Home Funerals & Bodycare
A class for death doulas, caregivers, and families. Learn to confidently facilitate home funerals that are safe, legal, and rooted in sacred ceremony.
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Do you want to learn how to care for your loved one at home after they die? To tend to their body with love, create sacred space, and weave ceremony that feels deeply personal and true?
This 2-hour class is a compassionate, step-by-step guide to holding a home funeral, taught by green funeral director, death educator, and La Mort co-founder Lauren Carroll. You’ll learn how to care for the body at home - both before and after death - while crafting rituals that honor your loved one and align with the natural rhythms of the earth. Whether you’re preparing for the future, navigating loss, or stepping into this work professionally, this class will empower you with the knowledge, confidence, and reverence to walk this path with grace.
In two hours, gain the practical, legal, and spiritual knowledge to care for your dead in the way our great-great-grandmothers once did.
For generations, home funerals were a natural part of life. Families tended to their loved ones when they died with care, ceremony, and collective support. Today, the practice of home funerals remains legal in all 50 states, and we can bring this nurturing tradition back into our communities. Let’s bring deathcare back home.
We can all do this work. We’ve simply forgotten how.
It’s time to reclaim the ancestral wisdom and hands-on practices that have guided humanity for millennia.
what’s inside?
Reconnect with Ancestral Practices
Learn how the dead have been cared for across cultures and time - and why it matters.
The Foundations of Home Funerals
The essentials of a home funeral: preparation, steps, logistics, the role of the family, and the role of a death doula. .
Crafting sacred ceremony
How to craft and hold meaningful end-of-life ceremonies, nurture sacred space, and align deeply with the wisdom of Mother Earth.
body care before & After Death
Steps and wisdom to care for your loved one’s body before, during, & after death.
Caring for the Caregiver
Practices & modalities to resource your emotional, spiritual, & physical wellbeing, so that you can do this sacred work with integrity.
Deathwork, ultimately, is guided by love.
When we sit with the dying, hold their hands, smooth their hair, and whisper final words, we do it out of love. That same love guides how we care for them after death - washing, dressing, blessing, and laying them to rest with dignity.
For generations, this work was woven into the rhythm of life, carried out by families and held within communities. Deathcare was an act of devotion, not an outsourced service. Like the home birth movement, the resurgence of home funerals right now is a return to what has always been ours: the right to care for our dead with tenderness, presence, and love.
Deathwork
griefwork
sacred story
psilocybin
devotional business
ancestors
Earth Mother
Legacy Art
Creative Comradery
Deathwork griefwork sacred story psilocybin devotional business ancestors Earth Mother Legacy Art Creative Comradery
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A class for all humans ready to reconnect with an ancient truth: deathcare belongs to us all.
Everyone can do this work, and everyone is welcome. This class is perfect for death doulas, caregivers, lovers of those who are at the end of life, and the death-curious.
Lauren
Your teacher
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.