Welcome to the Farewell Library
A growing collection of writing, conversations, books, and resources for anyone curious about dying, death, grief, and what mortality can teach us about being alive.
Read deeply • Think critically • Live mortally
Death literacy is more than knowing what happens when we die.
It is learning to think about mortality before we are forced to. To ask better questions about care, grief, ritual, bodies, meaning, and what we owe one another at the end of life.
The Farewell Library is a place for those questions. Through writing, reading, conversation, and shared resources, we explore death not as a problem to solve, but as something worth understanding.
Writing
Thinking about death in public.
Essays and reflections on dying, death, grief, care, mortality, and the questions that emerge when we spend time close to the end of life.
Reading
Books worth keeping close.
The books that have shaped, challenged, and complicated how I think about dying, death, grief, care, and mortality. Some are practical. Some are philosophical. Some simply ask better questions.
Listening
Conversations about death, dying, and how we care for one another.
A collection of conversations from behind the microphone and across the table, exploring death literacy, end of life care, grief, and the work of being human.
From the Archive
The Bevival Podcast, Exit Interviews
I spent a season behind the microphone for Bevival’s Exit Interviews, talking with authors whose work asks us to look more closely at death, dying, grief, and mortality. Together, we explored the ideas behind their books and what their writing might teach us about living with the knowledge that our lives will end.
In Conversation
Around the Microphone With Others
Morbidly Curious Historical Figures
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Margaret Wise Brown
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Aldous Huxley
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Marie Laveau
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Walt Whitman
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Edgar Allan Poe
Jade loves to create content about death literacy. See all Jade’s content on IG @the.farewell.library.
Have Questions?
Whether you're standing at the threshold of this work or deepening your path, I’m here to walk beside you. Reach out with your questions, curiosities, or clarities-in-progress, there’s no such thing as too small or too strange. Let’s find the right next step together.