Home Funerals & Bodycare
A live class for Death doulas, caregivers, and families ready to learn how to confidently facilitate a home funeral that is safe, legal, and rooted in sacred ceremony.
Taught by Lauren Carroll
Jan 30, 2025 • 10am-12pm MT
Pay-what-you-choose! $66 - $99
Registered students receive recording
Do you want to learn how to care for your loved one at home after they die? To lovingly tend to their body, create sacred space, and weave meaningful ceremony? This live, 2-hour class offers a compassionate, step-by-step guide to everything you need to know for holding a home funeral. From caring for the body at home (both before and immediately after death) to crafting personalized rituals that honor your loved one and align deeply with the rhythms of Mother Earth, this class empowers you to navigate this sacred journey with confidence and reverence.
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, families gathered at home to bless, honor, and guide their loved ones through life’s final threshold. They tended to the body, gathered to grieve in community, and approached death with reverence and care. Today, home funerals remain legal in all 50 states, aoffering us the opportunity to reclaim this sacred tradition.
We can all do this work. We’ve simply forgotten how.
It is time to bring deathcare back home and reclaim the wisdom and practices of our ancestors that have grounded humanity for thousands of years.
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.
A deathcare class rooted in love and devotion.
Love guides us when we are with others at the end of their life. When we hold their hands, stroke their hair, and whisper final words (even when they can no longer respond), it’s because we love them. This same love guides how we care for their body after they die: dressing and tending to them, blessing and laying them to rest with dignity.
Deathwork is, at its core, an act of love.
For generations, these practices were a natural, normal part of life. Carried out by families and loved ones, they were woven into the rhythm of communities - not outsourced to corporations. Like the home birth movement, the current resurgence in home funerals gives us the opportunity bring these traditions back into our hands and reclaim the compassionate, care-based ways of our ancestors.
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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.
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.
Pay-what-you-can
We hope that our sliding scale financial model meets you where you are and helps make this work accessible to everyone. Choose a tiered price that works for you and enter the discount code at checkout to adjust the price.
Pay $99 - No code needed, checkout as usual
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Pay $66 - ANCIENTLOVE66
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.