We tend to be familiar with the ingredients of environmentally sensitive living, manifested in our love of the Prius, our fervor for recycling and abhorrence of plastic bags. Zenith Virago, the founding member of the non-profit Natural Death Centre Australia and co-author of Intimacy of Death and Dying invites those in pursuit of sustainable lifestyles to consider the options available for an equally conscious ‘deathstyle’. Take one step further on an exploration of environmental considerations and explore those surrounding death.

Zenith Virago
As a respected professional pioneer and acknowledged expert in the fields of holistic death and dying, Zenith Virago provides information and guidance that greatly assist a natural and sacred journeying into the end of life experience. Coming from a background in legal and community work, she has been assisting people to reclaim and conduct the whole process themselves, without the use of a funeral director.

Zenith has spent several decades living and celebrating life and death; she sees her work as a privilege and an important part of her life’s journey, and it gives her a deep love and gratitude for the wonderful mystery of life and death of which we are all a part. Zenith offers workshops in conscious living and dying, is also the founding member of the non-profit Natural Death Centre Australia, and the co-author of the Intimacy of Death and Dying.

Further reading:
Want to learn a little more before Zenith’s session? She’s suggested you read the following books:
The Intimacy of Death & Dying 2009 Allen & Unwin
Dying to Know, Bringing Death to Life 2007 Pilotlight
Rest Assured, Legal guide to Wills, Estates & Funerals 2005  Redfern Legal Centre Publishing
Dying Well, A holistic guide for the dying & their carers 1997 Gaia Books