KAT
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KAT RIST ⛤
death doula, educator, & grave tending professional
Let’s Create a More Honest Relationship with Death.
Deathcraft is a space for death-positive education, reflective writing, and hands-on care—including grave tending and remembrance practices—supporting more intentional, informed, and compassionate relationships with death, grief, and legacy.
Because caring for the dead is also a way of caring for the living.
Deathcraft exists to make conversations about death, dying, and remembrance feel less frightening and more human.
Through writing, education, and gentle hands-on practices, this space invites a slower, more intentional way of relating to death—one grounded in care rather than avoidance.
Whether you are tending to a loved one’s grave, planning ahead, navigating loss, or simply learning how to be with death more honestly, you are welcome here.
✔ Death-positive and non-judgmental
✔ Trauma-informed and consent-centered
✔ Grounded in sacred deathcare and real-world experience
What you’ll find here:
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DEATH-POSITIVE WRITING & EDUCATION
Essays, guides, and reflections on mortality, grief, ritual, legacy, and conscious end-of-life care.
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GRAVE TENDING & REMEMBRANCE CARE
Reverent care for burial sites, including cleaning, seasonal teending, offerings, and intentional acts of remembrance—performed with respect for the dead, the land, and the families connected to them.
This work may be especially meaningful for those who are distant, disabled, grieving, or unable to tend a grave themselves.
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GENTLE GUIDANCE & PREPARATION
Supportive information around home funerals, after-death care, and advance planning—shared without urgency or fear-based framing.
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COMMUNITY & CONVERSATION
An invitation into more open dialogue about death, grief, and remembrance through shared stories and learning.
A grounded, ethical approach to deathcare
Deathcraft is informed by hands-on experience in sacred deathcare, end-of-life companionship, and death education. This work honors both the practical realities of caring for the dead and the emotional, spiritual, and cultural dimensions that surround it.
Grave tending is approached not as maintenance, but as a form of relationship—one that acknowledges ongoing bonds between the living, the dead, and the land.
✔ Experience in compassionate end-of-life presence
✔ Respect for diverse beliefs and traditions
✔ Consent-based, trauma-informed care
✔ Clear boundaries and ethical practice
From The Deathcraft Journal
The journal holds reflections on death, grief, ritual, and remembrance—including the meaning of tending graves and maintaining relationships with the dead.
Some topics include:
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The holidays often bring conversations about memory, aging, and change—making them a natural moment to talk about death and end-of-life wishes. This guide offers practical, compassionate ways to start death-positive conversations with loved ones during the holidays, focusing on curiosity, values, and care rather than fear or urgency.