About Farewell
Farewell is a sacred weaving of end-of-life support, death doula education, and ancestral remembrance. Rooted in Middle Tennessee and rippling outward, we offer care at the threshold, train those called to this work, and share teachings for the death-curious, the grieving, and the devoted.
Meet the Founder: Jade Adgate
Jade Adgate is a Certified Death Doula based in Nashville, Tennessee and the founder of Farewell Fellowship, a community for end-of-life education and compassionate care. An eleventh-generation New Orleanian now rooted in Middle Tennessee, Jade provides bedside presence, family support, and grief guidance through Farewell Fellowship and Farewell Education. She also curates The Farewell Library, a growing archive of resources for death literacy, grief, and remembrance.
Her calling began after Hurricane Katrina, when she became the accidental caregiver for her beloved Aunt Sis. Through nursing homes, hospice decisions, and final goodbyes, Jade learned what it means to walk someone home. In 2018, she began volunteering with Alive Hospice in Nashville and has held a weekly bedside shift ever since.
Over the past six years, she has helped establish a volunteer death-doula program, supported hundreds of dying individuals, and mentored new deathwalkers through hands-on, heart-centered training. Whether you’re facing the end of life, called into this work, or simply curious, Jade’s work invites you to build fluency in dying, grieving, and remembering … together.
The Farewell Vision
Farewell is more than a name; it is a practice of presence.
Rooted in bedside care and ancestral wisdom, Farewell Fellowship provides end-of-life support, death-doula education, and community for those drawn to this sacred work.
We serve the dying and their loved ones with steadiness, compassion, and respect, while mentoring new death doulas and caregivers through immersive, heart-centered learning. Together, we build death literacy, support the grieving, and help one another live and die with meaning.
How Farewell Serves
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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 & 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 & 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.
Farewell in Action: Death Doula Practice of Community Care
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![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.
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![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.
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![Community death doula volunteering at Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee]()
Serving as a hospice death doula volunteer at Alive, where Farewell helped launch a community-based program that’s trained over 40 local doulas.
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![Peaceful home vigil scene with candles and sacred objects, representing after-death support and death doula services.]()
After-death care includes personalized vigils and sacred ritual, creating space for beauty, closure, and reverent farewell.
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![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.
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![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.
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![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.
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![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.
In Conversation:
The Philosophy Behind Farewell
In this interview, I speak with fellow death doula Diane Hullet about the heart of my work, the philosophy that grounds Farewell, the calling to this path, and how we can meet death with reverence, community, and care.
Video interview with death doula Jade Adgate discussing the philosophy behind Farewell Fellowship, death midwifery, and end-of-life education.
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