“Any book about dying in which dying people might actually recognize their labor, their heartbreak, their fears, is a useful book, for them and for those who love them. And any book that extends that death wisdom to the wider culture is a called-for book. This is one of those.”

Stephen Jenkinson

Author of Die Wise and Trembling, Still.

“Dying Together is a luminous invitation to restore the communal practices of care, grief, and reverence that once held us through life’s final threshold. Through story, practice, and lived wisdom, Lee Warren shows us how accompanying one another through dying, grief, and remembrance can awaken a deeper intimacy with life itself. Her reflections illuminate how tending those who are dying together deepens our shared humanity.”

Aditi Sethi, MD

Founder and Executive Director & Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living & Dying

“Lee Warren brings a compassionate and experienced lens to the tender yet practical work of community-based death care. Dying Together is a much-needed book that reminds us how to heal and share both our lives and deaths—not as isolated individuals, but as neighbors helping neighbors.”

Dr. Mallory McDuff

Author of Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Love

“Wisdom traditions around the world turn to death as a potent ally for living well. In this inspired and accessible guidebook, Lee Warren helps us to prepare for our own return and to assist those we love in becoming healed and vibrant ancestors.”

Daniel Foor, Ph.D.,

Author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

“Dying Together generously integrates thirty years of community practice and reflection. Whether you are new to community death care or a seasoned educator, this book offers wisdom to deepen your journey and support your work. It is a valuable ally—and a top-shelf resource.”

Patrick Davis, MA

Hospice Chaplin & Emberlight: CCLD Community Education Director

“Dying Together is a deeply personal and compassionate offering drawn from decades of lived experience. Lee gently guides us to the grace and clarity that emerge from full presence with death and dying. Her wisdom-filled prose invites a mystical journey that is grounded, loving, and soulful.”

Amrita Grace

Author of Reclaiming Aphrodite and Dancing with Breast Cancer

“This book is a welcome and necessary contribution to a culture that still is mostly asleep to the problem of how we treat our dying and dead. The best possible criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. Thanks to Lee for helping us get beyond “business as usual,” and see what it actually looks like when a community takes their dying and dead into their own caring hands.”

Katherine Savage

Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide, and Edu-culturalist.

“Lee Warren leads us on a journey inspired by her personal experiences of community death care. The practical information and heartfelt stories inform us as individuals and as a community of humans in the ways of life, death, and grief. This book is a much-needed guide on the path of reclaiming community death care.”

Trish Rux, RN

End-of-Life Doula

“Dying Together reminds us that we have an opportunity to hold and be held. The season of our dying is the greatest truth serum I’ve ever known—for those who are dying and those who love and serve them. It is in our at-one-ment that we remember the way.”

Gregory Lathrop

Crossing Fire Chief/ Elder Council at Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living and Dying

“Dying Together is an invaluable resource to help us individually and collectively wrestle with—and celebrate—the great mystery of death. Lee Warren has devoted her life to exploring and pioneering cultural change, and I have no doubt this book will influence the evolutionary trajectory of how our culture meets dying as a sacred passage. May we take this gift into our hearts and souls.”

Steve Torma

Earthaven Ecovillage Elder & Former President, Nonviolent Communication Educator and Lifelong Activist

“This is the book I wished I had when my partner was dying. Full of mystery and grace, Dying Together has expanded my imagination around what death can be, both personally and collectively. It has radically changed how I will prepare for my own death as well as the ways that I will show up for others who are dying in my community.”

Susan Patrice

Community Arts Director, Makers Circle 

“I so wish I’d had this book while caring for my husband as he was dying. It was during the pandemic, and I was completely isolated and alone. Lee Warren draws from a lifetime of community living and offers us a guide toward a more compassionate and connected experience around death and dying.”

Annice Brown

Business Consultant and Strategic Advisor

“In a time when death has become hidden and medicalized, Lee Warren invites us to remember an older human truth: that dying, like living, belongs in community. Drawing from lived experience at Earthaven Ecovillage, Dying Together offers a powerful vision for reclaiming death as a shared rite of passage—one that reconnects us to each other and to life itself.”

Cynthia Tina

Author of Intentional Community

“More than ever, people are remembering the importance of village life and death as a sacred rite of passage—essential elements that restore meaning to our lives. Drawing on decades of experience walking with both, Lee Warren offers a grounded and important guide for those called to steward this collective return. This is a book for our times.”

Hannah Fowler

Founder, School of the Red Skywalker

“I have known Lee Warren for nearly 20 years and have watched her live what she writes about in this book. She speaks from direct experience—walking alongside others in death, in community, and in the practical realities of end-of-life preparation. Having taken and co-facilitated classes with her, I know her to be deeply sincere in her care. Dying Together is a beautiful expression of her life’s work and a gift for these times.”

Mary Lane

Author of Divine Nourishment; Co-author of Plant Medicine for End-of-Life Care

“Lee Warren’s Dying Together is a seminal manifesto for how I choose to meet my own death. With humor, gentleness, and clarity, she shows us how to create nested circles of care and invite community into dying, death, and grief in ways that allow everyone involved to become ‘entrained, cohesive, and coherent.’ In my decades of working with the dying, I have seen how, when death is well supported by loved ones, the process transforms everyone involved. Lee’s book shows us how.”

Melody LeBaron

Author of Transforming Death

“Lee Warren is a fellow grower and intentional community member, and I recognize her worldview. Dying Together is an unflinching and valuable book, weaving philosophy, poetry, practical guidance, stories, and lived experience. She shows us how to shape our final chapter based on our own unique character, how grieving with others deepens our ability to embrace life, and how bringing a group together to give birth to a death bonds us more closely.”

Pam Dawling

Author of Sustainable Market Farming; longtime member, Twin Oaks Community

“We all come in on the breath. We all go out on the breath. Thank you, Lee, for creating Dying Together, a toolkit and communal blueprint rooted in love and care—one that midwives us through the sacred mystery of death, together with those we love.”

Keri Evjy

Founder of Healing Roots Design; Author of Regenerative Life Design Playbook

“My life work has been gathering people to heal in community. So this vision of dying at home, held within a circle—a community nest—brought me to tears. Yes, please! This is holy, wondrous work.”

David Cates

“Lee’s book takes the form of prose, yet I was sure I was reading poetry. The language soars—challenging, stimulating, transforming, and enriching. This book is clearly born of long and deep experience, from a woman whose life has courageously expanded to meet death in community while staying fiercely open to all emotions.”

Elana Kann

Urban Community Developer, Writer, and Sculptor

“In Dying Together, Lee Warren draws on personal loss to explore what becomes possible when we reject an ‘impoverished view of death.’ By reframing mortality—our own and that of those we love—as an opportunity to strengthen community and deepen our bonds with one another, she offers a remarkably comforting embrace of one of life’s great mysteries.”

Patricia Kyritsi Howell

Author of Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians

“Death is a subject that most of us prefer to sweep under life’s rug until the inevitable is upon us. Lee Warren’s Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care challenges us instead to see the end of life as a rich opportunity to live more fully, and to strengthen our bonds with those we love. Warren urges us to reframe death as “an active surrender,” without glossing over the reality of grief and loss. She guides us toward accepting and even thriving amid the uncertainty that is life. Weaving together hard-won practical experience with deep reflection, she has birthed a brave, important, and wonderful book. Essential reading for anyone who has or will cease to exist in our bodily form–that is, for each and every one of us.”

Andrew Lawler

Author of The Secret Token and Under Jerusalem

“Lee Warren’s Dying Together is essential on many levels—offering insight through intimate, firsthand stories, inspiration for integrating a community-based approach to death, practical guidance for before and after death, and deep reflection on the mysteries of mortality. As a resident of Earthaven Ecovillage for over 20 years, I am honored that our shared experiences helped form the foundation of this important book.”

Martha H. Harris

Earthaven Ecovillage

“Having known her for nearly two decades, I can say with confidence that Lee Warren is uniquely skilled at receiving and sharing guidance in transformational threshold realms, and that her work arises from a genuine, embodied calling. Her drive to synthesize and voice what she has learned is rooted in a deep understanding of what it means to become more fully and consciously human. Dying Together is a luminous guide—a breadcrumb on the path back to ourselves.”

Sara Carter

Home Funeral Practitioner

“Dying Together fills a needed gap in the conscious death and dying literature of our time. Deeply informed by a series of deaths in her ecovillage community in a short span of years, Lee Warren’s offering reveals a depth and breadth of experience, both in the arena of deathcare and in that of working within a cooperative community to affect a life- and death-affirming end-of-life experience. It leaves readers with the conviction that “we can do this.”

Elizabeth Graves, PhD, LCMHCS, CT (Thanatologist)

Death Doula, Certified Grief Specialist

“I’ve come to deeply respect the power of dying in community through my work with Lee Warren, and have witnessed firsthand the deepening bonds that form among those who share in end-of-life care. Death can become ecstatic when all that remains is presence and love—where grief is shared and honored. Lee eloquently reveals death’s central, unifying role and how dying can open luminous realms that benefit all who are present.”

Evalena Rose

Therapist and Tantra Educator

“Once in a while, a rare book comes along that takes my breath away, revealing a truth so profound that it allows me to see life from an entirely new perspective. Death is the ultimate equalizer, bringing the sober realization that we are all on the same destined path. In Dying Together, Lee Warren beautifully articulates—with depth and nuance—how we, as a community, can consciously and soulfully embrace death while fully living.”

Joseph Aldo, PhD

Author, Healer, and Spiritual Mentor

“The Art of Dying Together dances between the truth that dying is, at the last, a solo activity, and the vibrant possibility that it can be held collectively, easing the journey for everyone and giving us all a glimpse into the sacred.”

Yana Ludwig

Poet; Cooperative Culture Educator and Consultant; Author of Building Belonging

“There are people who, from the first moment I experience their brilliance and wisdom, immediately become “Lifers.” I’ll read and watch anything that they create. That’s how it was for me with Lee Warren. My lens on life, and the way I move through and experience it, were transformed the moment I read her brilliance for the first time. The alchemy and integration of Lee’s extraordinary perspective and Wisdom have been shaped by the breadth of her life experiences, the depth of her compassionate soul, and the ways in which she passionately lives Life. And, embraces Death. Lee has become a deeply trusted guide, mentor, mirror, muse and collaborator, immeasurably illuminating and amplifying my ability to fully wrap my arms around Life, by becoming profoundly more intimate with Death.”

Jonathan Pillot

Founder, UnLabelMe & UnLabel Death

“Lee Warren has achieved what few authors on this topic manage to do. In Dying Together, she honors and educates about the sacred space of liminality that the dying process offers while, with clarity, wisdom, and seasoned insight, sharing practical ways to bring death care into our families and communities. Her writing arises from a deep well of personal, spiritual, and community practice. This book belongs in every home, library, school, and place of worship.”

Kat Maier

Clinical Herbalist and Award-Winning Author of Energetic Herbalism

“In Dying Together, we begin to see, with wider and wilder eyes, the medicine in death. Lee invites us into a deeper intimacy with death—one that is central to re-humanizing and resourcing the village. What if death could be an initiation of grace, belonging, deep heart, embodiment, consciousness, grief, acceptance, and audacious humility? Thank you, Death.”

Keri Evjy

Founder of Healing Roots Design; Author of Regenerative Life Design Playbook

“At a time when isolation seems to be growing through the cascade of changes at the surface of our lives, there rises in many of us a deeper longing for real and vulnerable connection — both in our living and in our dying. In these pages, Lee Warren speaks to that longing from inside her own experience of its fulfillment — in the tender, shared terrain of living with the dying in community.

She reminds us of what humans once knew: that death can be a shared passage, transformative not only for the one departing, but for every person in the circle supporting them. Her poetic and intimate prose draws us into that circle, and carries us through visionary yet deeply remembered possibilities and practices. From the moment her words touch our hearts, we are changed, both in how we live and how we will die.”

Kim Rosen

Author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words

“Community deathcare is the answer to our impending hospice crisis, and this book offers a compellingly original path forward.”

Scott Kirschenbaum

Director of “The Last Ecstatic Days”

“Few people look under the rug. Lee Warren is one of them. It takes courage to face death and the intelligence to recognize that we all must do so, sooner or later—and Lee has plenty of both. This book invites us to walk toward death holding hands, rather than run from it alone. Why choose to stay afraid?”

Alan Muskat

Author of Coming Home: Finding Our True Nature

“Weaving together questions, reflections, and stories from beloved teachers and friends and grounded in personal experience, this book offers a bold exploration of dying in community.”

Beck Ballantine, MD

“With this book Lee Warren is gifting us all a bundle of deep heart, ritual experience and indigenous soulfulness. The storied poetics of these pages belong on your altar, just as much as on your bookshelf. Take this book in, integrate it, and weave its wisdom into your life during those times that matter most. Death, grief, intimacy, community, care –this is a field guide to the stuff that makes us truly human. Thanks Lee for helping us court the Great Remembering!”

Frank Salzano

Medicine of the Starry Heavens

“Weaving a compelling blend of practical advice, personal experience, history, literature and ancient ways of knowing, Lee Warren invites us to explore the art of dying as an essential element of cultivating healthy community.”

Laura Lengnick

Cultivating Resilience, LLC

“We live in a time where, under the best of circumstances, many of us die alone; untended, frightened, isolated and disconnected from the web of community. Yet death is a community event, intimate and witnessed when it happens at its most human. Lee’s work with death, community and the gift of mortality is life work. She brings the normalcy of death and grief into the very places it must be held…in village. Dying Together is a must for those who wish to reclaim our precious grief and death for vibrant and authentic living.”

Victor Warring

Somatic Sexuality ReWilder & Grief-Eros Ritualist

“Lee Warren provides a rich and detailed map for village-based approaches to dying, encouraging each of us to find our own path. Dying Together is both inspiring and empowering—an insightful and practical invitation to reflect, prepare, and return death to our own hands.”

Jude Lally

Founder of Reclaiming Keening