Emily Eliot Miller Death Educator & Doula

Death Educator & Doula

Death Literacy

Advance Forgiveness

The dying process is a dangerous place to bring a fixation on perfection and control. Death plans are expressions of what we value most in our lives, and sometimes reveal fragments of trauma and loss from earlier experiences. If we are not careful, we may feed the fantasy of control and independence that sets more of us up to fail and increases the potential grief and trauma our loved ones will carry.

Wake in New Orleans

Wake is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide  education and resources for meaningful, affordable, and environmentally sustainable death care. They produced a free guide. https://www.wake.education/lgbtqeolguide

Starting the Conversation: End of Life Planning for Families

We mortals tend to avoid these conversations until we are forced by circumstances of life to make decisions for ourselves and others in a crisis. This workshop is designed to help families begin this conversation in a relaxed setting with experienced support. Doing this work, when there is time to consider our values and preferences […]

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul – Stephen Jenkinson

Jenkinson worked as a chaplain in hospice and palliative care for many years in Canada. This book is a brilliant and scathing critique of how reform efforts in medical care (and “the death trades”) have ended up replicating the same death-denying, extending life for more dying, etc. I love the way he connects these cultural […]

Barbara Karnes

BK is a death educator and nurse with a lot of useful information for caregivers of all kinds.

End of Life University

Karen Wyatt, a hospice physician who has become a passionate death educator and advocate. Her project includes hundreds of hours of interviews with death workers, a reading group, and many other resources for mortals and other advocates.

Death Ed for Mortals

An introduction to death and dying through historical, ecological, and cultural perspectives. Resist your fears and avoidance with information, comradery, and action. Each session includes a multimedia presentation and facilitated group discussion. Participants will leave with practical information, tools and local resources for better lives, including death. session 1: Death Leaves Home (medical landscapes) session […]

Death Ed Series at Greenfield Public Library Spring, 2019

The series offers alternatives to fear and avoidance with opportunities to learn, connect with other mortals, and take action for better lives and deaths. Death Leaves Home: navigating the medical landscape Life with Death: ecology and bodies Memorial Arts: saying goodbye and honoring our dead Dying in Community: building capacity and infrastructure for end of […]