free gathering
Pet Remembrance Share Circle
Animals change us. Their deaths do too. Come honor both with us.
Join us for this hour-long gathering to remember your beloved animal companions, and observe Día de los Muertos for pets - a beautiful Mexican tradition that honors pet loss with the same reverence and remembrance as human loss. Witness and be witnessed in the depth of your grief and love.
October 27 from 5-6pm mountain time
held on Zoom
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
— Anatole France
This gathering recognizes that our relationships with animals are profound, life-changing, and worthy of ritual and remembrance. That their lives, just as their deaths, open new passages in us.
Bring your beloved furry, feathered, or scaly pets photo. Bring their favorite toy or collar. Bring yourself and your stories. We'll light candles, and celebrate the ways our beloved animals continue to be present in our lives.
Remember your animal companions in community with us
We can't wait to meet you all.
LIVE community share circle
October 27 from 5-6pm mountain time
Your hosts
Lauren Seeley
Lauren Seeley 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.
Lauren Carroll
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.
Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.