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A Sacred Passing

A Sacred Passing offers death and dying education, planning, a plce to die and care.

Our Mission

A Sacred Passing's mission is to guide and assist people towards a more conscious dying experience, while honoring individual autonomy. A Sacred Passing offers death and dying education to individuals, community associations, and medical organizations. Together our organization educates, collaborates, and shares ways to be supportive educational companions. Core Values

The Crew within A Sacred Passing is made up of volunteers who work in community to create and sustain inclusivity in our classrooms and our resources. This includes building access focused, anti-racist, and gender-inclusive environments, educational materials, and community partnerships In community, we work to actively dismantle systems of power and oppression as they present in death and dying through education, care and advocacy.

12/16/2025

This Wednesday, December 17th is the last Grief & Care Under Capitalism of 2025!

Been telling yourself you want to make it to this relevant offering all year but capitalism keeps getting in the way?

Join Leilani in this online grieving space and participatory support group for anyone feeling exploited and exhausted by capitalism.

On Zoom, 7-9pm PT

Please note, there's a five minute grace period for folks entering late.

Direct link: bit.ly/griefandcare

12/13/2025

Magic begets magic.

This week we care for two guests, one choosing VSED and one choosing MAiD - both left this plane today. When the body transport company came for the second time- 12 hours apart, the two of us left at the house were very ready for sleep. The wonderful folks from CODA were as always, kind and soft with us… honoured our request for the use of shoe covers, no body bags and no quilts.

After they secured our guest in their vehicle, they came back to share one last good bye, for this time.
Looking up, we’re admiring the clear sky, after all these days and the planet that was above us, big and bright. As we all looked up not only did my night sky tell us Jupiter, but at the same time as I shared “Jupiter” a shooting star graced us with a sighting.

It felt like such a gift, a conformation in our slowness and moments of extra pause. A reminder that small magic exists in the big moments, and big magic exists in the smallest of moments.

All four of us smiled were able to not just acknowledge the gift but genuinely felt lucky to share the moment together.

That was what it felt like caring for our guests this week- thankful and lucky to share the moments of togetherness this week, the moments of connection, honesty and grace.

So thankful for the people we get to do this care with- family, friends, our volunteers, hospice employees, body care staff….. thank you thank you.

12/11/2025

The last Sunday Mourning Grief of this calendar year is this Sunday, December 14th at Asphodel. 9-10:30am

Usually in December we don’t hold a lot of monthly gatherings and focus on direct-care and rest but Sunday Mourning Grief is here for you if you need a soft place to be with other grievers.

What a year it’s been.

You can RSVP on our website:
asacredpassing.org

Or just come 🩶

12/08/2025

There are very few words that adequately describe the way my Scorpio heart feels after doing our end of the year report. So I’ll have to use a few- my heart feels full of hope in ways that have seemed far away, my heart feels a knowing that good humans outnumber those who are stuck on ick, my heart feels fluttery happy like dancing at a middle school dance with a crush, my heart trusts in community care and the change it makes in the world.
You’ll get all the details in our newsletter.

We are mighty for being so small. Last night a small handful of volunteers gathered to be celebrated, doted on and told how much they matter. (We missed those of you who couldn’t make it… SO MUCH 😩) The way everyone offers care- direct care, cleaning, gardening, watering plants, hosting events…. It all matters so much.

Thank you to for helping us treat our volunteers with a feast for the brain. Thank you to for being such a welcoming home, every time we walk though the doors.

Thank you thank you thank you.

12/02/2025

Tomorrow night - For all the Grievers, it would be lovely to share space.

We are in a constant state of collective grief. Grief doesn’t occur only when someone dies. Struggling under the weight of racial capitalism, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of violence and oppression that we navigate daily takes a toll on us that we are often not consciously aware of. When people feel inexplicably sad, burnt out, or tired as hell, “you need better self-care” is the response that is too often thrown back at us. We can work as hard as possible to care of ourselves, but there are limits to healing when we are inundated with trauma that we cannot control.

This support group is for people needing a space to talk with other folks who feel exploited and exhausted by capitalism. Most grief support groups are death-related, so we at A Sacred Passing decided to offer a space to grieve the other ways in which we struggle.

The Grief & Care Under Capitalism Support Group is a facilitated space with conversation directed by participants, offered virtually via Zoom on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month from 7-9pm PST.

The group is free, though donations to A Sacred Passing are always welcomed. This is a drop-in group, so you can join us once or several times, with no need to commit to multiple sessions. Zoom link goes directly to the zoom, no registration necessary. Eventbrite requires registration- it’s a good platform while it’s free.

Contact
Leilani Maxera
leilani@asacredpassing.org
leilanimaxera.com

First and Third Wednesday of every month
7-9pm PT

Please note: there is a five minute grace period for folks who join late but we do close the room at that point due to the vulnerable nature of this group

11/29/2025

Please join us TOMORROW
Sunday, November 30th
12-1:30pm Pacific on Zoom

Our last Community Education Webinar of 2025!

Sharing Knowledge & Space: A Sacred Passing’s Deathcare Residency Review

Join us to hear directly from the first participants of A Sacred Passing’s Deathcare Residency Program. Our residents will share about their time at Asphodel, our community deathcare home, lessons learned, and the offerings they each created for our community.

Register at no cost, to receive google link
bit.ly/deathcarewebinars

11/23/2025

Thank you thank you to almost 20 people who helped organize, rearrange, power wash, move heavy things and build things yesterday.

The house was a flurry with energy, conversation, memories and love. We had new volunteers, our mainstays, loves of previous guests, and my nephews 🥰 all doing what they could to help love on the house.

Thank you so much to everyone for showing up in the ways you did. If you have free time next weekend, we have more to do! Come on over next Saturday 10am - 2pm 🩶🩶

11/22/2025

We were so honoured to co-host the first annual remembrance gathering with

Thank you to all the tender hearts who came and shared about their person, who came out and shared their time, and energy.

This was our first year doing this event and we will hold this space of care and gathering for years to come. Thank you to all the lovely humans who made this day just what it was, most of all

Thank you for the beautiful wood burned logo for the memory book. Your time and skills are so appreciated, this book will grow to hold so many stories.

Sending love to all the people grieving their people and we hope to share space with you- may it be on zoom for a grief group or in person for our last death cafe and Sunday mourning of 2025

11/18/2025

Please join us on Sunday, November 30th from 12-1:30pm Pacific on Zoom for our last Community Education Webinar of 2025!

Sharing Knowledge & Space: A Sacred Passing’s Deathcare Residency Review

Join us to hear directly from the first participants of A Sacred Passing’s Deathcare Residency Program. Our residents will share about their time at Asphodel, our community deathcare home, lessons learned, and the offerings they each created for our community.

Register at no cost, to receive google link
bit.ly/deathcarewebinars

Address

Seattle, WA

Telephone

+12064940023

Website

https://www.asacredpassing.org/

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