Conscious Dying was created with the core belief that death is not something that just happens to us, but that it’s something that we do and can move through with deep presence. My main goal as a death doula is to support and empower individuals and their loved ones to expand their innate capacity to be with their dying. You deserve someone who will hold space with you with care, skill, and compassion through death, dying, and grief.

Welcome, I am honored you’re here.

Offerings

  • End of Life Planning

    End of life planning is not only a gift to ourselves but to those we love. For a lot of people, getting their affairs in order is part of creating a peaceful death for themselves but oftentimes it’s a source of uncertainty and stress as they aren’t sure where to begin. I am here to help! Through several one-on-one meetings I will support you in working through an End-of-Life Plan that is reflective of your priorities and values. Additionally, it’s never too early to start—anyone at any point can complete an End of Life Plan since they can be easily updated as your life continues to change and grow.

  • Community Grief and Healing

    Community grief and healing support spaces are powerful ways for collective witnessing, processing, and metabolizing of grief. Be it grief from personal death losses, communal losses, grief from systemic oppression, etc. The truth is that we are not meant to hold grief in isolation—it’s meant to be held collectively where folks can receive the support they need from their communities. I draw on my experience as a skilled facilitator, popular educator, and community organizer to hold gatherings in movement spaces as well as in other community spaces. Through an initial consult we can collaborate in creating the healing container that you need.

  • End of Life Support

    End-of-life support provided by a skilled and compassionate death doula supports and empowers individuals and their loved ones to expand their innate capacity to be with their dying. It allows more space for people to create a death and dying process that works for and is shaped by them, and it builds on the existent community of support that's crucial in contributing to a more peaceful and present death. Everyone's experience, context, and areas of need are different which means that end-of-life support will look different from person to person. Through a complimentary consultation we will talk through the type of support you need, and together we can co-create a support package.

Payment

To center the most impacted communities of systemic oppression and make all services and offerings accessible to anyone, I offer a sliding scale payment option with the average service price ranging from $0-3000 (prices may be outside of this range in extenuating circumstances). Together we will figure out a payment that honors and meets your current financial context.

Death Café Dates

Spring & Summer 2025

Death Cafe’s are a space to collectively practice curiosity and vulnerability in the exploration of death, dying, and grief.

The goal of these seasonal Death Cafe’s is to promote open discussion surrounding the topics of death and dying where people can stand in their full humanity and truly own and explore the all-encompassing beauty of the human experience. The spaces are always co-created, and often are no-agenda, casual discussions.

  • April 22, 6-8 PM at Tryst Coffeehouse

  • May 14, 6:30-8:30 PM at Wine & Butter Café & Market

  • June 10, 6-8PM at Tryst Coffeehouse

Washington, DC

Meet Veronica

Hi there! My name is Veronica and Conscious Dying is my love offering to community. I am a death worker, community organizer, yoga instructor, Mexican immigrant, and fellow grieving being. I move through the world grounded in core values of racial and economic justice, community, self-determination and informed decision making, love, hope, and curiosity. I am so glad and honored you’re here.

When I’m asked what brought me to death work, I often share that death work is rooted in both the personal and the communal AND that I didn’t choose death, it chose me. I’ve known death and grief for most of my life—in different seasons of life—and while my relationship to death and dying has been different through each loss, what stayed the same has been my ability to greet whatever has shown up each time; to face it head on even when it was unbearable; the awareness that there's no wrong way to grieve; and in recent years I have been able to lean into and nurture joy as fiercely as I have nurtured and sat with death and grief for most of my life.

The communal aspect comes in the understanding that death and dying are universal experiences and that everyone has a right to the support they want and need during such a devastating and transformative time. Yet, due to the many intersections of oppression my community and communities I love experience, they are disproportionately impacted by needless loss and grief on top of the natural death and dying processes, and oftentimes they don’t have access to the support they need through their experiences.

Accessible, skilled, and compassionate death and grief support is what community investment looks like. Conscious Dying was borne of the commitment to demystify and destigmatize a part of the life process that has been relegated to the darkest recesses of society. Death, dying, and grief have so much to teach us about witnessing our full humanity and living and dying well if we take the time to listen to what they have to say to us, and these incredibly nuanced experiences look different for each person. I bring the skills and knowledge I have acquired through each personal loss, through comprehensive death doula trainings and continued education, and through my ongoing death doula practice to my work, and I am here to witness and support as you embark on your own process.