Course curriculum

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    You Know You Should: Writing Meaningful Condolence Letters

    • Writing condolence notes and letters

    • 8 Tips for Writing Condolence Letters from the NYT

    • 64 of the Best Things Ever Said to a Griever

    • Condolence and Sympathy Letters

    • How to Write a Condolence Letter The New Yorker

    • How to Write a Condolence Letter — 5 Suggestions

    • How to Write a Condolence Note NYT — COVID Edition

    • 7 Components of Writing a Condolence Letter

    • Condolence Letters of the Famous (and Infamous)

Instructor(s)

Lee Webster

Lee Webster‘s experience with home funeral and green burial advocacy informs her work as a nationally recognized leader in the end of life sphere. She served in chief leadership positions with the National Home Funeral Alliance and the Green Burial Council, and helped found the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance and the Conservation Burial Alliance while directing New Hampshire Funeral Resources, Education & Advocacy. She is a writer, researcher, educator, long-time hospice volunteer, home funeral guide, conservationist, funeral-related website content writer and designer, and frequent speaker on home funerals, green burial, and funeral reform on the local and national front. She is the author of several home funeral and green burial books, including Changing Landscapes: Exploring the growth of ethical, compassionate and environmentally sustainable green funeral service and The After-Death care Educators Handbook, and has published articles and interviews that can be found in media outlets including The New Republic, Boston Globe, The New York Times, NPR, and many others. She co-teaches the Green Burial Masterclass, and is a frequent lecturer in continuing education, colleges, and university classes, including Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire.