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  • advance care planning day

    Advance Care Planning Day with a Death Doula

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    It’s Advance Care Planning Day, and today is a reminder that we need to make a plan for when we can’t speak up for ourselves. April 16th, 2026 7PM – 8PM EST $10 ONLINE Virtual Admin Hangout with a Death Doula Register your spot: https://calendly.com/ladydeathdoula/advance-care-planning-day You know you should do it… but every time you sit down to do it, you end up doom scrolling, or even washing the dishes because ANYTHING is better than planning for a crisis. What is it with our brains shutting down and freaking out about planning for worst case scenarios? Talking about sex won’t […]

    $10
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    Book Club: What The Dead Know by Barbara Butcher

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    What The Dead Know by Barbara Butcher Wednesday April 1st 5:00 - 6:00 PM (PT) 8-9 PM (ET) About the book: A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) true crime memoir from Barbara Butcher, a trailblazing New York City death investigator, who reveals the untold stories behind more than 5,500 death scenes, including the nation’s most horrific tragedy: the 9/11 attacks. When Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism, she found an unexpected lifeline in a job at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in NYC. As only the second woman ever hired for the […]

    Free
  • DeathandTaxes April26

    Death & Taxes: An Overview for Those Still Living

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    It's officially tax season—and that goes for corpses, too! In this hourlong online talk, I'll provide an (ideally funny) overview of how to pay a dead person's state and federal taxes, as well as the estate and inheritance taxes you might encounter after a loss.

    $10

  • Laughing in Face of Death March 2026

    Laughing in the Face of Death

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    Why so serious? From gallows humor to the joy of celebrating a life well-lived, Becky Robison—author of the new book My Parents Are Dead: What Now? A Panic-Free Guide to the Practicalities of Death—will offer fun, silly, and passionate pathways into the inevitability of death and dying to make necessary preparations less intimidating. Register on Morbid Anatomy’s website.

    Free
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    The Friday the 13th Summit: Life, After Life, and the Bridge Between

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    While Friday the 13th is often depicted as an ominous day of bad luck, we’re here to appreciate the occasion with some inquisitive and thoughtful fun. Join us as we discuss, discover, uncover, and connect the known with the unknown, the seen with the unseen, and the felt with the body, mind, and heart. We’ll explore the depth and width of life, after life, and the bridge between and turn this into an auspicious date we look forward to! Enjoy a non-spooky Friday the 13th of death positivity - let's talk about an inevitable part of life.

    $23.95 – $31
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    Thinking About Becoming a Death Doula? Q&A with The Death Network

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    💻 Death Doula Community Conversations Are you curious about becoming a death doula - or navigating the early stages of building your practice? Whether you’re just starting out or looking for guidance as you grow, this monthly gathering is for you. The Death Network Collective invites you to join us for an open, supportive conversation about the realities of death doula work: the highs, the lows, and everything in between. Each month we’ll dive into common questions like: How do I connect with my community as a new death doula? Do I need a website or social media presence? Who/what/where/why […]

    $5

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    Grief Visions – Intuitive Collage Workshop

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    Vision board + grief + collage = Grief Visions! Join That Good Night for an evening of meditation, visualization, and making your own unique grief vision board. We will have gentle conversations about our grief, time to visualize our grief, and engage in the healing activity of collage.

    $15 – $35
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    Death Literacy Book Club

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    Welcome to the Death Literacy Book Club! Join me online for lively discussions on books that explore the theme of death in unique and thought-provoking ways. Whether you're a bookworm or just curious, this club is open to everyone. You will receive a workbook to fill in as you read and we will go through this when we meet up. Share your thoughts, connect with fellow readers, and discover new perspectives on mortality through literature. Let's dive in together, improve our death literacy, level up our end of life preparedness game, get lost in a story and grow connections at […]

    $15.00
  • The Luckiest

    Book Club Author Kelly Cervantes discusses her book The Luckiest with Befriending Death

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    The Luckiest by Kelly Cervantes (with the author) on Wednesday February 25th 5:00 - 6:30 PM (PT) 8-9:30 (ET) We are so looking forward to the return of Kelly who spoke to our book club last year with Normal Broken, describing her journey raising and losing her daughter to a neurodegenerative disorder and epilepsy. Here's a description of The Luckiest: When moving from a conservative Midwestern suburb to New York City to pursue an acting career, Kelly Cervantes never could have imagined what life had in store for her—or how much she would fundamentally change along the way. The Luckiest […]

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  • Death Book Club FB Event

    Virtual Death Book Club

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    In this book club, we read a new book every two months, but meet once a month over Zoom. We take suggestions and decide as a group which book to do next. Email us to join and get the zoom link.

    Free

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    Decomposition Isn’t A Dirty Word – Let’s Talk About Green Burial

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    Join us for a guided conversation on how burial in the United States drifted from our ancestral roots - and how green burial and conservation cemeteries can reconnect us with what’s natural, human, and quite literally in our DNA. Science doesn't lie... our bodies are designed to decompose and return to the earth, but green burial is limited in the US. Hosted by Penny Waugh of The Death Network, with panel guests Ed Bixby of The Global Green Burial Alliance and Jamie Phillips of Spirit Sanctuary Conservation Cemetery. Together, we’ll unpack how we got here and why restoring time-honored burial […]

    Free

  • ObitWorkshopFeature November25

    Write your own obituary! An online workshop

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    Why should the dead have all the fun? During this 2-hour, in-person workshop, you’ll not only learn the conventions of writing an obituary, but you’ll also get to: Tell your own story Hype yourself up Learn what’s most important to you Come prepared to write! And if you’re willing, I’d love to hear you read your obituary aloud… After purchase, you’ll receive an additional email with workshop login information. Please allow five business days for this email to arrive. Questions? Contact hello@deadparentswhatnow.com

    $15

 

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