A Discussion with Michelle Acciavatti
Thursday November 9
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Michelle Acciavatti (she/her) is a writer, thinker, funeral director, and End of Life Specialist living in central Vermont. She is passionate about discovering the role a funeral director can play in building community resources for people facing the end of life. Michelle has trained as a funeral director, advance care planner, end of life doula, home funeral guide, green burial advocate, neuroscientist, and ethicist. She has practiced death work with people of all ages, including those dealing with death during pregnancy, as well as with community organizations and institutions and in setting as varied as the funeral home, Boston Children’s Hospital, and people’s own homes. She founded Ending Well to provide personalized support as people plan, prepare and experience their own good death from the earliest stages of thinking about death, through the dying process and disposition. She is a subject matter expert in a number of training programs and through various groups around the world including the Collective for Radical Death Studies, a group founded with the mission to radicalize and decolonize the way we think and talk about death. She is the co-founder of Green Burial Vermont a non-profit dedicated educating individuals, communities, and cemeteries in Vermont about socially and environmentally responsible burial practices. Michelle is proud to be the first funeral director in the state of Vermont to offer specific green burial counseling, packages, and products to people interested in green burial through the funeral home where she works.