DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

Death is sacred. There is untold privilege in caring for someone at the end of their life and through their final transition. In death, there is beauty, dignity, community, identity, agency.

 

Deathcare is hard work, and terrifying for many. Supporting a loved one through the end of their life can be daunting. Because death is an act of solidarity, remembering, and love, deathcare should be an act of resistance when erasure of identity is codified into unjust law. It should be gentle when life has already been violent. It should be a proclamation of agency and autonomy when bodily protections are violated. Everyone should have access to appropriate deathcare, not just those whose identities are favored by the hegemony.

 

Capitalism, racism, transphobia, xenophobia, and all systemic and cultural forms of cruelty and erasure should be vacant from deathcare. Grief should not be an opportunity for profit or eradication.

 

Because we believe in the power and sanctity of mutual aid, direct action, and community, Ohio Deathcare Collective strives to provide trauma-informed, intersectional, affirming, spiritual-but-not-religious care for loved ones and their families at the end of life.