A COLLECTIVE FOR THE DYING AND THEIR LOVED ONES

Join us this month as we receive guidance from one of the founding members of the Center for Conscious Living and Dying in NC.

Traditionally deathcare was offered in community. It is also one of the ways in which community is formed. Before dying became a medicalized event and before embalming practices and funerals became an industry, we cared for our own. We knew our loved ones' wishes and carried them out with the support of our network. Final acts of care were carried out by loving hands, not outsourced to professionals. This contact and presence with the reality of death affected the way we grieved and also how we experienced our own mortality. Facing the inevitability of one of life's most powerful passages with community empowered us to live more fully.

If you have any desire to be of service at end of life in any capacity (healing arts, doula, legal, music, green burial etc) please join our collective!

We meet at Ripple:

701 East Bay Street Suite 121

GPS will direct you to the main Mercantile & Mash lot; we are located in the lot behind Rappahannock Oyster Bar, on the corner of East Bay and Blake Street. East Bay facing side. Parking lot is monitored but not so much on weekends.