Previous Webinars

This is an educational offering, not intended to be medical advice whatsoever.  Lashanna is not a medical practitioner, but rather a deathcare practitioner and specifically in the lane of community care.  This VSED webinar has been created to offer and share learnings from hands on care of VSED private clients and guests of A Place to Die.  These offerings are intended to be helpful, they are intended to be shared bits of learned information for people who have questions about how a VSED process can look.  Every single VSED is different, there is no blue print.

In this conversation, we will explore neurodiversity and deathcare. Bring your wonder and curiosity as we learn together about how to better tend to the needs of our neurodiverse loved ones. We'll discuss supporting grief, sensory accommodations, communication needs, and more. 

Join a discussion about medical aid in dying and ways to provide non-medical support. Lashanna Williams has supported people through the medical-aid-in-dying process for under a decade. During that time, she acquired knowledge and skills in navigating medicalized spaces, spatial dynamics, and some sweet tools, including one that can help the medicine go down.  We will talk about what MAiD actually is, the ingestion process, some of the laws, and the ways that you can support. It’s important to know ways to keep people informed, comfortable, and safe, and through covering some of the topics below, Lashanna hopes to share some helpful information.

Psilocybin mushrooms are profoundly wise beings who have much to teach humanity as they offer their assistance with our healing. The ceremonial use of entheogenic plant medicines has deep and sacred origins in Indigenous cultures worldwide, and are becoming widely recognized by conventional medicine for their healing potential. 

Dr. Quinn will also discuss traditional and contemporary usage of psilocybin, including clinical research and therapeutic services being offered to people with terminal illness and experiencing grief.

This training will cover the basics of how to prevent, recognize, and respond to opioid overdose from a harm reduction perspective - where the goal is not to stop people from using drugs, but to make the space for people to learn ways to keep themselves and their community safer. 

This video is a recording of a free online panel that took place Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 highlighting the stories of five Hawaiʻi residents - Clark, Momi, Louise, David, and Lesa - sharing their experiences of a family member navigating the Medical Aid in Dying program. Each panel participant pre-recorded their story to share, and were present to answer questions from the hosts and the audience. 

The panel was facilitated by Joy Rodriguez (honoluludeathdoula.com) and Leilani Maxera (kaipuokaualoku.com). These two death workers met the panelists through a support group that they co-facilitate for loved ones of people who navigated the MAiD process in Hawaiʻi.

Caring for people during, through, and after the loss of a pregnancy or the death of an infant or child requires people to hold a whole different space.  The medical complex does not often leave or make time for this to be a slow process.  Out-of-order losses can be incredibly difficult to process, not just for the birthing person but for all those who care for them.  Join Marquita how she engages in these losses as care practitioners.  

Rebecca Grossman shares her insight into organ donation, and discusses some of the nuances of choice around donating to medical facilities alongside factual information and research on cornea donation.

Would you like to learn more about body donation for scientific research? What about brain donation? Did you know that we don’t have medicine for a lot of neurodegenerative diseases because scientists don’t have functional (not dead) brain tissue? Ieva Veya, Executive Director from Cure After (http://cureafter.com) will walk us through the existing body and brain donation programs and how such programs, including Cure After brain tissue donation, make meaningful legacy projects that have an impact on science and drug discovery.