Nashville Death Doula Support and Training for Families, Caregivers, and Future Doulas

Farewell Fellowship provides compassionate end-of-life doula care for families in Nashville and Middle Tennessee while training the next generation of death doulas through hands-on mentorship and virtual learning.

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Death Doula Support

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 & Practitioner Programs

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

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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 Farewell’s Founder

Jade Adgate is a practicing death doula, educator, and community ritualist based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jade 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, Farewell offers both direct end-of-life support and death doula training.

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

Death used to happen in the home. Families were prepared for it because aging, decline, and the dying process, also happened in the home. Families tended the dying. Communities served the dead. Today, we have outsourced, professionalized, institut
I took a writing workshop a few years ago and the prompt was to write a “How To” poem that explained something you do often that isn’t common knowledge. At the time, I was spending my days in bedside work with those who were dying,
It will probably surprise exactly no one that I lived for gold stars on my worksheets as a kid. So this is one social media trend I am here for. When I think of the spaces of people at end of life, there are 6 things that I immediately want to give a
There are some key values I want to keep at the heart of my work as a death doula and a deathcare educator: human-focused, relationship-based, community care for the dying, the dead, the grieving, and their caretakers. So I have to ensure that I&rsqu
There are words we use so often that we stop thinking about what they actually mean: presence, silence, love, friendship, memory, goodbye. But spend enough time alongside dying and grief, and familiar words begin to carry different weight. That is t
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Farewell in Action: Death Doula Practice of Community Care

  • Death doula apprentices creating clay altars as part of end-of-life ritual training

    Farewell’s hands-on training invites students to explore ritual and reverence, like shaping clay death altars as acts of devotion and memory.

  • Death doula providing bedside end-of-life care with compassion and presence

    Compassionate end-of-life care offered by a trained death doula, grounded in presence, tenderness, and sacred trust at the bedside.

  • Death doula facilitating a public meditation on death and community grief ritual

    Co-hosting a community meditation on death to offer a sacred space to reflect, grieve, and honor the mystery of impermanence together.

  • Client anointing a death doula apprentice in a sacred end-of-life ceremony

    A dying client anoints her doula apprentice, blessing him into service. Farewell’s mentorship weaves lived experience and sacred trust.

  • Death doula leading a community education workshop on end-of-life care and death literacy

    Leading a public workshop on what death doulas do, as part of Farewell’s mission to make death more accessible through education and dialogue.

  • Death altar with farewell-branded laptop screen showing a Medical Aid in Dying training course, representing virtual death doula education rooted in ritual.

    Death education, rooted in ritual. A farewell training module on Medical Aid in Dying open on my laptop, surrounded by sacred altar elements.

  • Certified death doulas Jade Adgate and Heather DeWire at Crawford Funeral Home with funeral directors touring cremation facility.

    Farewell death doulas, Heather DeWire and Jade Adgate, building community connections with local funeral directors at Crawford Services (Nashville, Tn).

  • Candlelit park shelter at dusk where grief circle for community grief tending was facilitated by Farewell Fellowship certified death doulas.

    Farewell doulas hosted a community wide grief circle at Warner Parks in Nashville, Tennessee to invite grievers into tending and witness.

Where Farewell Serves

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

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

Colorful illustrated map of Nashville and surrounding neighborhoods, labeled with neighborhood names like Franklin, Bellevue, Brentwood, and others, that show where certified Death Doula, Jade Adgate serves families at end-of-life.