a living funeral ceremony intake

A Living Funeral Ceremony is an immersive meditative experience that encourages participants to face their own mortality. Through engaging in ritual and guidance through a death visualization–contemplating your own memorial as you imagine letting go of your earthly self–participants are invited to "die before you die, to live while you’re alive."

This ceremonial experience provides a safe and supportive space to confront fears around death and impermanence, while also fostering a deeper connection to life’s fragility and beauty. Often compared to the experience of ego death, this ritual leaves many with a renewed sense of purpose and a profound appreciation for the present moment.

Kaitlyn trained directly with Emily Cross of Steady Waves Center who originally created this ceremony inspired by living funerals first conducted in South Korea in an effort to prevent suicides by helping people to see the value of their lives.

    • Creates a sacred, intentional space to mark symbolic endings and invite conscious rebirth

    • Offers a well-worn ritual pathway that relieves decision fatigue and emotional overwhelm

    • Allows for both agency and surrender, giving grief a container while letting transformation unfold

    • Provides a tangible, somatic connection to what is being released, honored, or mourned

    • Disrupts normative, often religious or clinical grieving frameworks with an embodied and liberatory practice

    • Invites the ego to soften so the soul can step forward

  • Starting at $275
    Contact for custom pricing based on your needs

  • I am a trained doula with years of experience and education around grief and ritual. I am not a licensed therapist and this service is not meant to be a substitute for legal, medical, or psychiatric care.