Designing your own gravestone and epitaph is a form of autobiography. How do you sum up your life in a single glance? What message do you want so durably created?

Join us at 10 AM, August 31st, for a FREE workshop and death awareness activity at Congressional Cemetery.

Bring your curious self, any writing implement and paper you prefer, and walking shoes for visiting graves on uneven ground. Special credit for bringing quill and ink on parchment.

Our Death Doula in Residence, Laura Lyster-Mensh, will help us consider what information and imagery we wish to leave behind. We will visit a few graves in the cemetery for inspiration. We will also consider types of stone, aesthetic preferences, and how memorial styles evolve over time.

Most of all, we will practice thinking of ourselves as mortals and imagine what meaning and legacy matter most to us when we are no longer here to speak or edit it.

No prior knowledge or artistic talent is required—just a willingness to reflect on ourselves and the memories we want to craft with our lives.

Any questions? Email Laura at deathdoula@congressionalcemetery.org

RSVP for this event HERE!

Donations to our foundation support this free program. The suggested donation for our Death Dialogues gatherings is $5, but more generous support gives more people access to these programs.

For more information on our Death Dialogue programming, click HERE