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
I’m Jade, a fourteenth-generation New Orleanian now living and working in Middle Tennessee. I’m a certified death doula, hospice volunteer, and founder of Farewell Fellowship, where I provide compassionate end-of-life care rooted in both tradition and community.
My work began after Hurricane Katrina, when I became a full-time caregiver for my beloved Aunt Sis. Through nursing homes, hospice decisions, and final goodbyes, I learned firsthand what it means to walk someone home. In her honor, I began volunteering with Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2018, and I’ve been at the bedside ever since.
Over the last six years, I’ve helped establish a volunteer death doula program, supported hundreds of dying individuals, and mentored new doulas through hands-on, heart-centered training. This sacred lineage of care now lives on through Farewell Education, my death doula training pathway, and Farewell Library, a growing archive of free resources for people approaching end-of-life, caregivers, death and grief workers, and the death-curious.
Today, I still hold a weekly hospice shift and remain deeply rooted in local service. Whether you're facing the end of life, called into this work, or simply curious, I’m honored to share what I’ve learned and guide others along the way.
The Farewell Vision
Farewell is more than a name. It is both a threshold and a living practice, carried like a prayer. Born from bedside presence and shaped by ancestral care, it offers a sacred container for end of life care, the training and certification of death doulas, and the ongoing education that deepens grief and bereavement understanding.
Within this work, we walk beside the dying and their loved ones with the steady companionship that brings comfort and dignity to life’s closing moments. We guide and mentor those called to this path through immersive hands-on learning and accessible virtual study, helping each person discover their own voice and presence in the role of death doula. We tend to a living library of grief and death literacy resources, personal reflections, and shared stories that open space for honest conversation and deeper cultural understanding.
All of it flows toward one purpose: to build a trusting relationship with death that allows us to live with depth, die with integrity, and walk beside one another through it all.
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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