In this class we will discuss the history of community death care and the landscape of the modern death industry, touch on the legal scope of home funerals in Oregon and work together to do a brief live demo of what it looks like to care for our loved ones at home after death.

Participants will have the chance to do some hands on practice with a (living) volunteer, engage in discussion about reclaiming ancestral death traditions ethically, learn about how to incorporate plants into death care and more.

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Meet Your Facilitator

Mackenzie Ní Flainn (she/they) is a Mama, health justice activist, abolitionist, harm reductionist, full spectrum birth advocate, student midwife, community herbalist, street medic, and self-defense instructor living in Oregon on the occupied territory of the Kalapuya ilahi. Mackenzie started training as a death worker after suffering two pregnancy losses and has continued to deepen the work in Irish death tradition, home funeral facilitation, and Keening. Now, Mackenzie is completing her graduate work in medical anthropology at UO, where she studies medicine as a site of resistance in America.