Cait's Death Care Shop

Cait’s (she/her) personal experience with the death by suicide of her best friend, followed two months later by her grandfather’s death, is exactly what propelled her curiosity and care into the vast space of grief, death, and suicide. Through that journey, years after, Cait began volunteering with her local hospice and served in her community. During that time she chose to take an end-of-life doula course and continue expanding her theory. A passion for serving folks in the death space developed, deeply. By 2020, the pandemic forced the closure of her in-person business and her full attention turned to supporting folks with death care, in the virtual space, knowing that’s where many people go to access support + education. Cait’s journey has led her into different avenues of death work from sitting at the bedside of those actively dying, to cleaning out homes after a death, to educating hospice teams on what death doulas are, to guiding folks on advance directive creation, to helping suicide loss survivors and folks living with suicidality; truly, the space is vast. Currently, Cait offers digital tools for death and life on her resource site: awarecarelibrary and value-driven education via Instagram and Tik Tok, @cait.deatheducation. Cait hosts a membership specific to suicide care and conversations, the Aware Care Library, where folks gain access to a library of digital suicide-specific resources and receive new content each month, as well as a members-only Discord and access to peer spaces. Cait is proficient with and a member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, proficient with the Home Funeral Alliance, and is passionate about participating in continuing education on a vast array of topics in death care, as death is a vast space. Cait is a Virgo, a mother to two teens, a bibliophile, and loves finding quiet in the forests and throughout nature.