The Piedmont Death Collective (PDC) is a network of death workers, grief tenders, and creatives.

The PDC provides a safe container where imagination and curiosity are encouraged to extend beyond the status quo.

We aim to provide education and resources for caregivers, grievers, and those at the end of life. Our work remains fluid, under an umbrella of hope and compassion, to reclaim how we care for the dying, bringing death and grief literacy and advocacy to the community.

We believe death and grief work is community care, a shared responsibility, and a moral obligation. It is a political act. Our offerings and services are open to everyone.

We believe community care is whole-person, every-person care. We recognize what we do not know and welcome learning from others.

We honor and tend to the macro death—the transition of a soul leaving this human experience—and the micro deaths, which we experience daily, such as the change of seasons, loss of a job, the ending of a relationship, and aging. We welcome and honor the messiness and the beauty of the cycle of regeneration, birth, and death. We foster a space that allows authenticity, vulnerability, and agency.

We recognize there is a constant undercurrent of grief we often neglect. Allowing ourselves to go deep into the waters of sorrow, we experience the alchemic power of the pain and loss we all experience in human life. The PDC provides a safe and sacred space for sharing our grief.