Building death literacy, together.

Practical education and honest conversations about dying, death, grief, and caregiving for communities, organizations, and groups across Middle Tennessee.

Bring Farewell To Your Community

Workshops • Speaking • Community Conversations

How well do you know the laws that shape your practice?

Join Lauren Richwine of Death Done Differently and Jade Adgate of The Farewell Library for a three-part virtual intensive exploring the legal landscape of death doula work.

All sessions take place live via Zoom from 12–1 PM Eastern/11-12 PM Central.

Registration includes all three sessions, access to session recordings afterward (subject to presenter approval), and a bonus resource from the complete legal literacy resource toolkit.

Registration: $149
Early Bird: $129 through November 1 with code EARLY-BIRD.

THE THREE-PART SERIES

  • Death Doula, Meet Cease & Desist: What 50-State Research Reveals About Death Doula Practice

  • The Funeral Code Is Part of Your Toolkit: Transforming Legal Literacy into Professional Power

  • Open participant Q&A with Institute for Justice Attorney Ben Field

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Death education belongs in community.

  • Grief in Community

    Gathering in a local park for a facilitated grief circle, creating space for grief to be witnessed and shared rather than carried entirely in private.

  • Death Church

    Gathering in community for guided meditation and conversation about mortality, making space to consider death not as an abstraction, but as part of how we live.

  • Sound & Grief

    Sound & Grief

    Exploring sound and the singing bowl as practices for creating space for grief, reflection, and remembrance.

  • Behind the Scenes of Deathcare

    Touring a local funeral home and crematory to make what happens after death more visible, understandable, and less mysterious.

  • Death Altars

    Creating death altars alongside a local potter, exploring how making, ritual, and remembrance can connect us with mortality and the people we have lost.

  • Death Doula 101

    Introducing the community to the role of the death doula, what nonmedical end-of-life support can look like, and how doulas work alongside families and existing care teams.

  • Pine & Clay

    Exploring herbalism as ancestral deathwork and the ways plants, traditional knowledge, and relationship with the natural world have long shaped how we care for the dying and the dead.

  • Shrouding the Dead

    Learning the practice of shrouding with a local burial shroud weaver and exploring what it means to care for and prepare our dead by hand.

Ways to Partner with Farewell + Learn in Community

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    Wellness practicioners may want to collaborate on integrating grief tending, or death education into community events. Past partnerships have included: Yoga for Grief and Coming Home to Yourself: Somatic Practices for Deathworkers.

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    Skilled artisans may offer workshops or skill-shares where our communities overlap. Examples include: burial shroud weaving and shrouding demonstration, making clay death altars with local potter, and herbal ancestors for death and grief care.

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    Faith communities have offered death doula education to their congregations, as well as opportunities to engage in mortality work as a community. Past experiences included: Death Doula skills for church care teams, Death Church: an Evening of Death Meditation and Grief Circle for community.

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    Community care professionals can offer support opportunities in their unique niche. Previous example: sound bowl healing for grief, psychedelics at end-of-life workshop, and series of intensive writing for grievers.

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    Adjacent community service providers may provide a welcoming space to answer questions for the community. In the past we’ve explored natural burial conservation center, local funeral home and crematorium, and contrast therapy studio.

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    Libraries, schools, universities, and educational spaces can offer places for their communities to deepen their understanding of serving the dying and tending the grief. For example: Montessori schools may offer Keeping Death at Home workshop, local libraries may host Advance Care Planning for Seniors, or universities may have death doulas guest speak about our work.

Community members gather around death doula and burial shroud weaver for a demonstration on weaving burial shrouds in Nashville, Tn.

Death literacy belongs to all of us.

For most of human history, knowledge about dying, caring for the dead, and tending to grief lived within families and communities. Community education helps return that knowledge to the places where we live, work, gather, and care for one another.

The more we know together, the less any one person has to figure out alone.

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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.

Not ready to learn in community? Start here.

You don’t have to host or attend a community event to begin learning about death and dying. Explore the Farewell Library for free articles, resources, books, and conversations about deathwork, caregiving, grief, and mortality.

Explore the Farewell Library
Explore the Farewell Library