How Death Teaches Us to Live; Lee Warren
RSS Feed Lee Warren is a death and tantra educator, somatic guide, writer, mystic, community builder, and author of *Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care*. With approximately 30 years of community-living experience, her work explores death education, grief literacy, conscious dying, mindfulness, end-of-life planning, and re-villaging. Lee lived at Earthaven Ecovillage near Asheville, North Carolina, where community-led vigils, green burials, home funerals, and grieving practices shaped her approach to helping people embrace mortality and awaken to greater aliveness.
Contact Info- Website: [QueenOfDeath.org](https://QueenOfDeath.org)
- Promo / Offer: Lee’s fully online, 12-week Preparing for Death course
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Effect on Emotions- “Mindfulness has helped me learn to ride the waves.”
- It helps me experience strong emotions without repressing or minimizing them.
- It also keeps me from accelerating, exaggerating, or accentuating those emotions.
- “Every exhale is a death. Every letting go is a death.”
- “I really love the biological breath, which is letting the breath breathe me.”
- I allow the breath to arrive wherever, however, and at whatever pace it wants, helping me open and enter a flow state.
- Book: *Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care* by Lee Warren
- Book: *Die Wise* by Stephen Jenkinson
- Book: *Trembling Still* by Stephen Jenkinson
- Book: *Being Mortal* by Atul Gawande
- Website: QueenOfDeath.org
- Website: Global Ecovillage Network
- Website: *Coming Home* YouTube channel
- Program: Lee Warren’s 12-week Preparing for Death course
- Program: Five Wishes end-of-life planning template
- Program: Personal death practice and daily mortality contemplation
- Lee described othering as the root of bullying: treating another person as fundamentally separate or unacceptable.
- A presentation associated with Daniel Foor’s ancestral medicine work about fat people’s experiences helped her recognize how people project discomfort and their shadows onto marginalized bodies.
- She connected this insight to death: people can attempt to “other” many groups and experiences, but no one can ultimately escape or other the death process.