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The Grief House

Death Care Collectives

Offering a wide range of financially and emotionally accessible death support to mortals and their beloveds.

Many of us have been raised in cultures that interact with death fearfully and combatively. If our socially reinforced habit is to pour energy into fighting and forestalling death it's easy to feel lost, defeated and resourceless when its inevitability becomes unavoidable. If we've been raised to fear death it can feel like we have no option but to surrender our participation in this transition to professionals.

 

This estrangement from death is new. Humans lived closely and well with death, everywhere there were humans, for most of our history on this planet. Finding a way back into community with death can feel tremendously stabilizing and empowering.

We can be at peace with death again. We can teach each other how. 

Portland Death Care Workers

Portland Death Care Workers

1 on 1 Practitioners in Portland

Atlanta Death Care Workers

Atlanta Death Care Workers

1 on 1 Practitioners in Atlanta

Death Centered Gatherings in Portland

Death Centered Gatherings in Portland

Gatherings That Explore And Support Death & Dying

Death-Centered Gatherings in Atlanta

Death-Centered Gatherings in Atlanta

Gatherings That Explore And Support Death & Dying

Death Services At The Portland House

Death Services At The Portland House

Support at The Grief House for People Who Are Dying & Their Families

PGH Death Care Collective Intake

If you feel unsure about the kind of support you're seeking and would like someone to talk with, we're happy to reach out. Let us know a little about your needs and we'll respond by email as quickly as possible.

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All grief is welcome here.

All are welcome here.

This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-affirming place.

The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline (1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988. If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

Finding Us

Our spaces are open for gatherings & designated open house hours. 

The Atlanta Grief House Nickerson Cottage at Legacy Park Decatur 500 S. Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030 Notes on finding us: GPS will take you to the center of Legacy Park. The Nickerson Cottage is a stone building with raised bed gardens on the south side of Legacy Park's campus. If you enter campus through the south entrance it will be the first cottage you come to. You can park in any of the surrounding lots. If coming in the evening you will see the string lights on our front porch. Nickerson Cottage is largely wheelchair accessible.

The Portland Grief House 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203 Notes on finding us: We are the green house on the corner of N Fessenden & N Allegheny Ave. Enter through the gate at the corner.

Wilderings, operating as The Grief House, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN  84-4336786) and all donations are tax deductible. 

The Grief House works on and serves communities on land that is the unceeded territory of the Muskogee, Cherokee and Creek peoples in Georgia and the Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Siletz peoples in Oregon.

 

We honor them as we live, work and serve grievers on these unceeded lands. 

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