It’s an awkward thing for most of us, facing and accepting our mortality. But it’s not something we get to opt out of. As a death educator and coordinator of public programs at The Green-Wood Cemetery, and a death doula, Gabrielle Gatto thinks about death all the time. So today that’s what we’re going to talk about. We’ll get into what death education is and how it’s practiced at Green-Wood. We discuss trends in green burial, some of the cultural offerings at the cemetery and what its founders would think about all the activity there today.

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