IN THE PRESS
“Though there are many and varied ways for families and friends to honor their dead, we don’t seem to want to talk about it until it’s too late... Lauren Carroll and her partner, Erin Merelli, are trying to change all of that."
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TEDxMileHigh
Rocky Mountain PBS with Alexis Kikoen
VICE News
Trevor Moore Show
Podcasts...
#MillennialShow
Voicemails For The Dead
Sh*t We Don’t Talk About with Mia Voss
National Home Funeral Alliance: A Path Home
Death, Dying and Our Ancestors in our Soils
How Girls Run the World (Parts I & II)
Suffocate City
Trash Magic!
Mortality and the Morgue
Body To Burial: A True Crime Podcast
The Mediocre Podcast: On Death & Dying with Erin Merelli
Westword
“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
Canvas 8
“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
Hospice News
“This work has a legacy to it, 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 with death doulas who can help people pass with peace” … read more
NBC
“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
Farewelling
“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
Policy Horizons Canada
“This initiative represents a desire to normalize and de-stigmatize death, foster healthy attitudes toward death as an integral part of life, and open additional dialogues” … read more
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