Oct. 6: Death Café, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Desert Sage Restaurant. Join us for this free event, open to everyone and beginning promptly at 2. Over tea and cookies with friends, neighbors, and strangers, we’ll have… Read More

A Dress Rehearsal for Our Deaths: Yom Kippur asks us to look our mortality in the face. Can we sustain the stare? Read more here > 

CaringBridge: Your free CaringBridge website has all the tools you need to keep your family and friends updated during a difficult time. A CaringBridge website provides all the information your family and friends need so they can give you all… Read More

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/well/write-your-own-obit.html Far from seeming narcissistic, undertaking a self-obituary can be a form of summation and of caregiving for those who may be in need of direction after we are gone.

A beautiful 8-minute video about death doula Alua Arthur, who helps people prepare for death physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Chaim, the Hebrew word for “Life,” is structured in the form of a double plural. Just like yadaim, “hands,” and oznaim, “ears.” (And yes, mayim, “water,” has the same form). The single word for LIFE carries an intrinsic… Read More