In the Press

“The Deathwives is a collective focused on broadening the conversation about death and helping people feel more comfortable in dealing with it, both professionally and personally. ” … read more

“The Deathwives Collective is a group of professionals that educates others about the alternatives to typical funerals to help forge a cultural change through the death positive movement, which encourages people to think and talk freely about death” … read more

“As people embrace more positive attitudes towards death, there are opportunities for businesses to change the funeral narrative. Deathwives is broadening discussions around this traditionally hushed subject.” read more

“This is community work. This is everyone’s work. Just as we would benefit as a culture by living closer to the land, understating the seasons better, or learning to grow our own food, we are also wiser for living closely to life and death. It is rich with wisdom to share” ... read more

“More women are joining the field and with that, bringing compassion and new ways to honor our loved ones that are more unique to them and their lives. We are shifting away from the pre-packaged, cookie-cutter traditional funerals” … read more

“This initiative represents a desire to normalize and de-stigmatize death. An essential part of this process is to foster healthy attitudes toward death as an integral part of life. Such initiatives could open additional dialogues” … read more

“This work has a legacy to it — really empowering us to be able to see life and death in a new way. We can’t take away dying, but we can have it be less of a fearful process. We can clear the cobwebs free around dying with death doulas who can help people pass with peace” … read more

“Colorado’s death workers are hoping to undermine tradition and help the environment with their emotionally intelligent and more organic approach to the one thing that we can all count on. Deathwives is making the topic less taboo” … read more