Death Ed
with Erin
Here, Education is the Bridge from Fear to Preparedness
Welcome. You are here to learn more about death and dying. Maybe because it is imminent in your own life, or maybe because you want to train as a death doula. Welcome to this space. I am here to guide you with knowledge, compassion, and experience through what many consider the hardest part of life: its end.
This is a space for:
Erin Merilli
“So long as we love, we cannot dispel grief, but we can manage its weight by educating the fear out of it.”
Education for Every Level
We fear what we don’t understand, and through learning, we can dispel fear. After creating over 20 programs tailored to every level, I am reflexed at teaching individuals, communities and professionals how to approach death with confidence, knowledge, and compassion.
My current offerings include evergreen classes (pre-recorded, self paced), as well as live online classes, and, most excitingly, I am traveling to a new city every other month to offer my cornerstone Death Doula Training Workshop in person to small groups of mortality minded learners. The next stop will be Deerfield Beach, FL on February 1, 2025!
Each of my current courses offers a full description but if you want to short version, we explore themes of
Ancestry, cultural death practices + personal ancestry, lineage and its inheritance, the modern funeral industry (including a critical look behind the curtain) ,green burial options and the environmental impact of burial. How we can alchemize our bodies and return as a rose or an oak.Grief: personal, collective, and disenfranchised. Death laws, democratization, and autonomy at the end of life. Ceremony, rites of passage, and spiritual concepts of the afterlife. If you aren’t sure what's right for you, send me an email here.
Online learning
Evolving Death Care
Tailored Educational Experience
Remote
In Person Classes
Transformative Deathcare Training
Personalized Learning Paths
In Person
Public Speaking
Redefining Deathcare
Customized Curriculum
In Person
Upcoming events.
Death Doula Services:
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Planning for the end
practical logistics, family preparedness and mining through grief and fear until we find some level of surrender.
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Visitations
providing companionship to the dying and respite care to the caregivers.
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11th Hour Care
presence when death is imminent, tending to the space, supporting family lead care.
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Ceremony
planning meaningful rituals, ceremonies, memorials and funerals that support the grieving in personal ways.
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Workplace support
what happens when there is a loss in the workplace? Lets structure, support and organize gatherings to tend to the rip in the community cloth, honoring the one who died and the feelings that remain, supporting staff mental health, wellness and performance.