About Dying Together:
In a world where death is medicalized, sanitized, isolated, and outsourced, Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care introduces the radical notion that mortality is a gift—and a teacher.
Author Lee Warren, a cultural pioneer and leading voice in the conscious dying movement, draws from three decades of ecovillage living, where six significant deaths over two years changed the landscape of their collective.
Through firsthand accounts, embodied exercises, and a community-building toolkit, Dying Together offers a visionary yet grounded approach that returns death to the center of our personal and collective lives—and guides us to belong to each other in the tenderness of loss and grief.
Lee Warren is a death educator, end-of-life preparation guide, and somatic practitioner.
She is a cultural pioneer and leading voice in reimagining intimacy with death as a pathway to ecstatic aliveness.
With over 30 years of experience living in intentional, land-based communities, Lee draws deeply from life at Earthaven Ecovillage in Southern Appalachia where she co-created regenerative systems for home-building, food production, renewable energy, and progressive self-governance.
Immersed in exploring more reverent ways to live, Lee also participated in collective approaches to death care, gaining firsthand knowledge of caregiving in a cooperative context, including at-home death care, home funerals, green burials, and community-based grief rituals.
Her work bridges the practical and the mystical, weaving embodiment, contemplative inquiry, and culture repair into a recipe for empowered living and dying.
Lee is the founder of Reclaiming Wisdom and Queen-of-Death.org, platforms offering education and resources. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
