[[2][3] The group advocates for natural burial and embracing human mortality.[1]]Along with Doughty, members include Sarah Chavez[2], Director of The Order of the Good Death, Megan Rosenbloom, Director of Death Salon, and Amber Carvaly, Director of Undertaking LA. Other notable members are artist and monument-maker Greg Lundgren, TED speaker Jae Rhim Lee, alternative funeral home director Jeff Jorgenson, artist Landis Blair,[3] and other death professionals, artists and academics.[7][8][9][10][4][12]
The group held its first "death salon" in Los Angeles in 2013.[13][2][15][16][17] Another salon was held in 2014 at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum in London by museum curator Carla Valentine.[18]
The group took its name from the Brazilian Order of Our Lady of the Good Death.[5]
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