Reimagining and “Greening” the End of Life
The denial of death, of the feminine and of our climate crisis have a common root—a profound disconnection from our bodies and the natural world. New end-of-life practices are emerging to shift us away from disembodiment and toxicity and towards partnering with nature to reclaim our wholeness and the sacred. We’ll highlight aspects of this work being led by women in hospice, bedside and palliative care, home funerals and green burials—reimagining the place of death in our communities and culture. Hostedby author/activist Anneke Campbell. With: Ladybird Morgan, hospice nurse, social worker and Director of the Humane Prison Hospice Project; Shoshana Ungerleider, MD specialist in Palliative Care, founder of EndWell; Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Recompose.
Women's Tent
October 19th | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Panelists
Shoshana Ungerleider
Founder
End Well Project
Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, a physician, philanthropist and speaker, works as an internist at Crossover Health in San Francisco. She is the Founder and President of End Well, a media platform and annual interdisciplinary symposium on design and innovation for the end of life experience. This is a premier convening for thought leaders from design, technology, healthcare, policy, spirituality, entertainment, the arts, education and patient advocacy with the goal of creating solutions to make the end of life more human-centered.Katrina Spade
Founder
Recompose
Katrina Spade, a designer, activist and entrepreneur dedicated to radical innovations in our society’s death care experience, founded Recompose, a benefit corporation dedicated to offering earth-centric, participatory, and meaningful death care to the public in 2017. An Echoing Green and Ashoka fellow, she has a background in architecture and anthropology.Ladybird Morgan
Executive Director
Humane Prison Hospice Project
Ladybird Morgan, Executive Director of the Humane Prison Hospice Project (whose goal is to make prisoner-provided hospice services available in California’s 33 prisons), has been working in end-of-life care and on the frontlines of sexual violence as a registered nurse, clinical social worker, and educator for 20+ years. She has worked with many organizations including The Zen Hospice Project, Hospice By The Bay, and Doctors Without Borders (MSF).Anneke Campbell
Author
Anneke Campbell is an author/community activist/yoga teacher who has worked as a midwife, nurse, English professor, and has recently trained as a death midwife/educator. She co-authored (with Thomas Linzey) We The People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the U.S., co-edited (with Nina Simons) Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, edited Nina's new award winning book Nature, Culture and the Sacred: One Woman Listens for Leadership, and co-produced with her husband Jeremy Kagan the dramatic feature film, Shot, which she also scripted.
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