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Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care
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ISBN13: 9781774060384
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
What if death was not something to fear--but one of life's greatest teachers?
In modern culture, death is often hidden from view, outsourced to professionals, and experienced in isolation. Yet for most of human history, dying, grieving, and caring for one another at the end of life were woven into the fabric of community life.
In Dying Together, death educator and community practitioner Lee Warren explores how reconnecting with death can help us reclaim something many of us are longing for: deeper belonging, stronger relationships, and more meaningful ways of caring for one another.
Drawing on more than three decades of experience in intentional communities--including her years at Earthaven Ecovillage in the Southern Appalachians--Warren shares a compassionate and practical vision for bringing death back into the center of community life.
At the heart of the book is a remarkable period known within Earthaven as The Death Years, when six community members died over the course of two years. What emerged was a living curriculum in communal death care--one that revealed how mortality can become a powerful teacher, helping people cultivate connection, resilience, and collective wisdom.
Combining personal stories, practical guidance, ritual, reflection, and community-based approaches to caregiving, Dying Together offers a path toward a more conscious and life-affirming relationship with death.
What You'll Gain
- Practical tools for community-based death care and end-of-life support
- Guidance for creating meaningful rituals around dying, grief, and remembrance
- Greater confidence navigating grief, loss, and mortality
- A deeper understanding of death literacy and death-positive culture Insight into home funerals, green burials, and community-centered mourning practices
- New ways to foster connection, belonging, and mutual care during times of loss
- A grounded framework for creating more death-aware and compassionate communities
Death and Grief Were Never Meant to Be Faced Alone
Rather than treating death as a private event or medical problem to be managed, Dying Together explores village-inspired approaches that bring caregiving, grieving, and remembrance back into community life.
Through stories, contemplative practices, and real-world examples, Warren demonstrates how facing mortality together can strengthen relationships, deepen resilience, and help communities rediscover their capacity for care.
This is not simply a book about preparing for death.
It is a book about learning how death can teach us to live more fully, love more deeply, and belong more completely.
A Different Kind of Book About Death and Dying
Many books about death focus on individual grief, medical planning, or spiritual theory.
Dying Together takes a different approach.
Rooted in the lived experience of intentional community, it explores how death can become a catalyst for connection, collective healing, and cultural transformation.
By weaving together death literacy, community caregiving, ritual practice, ecological awareness, and embodied wisdom, Warren presents a vision of mortality that is both deeply practical and profoundly human.
Who This Book is For
- Caregivers and end-of-life companions
- Death doulas and death educators
- Readers interested in conscious dying and death-positive culture
- Community organizers and intentional community members
- Those exploring grief, ritual, and collective healing
- Sustainability and resilience practitioners
- Readers seeking practical and spiritually grounded approaches to death and dying
- Anyone longing for greater belonging, connection, and care at the end of life
About the Author
Lee Warren is a death educator, somatic practitioner, and end-of-life preparation guide with more than 30 years of experience living in intentional, land-based communities. Drawing on decades of work in community caregiving, grief ritual, green burial practices, and death education--including her years at Earthaven Ecovillage--she helps people develop a more conscious, compassionate relationship with mortality.
Dying Together is an invitation to see death not only as an ending, but as a teacher, a gift, and an opportunity to strengthen the bonds that make us human.
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