Author Meet & Greet: Jane K. Callahan
About this Event
Join the Pre-Dead Social Club for an evening with Jane K. Callahan, author of A Death Doula’s Guide to a Meaningful End, in conversation with Pre-Dead Social Club founder and end-of-life doula Laura Cleminson about dying, caregiving, grief, and the many things most of us don’t realize we need to know until life suddenly asks us to know them.
An end-of-life doula, hospice volunteer, educator, and graduate student in clinical mental health counseling, Jane has spent years supporting individuals and families through the emotional, practical, and deeply human realities that accompany serious illness and death. Through her work, she has witnessed firsthand how our culture’s avoidance of death-related conversations often creates unnecessary suffering, confusion, and isolation.
What makes Jane’s work especially compelling is her ability to balance honesty with warmth, humor, and humanity. Through memorable stories woven from both her clients’ lives and her own lived experiences, she invites readers and audiences alike into conversations that are often avoided—but deeply needed. Her approach is thoughtful, grounded, vulnerable, and refreshingly real, offering reassurance that meaningful end-of-life experiences are possible when we’re willing to lean into the conversation.
Jane trained through the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) and earned her professional certificate in end-of-life doula work through the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Funeral Consumers Alliance of North Carolina and is an active member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). In addition to hospice volunteering and community education, she has cultivated a growing community of doulas and death workers throughout North Carolina’s Triangle region.
Whether you are personally curious about end-of-life issues, supporting aging parents, navigating caregiving, working professionally in healthcare or death care, or simply interested in becoming more comfortable with the realities we all eventually face, this conversation promises to be insightful, approachable, and deeply human.
>> There will be time for Q&A and book signing.
>> For books purchased in advance, enjoy at 10% discount via our bookseller partner the Portsmouth Book Nook via this LINK.
Books will also be available for purchase night of, on a first-come / first-served basis.
The Pre-Dead Social Club is on a mission to bring fresh energy to vital conversations about dying and death—fostering understanding among individuals, loved ones, and the professionals we rely on. Together, we cultivate clarity, build confidence, and advocate for compassionate, personalized end-of-life experiences.
This author event is one of the many ways we are achieving our mission.
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