grief Dialogues. “By bringing theatre into a funeral home, we’re reclaiming the […]

Free
In The Wake of Life Our Town Paper Press copy
In the Wake of Life…An immersive, theatrical experience

In the Wake of Life…An immersive, theatrical experience

Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home 1076 Madison Ave, New York City, NY, United States

A Bold Theatrical Experiment in a Sacred Space Staged in the chapel’s historic rooms, In the Wake of Life invites audiences to move through a series of short plays, live vignettes, and interactive art installations. Each room becomes its own act — a poetic encounter with memory, mourning, and meaning. Licensed grief professionals are on hand to ensure that this deeply emotional experience remains grounded in compassion and care. “This is not grief as tragedy — it’s grief as transformation,” says playwright and producer Elizabeth Coplan, founder of Grief Dialogues. “By bringing theatre into a funeral home, we’re reclaiming the […]

Free
MementoMori Feature

Memento Mori: A Death Meditation and Living Funeral Ritual

Earth and Spirit Center 1924 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY, United States

Memento mori is a Latin phrase that means “remember you must die.” Death is an inevitable part of life, but society discourages us from confronting our own mortality. In this two-hour workshop, join trauma-informed meditation teacher Leah Raidt and death doula Becky Robison to acknowledge—and even welcome—death’s presence in our everyday lives. We’ll explore the individual dimensions of death by creating an altar of our own memento mori. We’ll examine the universal dimensions of death via meditation. And finally, we’ll hold a living funeral ritual where participants can write their own eulogies and learn about burial shrouding—including what it feels […]

$20 – $50
Demystifying Death & Dying

Demysitifying Death & Dying

Soundview Center 432 3rd Street, Langley, WA

Join Whidbey Island Death Midwife Venessa Greenheron and practicing medium Larry Johnson for an afternoon experience designed to open the doors to creating ritual for, and communication with, our departed loved ones. This event will feature an opening grounding meditation; a presentation and guided discussion about reconnecting back to ritual in our dying spaces and grieving processes; and a session with a medium working to communicate with the loved ones you are longing to hear from. (Please be advised, there is no guarantee of specific contact.)

$100
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Ars Moriendi – The Art of Dying

Graceland Cemetery 4001 N Clark St, Chicago

Ars Moriendi is a collaboration by advocates for the dead: Mary Sweeney and Jen Den. This event will be held inside the chapel at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery and Arboretum. We will engage in thought-provoking discussions to connect with like-minded individuals who embrace the concept of death positivity. With Ars Moriendi we aim to break the taboo surrounding death and learn to appreciate the cycle of life in all its complexities, while taking an informative approach to alternative end-of-life options and how you might reconsider your demise. Whether you're curious about end-of-life planning, interested in alternative funeral practices, or simply want […]

$13.00

Mortem: Death School for Artists

Mortem is a 10 day online death school for artists with the Biophilium to pursue our curiosity of death and to explore and develop our identities as a death-curious artists. The virtual residency will involve daily live video lectures with international death care and funeral industry workers, historians, biologists and artists on a range of death related topics and several short one on one meetings with artists who make art about death around the world. Built in to the 2- 2.5 hours of daily programming are discussions, recommended assignments and show and tell. The program is designed to give insight […]

$600
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The Importance of Memorialization: A Conversation & Altar-Making Workshop

Maple Grove Cemetery 127-15 Kew Gardens Road Queens, Celebration Hall, New York, NY, United States

Join death educator and doula, Lauren Seeley of the Silent Book Club of Death along with Amy Shea, author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins, for a meaningful evening of reflection, conversation, and creative expression around death and memorialization at Maple Grove Cemetery in the Celebration Hall. Presented by the Friends of Maple Grove, this event will explore how we remember and honor those who have died, including those who go unclaimed. Amy Shea will offer a brief visual presentation featuring memorials and headstones crafted by families in county cemeteries and potter’s fields, […]

Free
CT Death Collective Event

Writing Workshop: Reading, Writing, & Dancing with Death

Darien Public Library 1441 Post Road, Darien, CT, United States

The Connecticut Death Collective & Darien Public Library welcome Amy Shea, essayist and author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins (Rutgers University Press, 2025). Inspired by the classic imagery of the dance with death (a memento mori) —artworks that depict skeletons leading people from every station of life into the grave—Amy will guide participants through writing prompts and exercises that open space for reflection and creativity. Attendees will generate their own short pieces of poetry or prose in response to the images, using writing as a way to explore inequities in death and […]

Free
The Good Death Book Club Experience FREE 12-Month Death and Dying Course

The Good Death Book Club Experience FREE 12-Month Death and Dying Course

According to a recent AARP study, there are over 52 million caregivers in the United States right now—and 70% of them say they are overwhelmed. Every single day, I receive messages from current and former caregivers who say: “I wish I had this knowledge when I was caring for my loved one.” Or: “The Doulagivers training is helping me more than I can say.” The truth is: We will all have a caregiving story. Let’s make sure yours is one filled with support, empowerment, and peace. That’s why I created The GOOD DEATH BOOK CLUB Experience: Death and Dying Course—a […]

Free
“It’s Complicated” Support Group

“It’s Complicated” Support Group

Virtual Event

A monthly peer-led Zoom group for people who had a strained relationship with someone who’s died. It can be tough to be in a group with other folks who were close with their parent, sibling, grandparent, partner, co-parent, friend, etc. As much as I like for there to be a range of experiences represented in grief groups, so that we can hear diverse perspectives, sometimes it is nice to be with people who “get it.” When addiction, mental health challenges, conflict, estrangement, abuse, etc. were a part of the picture, it can affect the grief journey in unique ways. This […]

$5 – $20
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“It’s Complicated” – Support Group

Childfree By Choice & Grieving

Virtual Event

It’s not a given that everyone who is childfree by choice is 100%, unabashedly content with the decision. While we may be set in our choice, there can still be grief there. I know there is for me. It’s a both-and/two truths situation. Many of us make this choice for a lot of unfortunate, depressing, and/or systemic reasons, and I created this space where we can be with our truths, and hurts, around it all. Our monthly peer-led Zoom group is intended to be a space for people who have chosen not to have children. It is not intended to […]

$5 – $20
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Due Date: A Library Death Salon

Louisville Free Public Library - South Central Regional Branch 7300 Jefferson Boulevard, Louisville, KY, United States

Death is the great equalizer? Maybe not. This month, death doula Becky Robison welcomes Amy Shea, author of the book Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins. Amy will lead us in some discussions and writing exercises about death inequity inspired by the classic imagery of “the dance of death.” There will be books for sale, cool swag—and maybe even some baked goods. Plus, we’re collecting sock donations for St. John Center! To register, contact kaira.tucker@lfpl.org

Free

 

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