About this Event
Join us for our 6th Annual Death and Dying Conference for those caring for the living, the dying, and the dead.
This will be a day full of thoughtful, important conversations that help expand the ways we can provide care
Date: Saturday March 7th 2026
Time 11:00 am - 5:30 pm Conference
10am - 11am Social Time and Reource and Art perusing
Location: Tukwila Community Center
Topics:
11 - 11:30 Welcome
- Update on A Sacred Passing and A Place to Die
- Importance of supporting the things that operate outside of the systems
- Introduction of the Washington State Deathcare Coalition
A community rooted state wide coalition to support deathcare education, advocacy and policy. This coalition will be strongest when it is made of members from all sides of care.
11:30 - 12:30 Caring for Complicated Clients
Gain skills on learning how to close care realtionships with people are are causing harm. Ending a care realtionship can be difficult and Dr. G has experience and a skills offerings for attendees to glean from.
12:30 - 1:30 Panel: Education over Certification: The Ethics of Death Doula Certification
Health care is vanishing as are ways to meet many complicated care needs. Care has a long history of inaccessibility. As deathcare is monetized and capitalized upon, certifications are being created. A panel will discuss the possible outcomes of death doula certification.
1:30 - 2:30 Lunch Break - look at the groups tabling and vending
2:30 - 3:30 Shaping the Outcome: Bias in Charting
Medical charts are one side of the story and only from the perspective of medical providers. The power to shape outcomes lies between the words, commas, summaries and inrepretations of the person entering the notes. Together we will review chart notes for bias, racism, and misinformation. Words matter so much and we need to learn how to counter this bias for the people we are caring for.
3:00 - 4:00 VSED: It’s Not Always Plain and Simple
Listen to very different VSED stories and how advocacy made choice possible.
4:00 - 5:00 Centering Community Care in our movement work
There are so many roles for us to take up, in rebuilding our future. A future that we want to be in, thrive in, grow in and well... simply, exist in.
5:00 - 5:30 Closing
Cost sliding scale $75 -$200
Scale Guidance - here are some things to help you decide what to pay.
75 - Students, hard time making ends meet
125 - you get to take weekends away; you have health insurance; your needs are almost met
150 - You can pay your bills, you take vacation/time off, and are able to purchase some things you don't need, but want.
200+ you have a savings account and take time off a few times a year
This is an in-person event. Recordings will be shared at a later date. We are limiting in-person attendance and littles are welcome to join this year because of the space we have.
** If we get necessary sponsorship, we will have a hybrid conference.
View our website www.asacredpassing.org for updates and past conference information
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tukwila Community Center, 12424 42nd Avenue South, Tukwila, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 268.61