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Page Count:240
Dimensions: 6 × 9 × 0.55 in
Publication Date:December 08, 2026
ISBN:9781774060384
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Sustainability:Printed on 100% recycled paper
Printed in:Canada

Dying Together

The Art of Community Death Care

Through real-life stories, soulful practices, and a community-building toolkit, Dying Together shows how preparing ourselves—and each other—for death transforms fear into intimacy, restores coherence to our communities, and reconnects us with life’s generative cycles.​

This item will be released October 30, 2026.

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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.

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Meet the Author

Smiling woman in floral dress and pearl necklace standing outdoors near a creek and trees.

Lee Warren is a death educator, end-of-life preparation guide, and somatic practitioner. She is a cultural pioneer and leading voice in reimagining intimacy with death as a pathway to ecstatic aliveness. With over 30 years of experience living in intentional, land-based communities, Lee draws deeply from life at Earthaven Ecovillage in Southern Appalachia, where she co-created regenerative systems for home-building, food production, renewable energy, and progressive self-governance.

Immersed in exploring more reverent ways to live, Lee also participated in collective approaches to death care, gaining firsthand knowledge of caregiving in a cooperative context, including at-home death care, home funerals, green burials, and community-based grief rituals. Her work bridges the practical and the mystical, weaving embodiment, contemplative inquiry, and culture repair into a recipe for empowered living and dying. Lee is the founder of ReclaimingWisdom.com and QueenofDeath.org, platforms offering education and resources. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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