Dying Together (The Art of Community Death Care)

Village-inspired approaches to befriending death, awakening aliveness, and belonging to each other at the end of life

In a world where death is medicalized, sanitized, isolated, and outsourced, Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care introduces the radical notion that mortality is a gift—and a teacher.

Author Lee Warren, a cultural pioneer and leading voice in the conscious dying movement, draws from three decades of ecovillage living, where six significant deaths over two years changed the landscape of their collective.

Through firsthand accounts, embodied exercises, and a community-building toolkit, Dying Together offers a visionary yet grounded approach that returns death to the center of our personal and collective lives—and guides us to belong to each other in the tenderness of loss and grief.

Inside you'll find:

• Soulful practices drawn from a community that chose to face death together
• A wisdom-based toolkit for preparing ourselves—and each other—for death in sacred and meaningful ways
• Contemplative and communal exercises to foster conversation, connection, and intimacy with death
• Guidance for reshaping our fear of death, creating shared rituals, and supporting each other at the end of life
• A framework for restoring coherence and reverence to our communities.

Essential reading for anyone ready to face the inevitability of dying with honesty and heart—caregivers, community builders, sustainability seekers, and all who sense that learning to die well is part of remembering how to live.