Called to teach and speak to Death as a beautiful part of Life.
Jade Adgate
Jade is a fourteenth-generation New Orleans girl, now living and working in Franklin, Tennessee. Before having her three beautiful kids, Jade studied Philosophy (UNO) and Business (LSU). After Hurricane Katrina, Jade became the primary caregiver of her elderly aunt and learned the in’s and out’s of senior care, from admission into long-term care facilities to advance directive planning and hospice support. In honor of her Aunt Sis, who died in 2018, Jade began volunteering with her local non-profit hospice, Alive.
Jade has served as an active hospice volunteer since 2018 and as a death midwife and home funeral guide (INELDA - 2020, Nine Key Death Midwifery Apprenticeship - 2021).
Farewell Fellowship was created in 2021 to bring holistic, community centered death care to our wider Nashville community. Because books have always been companions for Jade, The Farewell Library was created to increase death literacy and grief awareness through a love of reading.
Throughout her experience serving the dying and their loved ones, Jade has developed a calming presence, an inquisitive approach to conversation, and the ability to connect to others with warmth, compassion, authenticity, and humor.
Meet Jade.
Best Life Best Death podcast host, Dianne Hullet, interviewed Jade about the work of death midwifery and her unique approach. Get to know Jade a little here and listen to her speak to her perspective and lineage of death midwifery.
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