The Last Ecstatic Days

Join facilitator Lee Warren, death educator and death walker, for a special virtual screening of this ground-breaking film. The film will be followed by a discussion, Q&A, and integration process.

About Lee Warren:

Lee Warren has been fortunate to learn from the dying in the context of a village. Over the course of two years, from 2016 to 2018, there were six deaths at Earthaven Ecovillage, the place she’s called home for more than two decades.

Those deaths, and the generous people who experienced them, were incredible opportunities for service to the great mystery. From end-of-life paperwork preparation, to working with hospice and sitting with the dying, to collaborating with blood families on all aspects of the death process, to tending our beloveds for after death services, to creating home wakes, home funerals, and home burials, the village came alive with cooperation and the magic of synchronized flow.

These end-of-life ceremonies and rituals weave together the fabric of community, which gives meaning to every aspect of the death process. People, both from within and from outside the village, expressed how life-changing and heart-expansive these experiences were for them.

What Lee learned during this sacred time is the following:

• Death is a gift for all involved.

• We have everything we need internally for a good death.

• Conscious and positive death experiences are possible.

• Preparing in advance, both internally and externally, makes a good death more possible.

• A village context is by far the best way to depart. So let’s build the village. Everywhere.

• Tending to the dying creates a bond with the whole in a way that nothing else does.

Lee has woven end-of-life education into her community building work as foundation to becoming alive, present, and embodied humans.