Compassionate End-of-Life Support & Death Doula Training Rooted in Ritual, Integrity, and Care

Farewell Fellowship serves families at the bedside and trains the next generation of death doulas through hands-on mentorship and virtual learning.

How Farewell Serves

  • Death doula support and end-of-life care – overlay of line-drawn holding hands on fading flowers, symbolizing compassion, guidance, and presence at the end of life.

    Death Doula Support & End-of-Life Care

    Personalized death doula services, bedside presence, and grief support for individuals, families, and communities at the end of life.

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  • Death doula training and certification programs – overlay of line-drawn open book on a fading flower, symbolizing learning, wisdom, and guidance in end-of-life care.

    Death Doula Training & Certification Programs

    Flexible, presence-based training for aspiring death doulas. Explore our self-paced, cohort-based, and apprenticeship paths to certification.

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  • Grief and death literacy resources – field of fading flowers with a line-drawn quill overlay, symbolizing writing, reflection, and shared wisdom in the Farewell Library blog.

    Grief & Death Literacy Resources

    Readings and reflection for the death curious. The Farewell Library offers tools, book lists, & resources to help us meet death with courage and care.

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Meet Your Death Doula

I’m a certified death doula, educator, and community ritualist based in Nashville, Tennessee. I founded Farewell Fellowship as a space for holding the threshold: walking with the dying, tending grief, and empowering others to do the same.

Through this practice, I offer both direct end-of-life support and death doula training. My bedside work includes vigil planning, grief guidance, and after-death care. My teaching centers on ethical, community-based, culturally rooted doula preparation, through online learning, mentorship, and apprenticeship.

I believe death is sacred, grief is wise, and no one should walk this path alone. Not the dying, and not those called to serve them.

 
Portrait of Jade Adgate, death doula, educator, and founder of Farewell Fellowship and Farewell Education, offering end-of-life care and death doula training in Nashville and virtually.

Curious About Becoming a Death Doula?

Start with our most popular mini-course:
Death Doula 101 offers a heartfelt introduction to this sacred work. You'll learn what death doulas do, how to get trained, and the many ways to support individuals and families at the end of life. Whether you're new to deathwork or exploring a call to service, this course will help you discern your next steps.

“I took Death Doula 101 online and it was a really informative overview and offered many resources to explore. Jade’s presentation is well done and thoughtful. Highly recommend!”
— Katie Chastain

What Clients & Students Are Saying

Death doula student testimonial overlaid on a photograph of a field of fading flowers, symbolizing transformation, compassion, and the beauty within end-of-life work.

— Casey Pisapia, Farewell Apprentice (2025)

“Jade’s expertise, compassion, and resources are priceless. Her program is incredibly insightful and I feel very confident in beginning my journey to be an end of life doula.”

Ana Garcia, Virtual Workshop Attendee (2023)

“I took part in the Death Doula 101 workshop and it was incredibly informative. Jade is a wonderful mentor and I strongly recommend this session for any aspiring death doula!”

— Andrew & Stephanie McGuire, Death Doula Client (2024)

“Jade gave us space to express our desires for our child in life and in death, and then she ensured that they were fulfilled.  Jade walked with us through some of the hardest moments and gave us the confidence to support and love Adalyn well to the end of her life on earth and beyond.”

Featured
We Are All Apprentices of Death: From Recreation to Re-Creation
We Are All Apprentices of Death: From Recreation to Re-Creation
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Death Doula Dialogues’ Presents: An Afternoon with Rosemary & Pine
Death Doula Dialogues’ Presents: An Afternoon with Rosemary & Pine
Book Recommendations for Little Grievers
Book Recommendations for Little Grievers

Learn with Farewell: Death Doula Blog & Resources

Discover blog posts on death doula education, end-of-life rituals, grief support, and the practical tools of this path. Written for aspiring doulas, caregivers, and the death-curious.

Jade loves to encourage death literacy & grief awareness on IG @the.farewell.library. Check out her content below:

✨ There’s a difference between recreation and re-creation. Recreation is safe, soothing, familiar; the way we sometimes slip into autopilot in our deathwork. But Death invites us into re-creation: flaying us open, composting what is false, and
This is a death altar. A death altar is not a display or a decoration. A death altar is a threshold portal between the living and the dead, the seen and unseen.
 Last weekend, we gathered in a working pottery studio to shape these altars by hand wit
Some of you found this page because you're curious about death. Some came to learn, to remember, to build community as death workers. And some came to attack. Let me be clear: critique is welcome but hatred is not. If you come here to cause harm, yo
👻 Ghost: An Inquiry into What Haunts Us just went live on Substack. I’ve been thinking about ghosts; not just the kind that rattle chains, but the ones that live in our bones. Ghosts of places swallowed by water. Ghosts of people who change o
Some books help you escape; these helped me stay. They aren’t guides to Death in the usual sense. Instead, they’re stories where Death lingers in the margins, or walks right through the center. Stories where ghosts speak, where time bend
 

Where I Serve

From the rolling hills of Middle Tennessee to the hush of bedside vigils, my in-person death doula work roots itself in Nashville, Franklin, and the communities that surround them. The hand-drawn map marks the land where I offer direct, embodied end-of-life support.

But Farewell is not bound by geography. Through virtual courses, mentorship, and immersive death doula trainings, I walk with students across the country and beyond, offering tools, presence, and practice to those called to serve the threshold.

Hand-drawn illustrated map of Middle Tennessee highlighting service areas for in-person death doula and end-of-life care, including Nashville, Franklin, and surrounding regions.