Vote for community deathcare panels at SXSW 2024!

Vote to see Community Deathcare Panels at SXSW 2024!
See links to vote below.

NHFA Board Member Isabel Knight & former Board Member Lashanna Williams are pitching two panels on community deathcare for the 2024 South by Southwest Conference. Your input during the Community Voting Period (until 8/20) can help make these panels a reality!

PANEL #1: ARE YOU AFRAID TO DIE ALONE? WHY WE NEED COMMUNITY DEATHCARE
Join us, a group of nonprofit leaders whose organizations are championing community deathcare as we talk about why deathcare is inherently a community-driven project. You cannot have a good death without a community, and the heroic, difficult, often thankless act of building that community is something that itself will help you live a longer, richer life. You simply can’t lift a body, wash and shroud a body, or dig a grave by yourself. The future we want to see is one where people die when they want to, where they want to, and how they want to. You are an integral part of making that happen.

With:
Isabel Knight, President, National Home Funeral Alliance
Sarit Wishnevski, Executive Director, Kavod v'Nichum
Lashanna Williams, Executive Director, A Sacred Passing
Emily Miller, Board Member, Green Burial Council

Vote for "Are You Afraid to Die Alone?" at SXSW 2024 here.

PANEL #2: ALIX IN FUNERALLAND: OVERCOMING IMPOSSIBLE DEATHCARE THINGS
Inspired by the nonsensical world of Alice in Wonderland, we identify “impossible” challenges experienced with deathcare, suggesting ways to overcome them, individually and collectively. Included: The Rabbit Hole (pressure for getting it right and doing enough), The White Rabbit (white western world social expectations for death and funerals), The Cheshire Cat (grief which comes and goes forcefully, without warning), The Queen of Hearts (marginalization of experiences from personal and professional structures), and a sequel, The Jabberwocky (a fearsome life that remains).

With:
Bonnie Bizzell, Owner & Guide, BOANN
Ashley Johnson, Founder, Death Doula, Loyal Hands
Lashanna Williams, Executive Director, A Sacred Passing
Sara Williams, President, Funeral Consumers Alliance North Carolina

Vote for “Alix in FuneralLand” at SXSW 2024 here.