Death Literacy
Understanding endings, grief, memory and how to plan. We can have safe conversations, workshops, and resources around death, including green burial and celebration/memorial options, and pre-planning for folks ages 30-130. Contact me.
In the Works
Mortality Fest is a lively day-long event packed with art, performance, death resources, and other offerings including a variety show (dance, music, theater, comedy, spoken work) and workshops (obituary writing; eco-funeral design; storytelling). Participants will have the time of their lives investigating and re-imagining life and death and art.
During the months leading up to the Fest, there will be gatherings, workshops, small performances, games, open-mics, and film screenings, through the monthly Mortality Club. Hint: you’re already subscribed.
Mirthful discussion, resource-sharing, writing, moving and thinking around death (abstract
and literal) and the aliveness it provokes. We may imagine our own memorials -- some people write their own eulogies/obituaries --fantasy, fictional, or real. All toward living a joyous, intentional life. Usually limited to eight people. Tea, cookies, and fruit served.
Contact me to schedule or register for an in-person or online DEATH/ALIVEness Café.
Stairs: Lakewood (2025)
People have trouble talking about and planning for death. We often feel overwhelmed. We procrastinate. We’re stuck! It feels like a negative experience, in every way.
With the help of experts, well-researched resources, and relevant information, I can help normalize talking and planning around death. I have curated a network of professional partners (estate attorneys, morticians, funeral directors, vigil celebrants, death doulas) who help make the inevitable palatable, affordable, and not overwhelming. Even fun.
Workshops (One-on-one and Groups)
I call this “death admin” — getting your affairs in order. It’s a series of meetings to get all your death ducks in a row for yourself, a spouse, or a parent.
You come away with will, estate planning, health directives, next of kin information, funeral memorial service/celebration planning, even your own obituary if you want. And you can always change any element.
Can you do this yourself? Absolutely! Have you?
For the past decade or so I have taken to the stairs, falling, faking slow motion, wherever I am.
Stairs are places of transition.
Here, Lawrence Benson and I juxtapose aliveness and death.