The Voices &
Faces of La Mort
We are curious humans seeking wholeness, and we are waiting for you.
Lauren
Our CEO
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
Belle
Our CVO
Belle Augusta, co-founder of La Mort, is an Oregon-born, NYC-based storyteller, photographer, and multidimensional artist with a knack for digital systems, a passion for helping new voices and visionaries shape their presence in our collective digital spaces, and a drive to build new systems in society that contribute to (rather than deplete) the whole of humanity.
A co-founder of La Mort (and childhood best friend of Lauren), she has been dreaming of creating this space - where we might nurture one another, listen deeply, and co-create the yet-to-be-imagined worlds - since she was little. She is here to support seekers, helpers, artists, lovers, and change-makers in bringing into being their unique modes of service.
A 3/5 Splenic Projector and seasoned facilitator in business development, web design, branding, marketing, and creative direction, she spent years directing the communications department of a prestigious Waldorf school (where she adopted a threefold approach - head, heart, and hands - to her work in the world) before stepping fully into her creative calling. With over 20 years in the NYC art and design space, a decade building Web2 and Web3 ecosystems, and a photography career spanning portraiture, high fashion, and fine art, she brings a richness of experience to her work today. “She’s like my intuitive artsy friend, who can also code.”
Belle comes from a lineage of artists and works from the viewpoint that art - both the creation of and experience of - is essential to a healthy society. She is the mother to three children who she is raising in New York City, her favorite place in the world.
Our Digital Infrastructure Artist
McKenzie
McKenzie Victoria is the creative operations heart behind La Mort's digital experience - weaving together words, systems, and creative vision behind the scenes to maintain the seamless online infrastructure that makes our community possible. Working within Belle's beautiful brand foundation, she draws from her own artistic wellspring to create digital experiences that feel warm, distinctive, and deeply intentional.
She finds joy in thinking up innovative ways to make ambitious ideas real, and is deep in the throes of a lifelong love affair with real, human stories. This combination drives her to create technically beautiful offerings that help people think more honestly, feel more viscerally, question generously, and get to the heart of things. One day, she will launch a magazine in this spirit.
She has found a creative home in La Mort, a place where she gets to grow into more of herself creatively - bit by bit, piece by piece. Her inner journalist. Her inner artist. Her inner teacher. Her inner philosopher. She, along with her best friends (who also happen to be her mother and her ginger cat), dream of someday having a "Practical Magic" house by the sea and becoming wise, gray-haired old ladies: growing wild gardens, writing love letters, and finding beauty in the ordinary.
Our Digital Dreamweaver
Morgan
Morgan Everitt is a death doula and multidisciplinary artist based in the Pennsylvania countryside. Her twin passions—art and deathwork—have been constant threads throughout her life.
With a master’s degree in acting from NYU, Morgan built a career performing on and off Broadway while simultaneously working as a professional caregiver for the elderly. Her journey into deathwork began after the loss of her mother in 2016, sparking a profound calling to support others and help carry them through life's final journey.
Morgan’s training began at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and expanded to include programs with Deathwives, INELDA, and Quality of Life Care. She served as a volunteer on the palliative care floor at Mt. Sinai, earned her proficiency badge from NEDA, and is an active member of the Philly End of Life Doula Collective. She now runs her own private practice, Heron’s Flight: Morgan’s End of Life Care, serving the Bucks County, PA, community.
Morgan’s artistic practice complements her deathwork. Her goal is to encourage empathy and ease isolation through creation. Her internationally awarded short film, Morgan and the Medium, explores the afterlife while bringing to light the many complexities of grief. She continues to create art when she is not helping individuals and families at the end of life and has a dream of one day opening an Omega Home to provide even greater support to her area.
Sarah
Our Death Pals Director
Sarah is a self-proclaimed dirt child based in Denver, Colorado. When she is not fraternizing with bugs, feeding squirrels, or hugging trees, she is making greeting cards, painting crabs, writing letters, and contemplating the tiny threads of magic that bind the universe together. Her mission is to create the kinds of things that get nestled into shoebox portals to past lives, devoured by underbed voids, befriended by dust bunnies, and lost to time. Maybe to be found by an unsuspecting relative or historical adventurer who will casually raise an eyebrow in awe or wonder. Maybe to feed the beloved critters of detritus and decay. Maybe a secret third thing. Occasionally, she cosplays as a respectable businesswoman who definitely enjoys sitting in meetings that could have been emails.
Collective Educators
Collective Educators
Dreamers
Dreamers
Course Co-Creators
Course Co-Creators
The Magical
Lauren
Lauren Seeley is the co-creator of: La Mort’s altar crafting classes, Grief& conversation series, and the Intuitive Death Doula (within the La Mort / L’Amour membership)
She is an artist, death and grief doula, and death educator whose work weaves together death literacy, spiritual practice, and end-of-life care. Her interests and research span the tender edges of both human and pet end-of-life care, LGBTQIA+ and trans-centered deathwork, memory care, ritual and ceremony, and the many ways we honor the dead through funerary and disposition practices. Lauren currently works at a funeral home in Brooklyn, NY, where she holds space for the living and the dead, and facilitates the Silent Book Club of Death, Brooklyn’s quiet little refuge for readers who aren’t afraid to sit with the big questions.
The Mystical
Morgan
Morgan Fava is the co-creator of: Make it Sacred, Ceremonial Samsara, and the Anatomy of Sorrow
With over a decade of study in the realms of death, dying, and grief, Morgan has journeyed through significant loss and transformation in her own life. As a certified death doula, energy healer, Akashic record practitioner, and ceremonialist, she is dedicated to supporting individuals and families through the sacred transition of death.
In her work, she provides compassionate guidance and education, helping to create a more peaceful and serene end-of-life experience.
I honor the wishes of the dying, advocate for at-home deaths, and facilitate meaningful vigils that celebrate life. My mission is to ensure that every individual feels supported and empowered on this profound journey, embracing the fullness of their experience with grace and dignity.
Learn more about Morgan’s additional offerings here.
The Brilliant
Dr. Melissa
Dr. Melissa Delizia, MSW, LSW, DSW (she/they) is the co-creator of: Death Coach, and Grieving Queer
They are a death doula, educator, professional coach and social worker whose work lives at the intersection of sacred care, transformative education, and social justice. With a Doctorate in Social Work and certifications in grief companionship, deathcare, and sacred ceremony, Melissa brings both clinical insight and spiritual depth to their offerings.
Their practice is rooted in ancestral connection, mediumship, and energy work, with a focus on holding space for queer and trans individuals navigating death, dying, and grief. Melissa approaches this work with reverence, tending to the liminal with embodied presence and a belief in the healing power of collective care and ritual.
As an educator and adjunct professor, they are dedicated to reshaping how death is taught and understood—centering marginalized experiences, challenging systems of harm, and cultivating spaces where grief and identity are honored in all their complexity. Whether teaching or learning, Melissa holds a deep commitment to equitable deathwork and heart-centered education.
Learn more about Melissa’s other offerings here.