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SILENT BOOK CLUB OF DEATH

Learn more about Silent Book Club of Death, which I founded with Be Present Care, Heavenly Mist Death Doula, and The Death Deck. Hosted monthly in Los Angeles!

Learn how to start your own topical Silent Book Club, like Silent Book Club of Death LA. (Please reach out if you’re looking to start your own local chapter - I’d love to hear about it and help you brainstorm!)

Add to our GoodReads list for Silent Book Club of Death with your own death positive reading! Or, browse our bookshelf on Bookshop.org.

LOCAL SILENT BOOK CLUB OF DEATH CHAPTERS + EVENTS

Silent Book Club of Death Brooklyn is hosted monthly in different venues.

Queer Grief Club hosts a monthly Silent Book Club of Death PDX in Portland Oregon.

A pop up Silent Book Club of Death will be held in May 2024 in Washington DC. Make sure to RSVP!

Silent Book Club of Death Buffalo NY was hosted monthly by Acupunktrix.

In Silicon Valley, Palo Alto City Library hosted a monthly death positive Silent Book Club.

I hosted a bilingual pop up Silent Book Club of Death Warsaw Poland, in June 2023.

The Colorado End of Life Collaborative hosted a pop up Silent Book Club of Death in Denver July 2023.

Altadena Main Public Library hosted a pop up Silent Book Club of Death in Altadena CA in July 2023.

I hosted a virtual, global Silent Book Club of Death in July 2023.

In concert with Larkspur Conservation Natural Burial, I hosted a pop up Silent Book Club of Death in Nashville TN in November 2023.

There was a pop up Silent Book Club of Death in Sedona AZ in February 2024.

DEATH POSITIVE EVENTS IN POLAND

I hosted two death positive events in Poland, in Polish and English, June 2023: Silent Book Club of Death Warsaw, and a Death Positive Game Night with Instytut Dobrej Smierci.

DEATH AND TAXES WEEK

In mid April 2023, I hosted Death and Taxes Week - a week of death positive events focused on end of life preparation. Read more about our Death Positive Game Night, Silent Book Club of Death, and National Healthcare Decisions Day Paperwork Party Potluck.

Death and Taxes Week 2024 involved a Silent Book Club of Death and National Healthcare Decisions Day Paperwork Party with an attorney, funeral director, death doulas and social workers, art making, and an on site notary, hosted at the Studio Death Doula LA space. Check out this video about our event!

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

I have presented and facilitated discussion with community groups about death positivity and End of Life preparation nationwide, including in person at Altadena Public Library (July 2023 and October 2023) and Palo Alto City Library (September 2023).

I’ve presented virtually on End of Life preparation as care work, including at Gabrielle Elise Jimenez of The Hospice Heart’s Hospice Masterclass (June 2023). I spoke on Loving End of Life preparation at Death Doula Days at Historic Congressional Cemetery in DC over Zoom (December 2023).

I’ve hosted in person community events like a Golden Girls themed Mortality Mixer around Betty White’s 101st birthday (January 2023), and a conversation with LA Contemporary Archive about preserving your artistic legacy through death planning and artist archives (February 2024).

I’ve tabled at community events like LA Art Book Fair at MOCA (August 2023, after the one year anniversary party for Silent Book Club of Death), and A Life Well Lived (October 2023).