VILLAGE DEATHCARE NONPROFIT

Village Deathcare empowers individuals, families and communities through education, modeling, and one-on-one caregiving to spiritually, emotionally and physically support the dying. The focus is on health and well-being throughout the life-cycle, understanding that an awareness of mortality awakens a completeness of the preciousness of life. Village Deathcare consults or collaborates with doctors, hospice staff, therapists, town clerks, schools, chaplains, spiritual centers and other community members and organizations to create more cohesive awareness around end-of-life plans/directives, care and disposition. This non-medical form of death doula care encourages community deathcare in holistic and therapeutic modalities to reduce anxiety and existential fears by encouraging clarity through mindfulness, breathing practices, education, self-love, ancestral healing and multicultural support.

VILLAGE DEATHCARE was founded by Anne-Marie Keppel in 2017 and made a nonprofit in 2022.

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