Our Roots
We envision a world where death is met with reverence, where care is accessible to all, and where grief is acknowledged as love.
Our Roots
Back in 2013, our founder was an entrepreneur with a thriving consumer insights business. She was also the sole caregiver for a man with terminal rectal cancer. Through the process of his treatment, decline, and eventual distressing death, Erin experienced the painful consequences of her partner’s death denial, and was astonished by the lack of training and support available to patients and families. Her experience is briefly outlined in this podcast episode, How to be Anything, where Erin explains what a death doula does and what a good death can look like.
This was a deeply catalyzing experience. Over the following years, Erin immersed herself in the fields of death positivity, hospice, death care, and the American death system. She cultivated a passion for evolving the national conversation around death and dying. In late 2023, she founded Nightsong Doulas with a commitment to
Death literacy
Building death positive community, and
Providing compassionate, loving support of families, individuals, and communities.
About Erin
Erin Bishop is an INELDA-Certified End of Life Doula serving families and communities in the Greater Richmond, VA region. She is a graduate of the Integrated Thanatology program at the Art of Dying Institute (thanatology is the study of death).
Erin is dedicated to:
advocating for mortality awareness and expanded end-of-life care,
facilitating open conversations about death with the public, and
guiding clients and families as they navigate mortality.
She is also a proud participant in the second Death Consciousness movement currently underway and the founder of Nightsong Doulas.