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  • Reclaiming Death Open Hours Flyer

    Reclaiming Death – Art | Ritual | Advocacy

    Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio 159 Old Point Road, Southampton, NY, United States

    Ma's House is pleased to present Reclaiming Death — Art | Ritual | Advocacy, a group exhibition featuring 20 artists expressing personal and cultural connections to end-of-life practices. The exhibition will run from Sunday, February 22—Sunday, May 16, 2026. Death is one of life’s few universal experiences. As long as people are born, people will die. And as long as people have died, artists have played an integral role in creating cultural death practices. Our collective relationship to death and dying is inextricably tied to our humanity and mending that relationship directly impacts all we experience in life. “Reclaiming Death” […]

    Free
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    CT Death and Dying Symposium

    Mattatuck Museum 144 West Main Street, Waterbury, United States

    Join the the Connecticut Death Collective, Mattatuck Museum and Riverside Cemetery for a day of reflection, remembrance, and renewal at our first-ever Death & Dying Symposium. Explore themes of legacy, mourning, and memory through interactive presentations, local vendors, and community discussions. Experience fascinating talks and demonstrations from presenters, enjoy Riverside Reflections in a special slideshow presentation, and discover unique offerings from local creators and educators. Date: April 25, 2026 Location: Riverside Cemetery & Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT Together, we honor the past, engage the present, and preserve Riverside’s historic chapel for generations to come.

    $30
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    Grief Rest Stop+

    The Plant Mystic ​257 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Grief Rest Stop, for those experiencing grief and bereavement Let's let the weight we hold for grief rest a while and have a grief rest stop. 6PM-8PM $89 Register you spot: https://calendly.com/ladydeathdoula/griefreststopplus 6 spots only 257 Danforth Ave, The Plant Mystic Toronto M4K 1N2 Email ladydeathdoula@gmail.com for any questions, or help booking. Grief Rest Stop+ lay down your grief and rest a moment and be supported by a grief release and one-to-one reiki. Meet with Adrianna, aka Lady Death Doula, a death doula and grief educator, and Esné, a clinical hypnotherapist and reiki practitioner, and James a reiki practitioner, a […]

    $89
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    You’re Not Stuck. You’re Grieving.

    Choice Cremation 907 Rivergate Parkway Ste A8, Goodlettsville, TN, United States

    Grief doesn’t follow a timeline and it rarely looks the way people expect it to. After a loss, life keeps moving, but something inside often feels different. For some people it’s heavy and overwhelming. For others it’s quiet, confusing, or shows up in waves they weren’t prepared for. And in the middle of all of that, many people are left wondering if what they’re experiencing is normal or if they’re somehow doing it “wrong.” This conversation is meant to help take some of that weight off. You’re Not Stuck: Life After Loss is a space to talk openly about what […]

    Free
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    Monthly Wailing Ceremony

    Monthly Wailing Ceremony
    Awakenings Wellness Center 1061 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    This is a monthly offering, happening on the second Tuesday of every month. This offering is designed to support somatically moving our shared and personal grief. We begin to build our container through brief sharing and connecting and then move into movement, vocalizing, wailing, praying, and drumming. We are building community through acknowledging and exploring the shared human experience of grief and loss.

    $25 – $75
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    Grief Beyond Graves: Queer Mourning & Collective Healing

    Zoom Cornelius, NC

    Less Fear | More Fierce: Queer End-of-Life Planning LGBTQ+ Centric Online Discussion Series 2nd Wednesdays | 1-2:30 pm ET | | January - June 2026 What would collective healing look like if we made space for every kind of queer loss—not just the ones with headstones? Grief isn't only about death. Queer and trans people often carry grief from non-death losses—family estrangement, identity erasure, loss of community, housing, or health. This session explores disenfranchised grief and collective mourning, offering space to name, witness, and begin to heal these often-invisible losses. We'll also touch on grief in response to social 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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    Laguna Beach Death Café

    Neighborhood Congregational Church 340 St. Ann's Drive, Laguna Beach, CA, United States

    This community event will offer an informal, open conversation about end-of-life planning, death, and dying, shared over refreshments. For those curious about the end of life, Death Cafés offer a safe, accepting place to ask questions or share experiences. They are held on the third Thursday of each month.

    Free
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    Death Book Club (virtual)

    The Death Book Club convenes next month on Sunday, the 17th of May at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST / 7pm BST to discuss Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. Conversation runs for about an hour via Google Meet. Future titles and dates: 16 August: Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks 15 November: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory, Caitlin Doughty email ERIN: ambiant.truth@gmail.com to sign up

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    Childfree By Choice & Grieving

    “It’s Complicated” – Support Group
    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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    2026 Black Cemetery Network Conference

    USFSP Student Centers & Events 200 6th Ave S. USC 173, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    CROSSROADS TO CROSSWALKS, WE ARE HERE: Working to Preserve Hallowed Ground at the Intersection of Dignity and Unity Date, Time, and Location Thursday, May 21, 2026 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. Friday, May 22, 2026 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Reception to follow USFSP Student Centers & Events 200 6th Ave S. USC 173 St. Petersburg, FL 33701 CONFERENCE ABSTRACT This two-day event brings together people, families, community organizations, cemetery preservation advocates, researchers, artists, descendants, heritage practitioners, and anyone committed to learning about Black cemetery erasure and preservation efforts and advancing dignity for the dead. Through presentations, workshops, and community conversations, […]

    $35

 

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