Center for Conscious Living & Dying
- Swannanoa, North Carolina
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We are here to reimagine...
We are here to reimagine our relationship to death. We are creating a community that celebrates the sacredness and creativity of the human spirit, honors diversity, and dignifies the final stages of life.
Our Story
At age thirty-six, Ethan Sisser sat alone in a hospital bed with only weeks to live. The biomedical model of death and dying did not offer the experience he yearned for, so he put out an online request to find a community to support his vision. I became involved initially as his physician and then as his death doula.
As Ethan took his final breaths, I knew it was time to embark on a journey that ...
At age thirty-six, Ethan Sisser sat alone in a hospital bed with only weeks to live. The biomedical model of death and dying did not offer the experience he yearned for, so he put out an online request to find a community to support his vision. I became involved initially as his physician and then as his death doula.
As Ethan took his final breaths, I knew it was time to embark on a journey that had long called to me. What emerged was the Center for Conscious Living & Dying, a non-profit, offering safe, community-supported end-of-life care, free of charge for the dying, as well as educational offerings and programs to facilitate a collective shift in our society toward death, dying, and grief.
I created the Center for Conscious Living & Dying in hopes of replicating what Ethan offered: an invitation to remember we are all worthy of a loving death.
At age thirty-six, Ethan Sisser sat alone in a hospital bed with only weeks to live. The biomedical model of death and dying did not offer the experience he yearned for, so he put out an online request to find a community to support his vision. I became involved initially as his physician and then as his death doula.
As Ethan took his final breaths, I knew it was time to embark on a journey that had long called to me. What emerged was the Center for Conscious Living & Dying, a non-profit, offering safe, community-supported end-of-life care, free of charge for the dying, as well as educational offerings and programs to facilitate a collective shift in our society toward death, dying, and grief.
I created the Center for Conscious Living & Dying in hopes of replicating what Ethan offered: an invitation to remember we are all worthy of a loving death.
