About us

Cory Smith, Kirby Lee, and Jennifer Muir are three death death care practitioners who have been serving together in community. We formed this collective because we’ve seen how supportive it can be for individuals and families to be held by a team, especially during vigil and after-death care, when steady, shared presence matters most.

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Kirby Lee is a life, death, and transition doula and spiritual care provider accompanying individuals and families through thresholds of change, grief, dying, and death. Her work attends to the emotional, spiritual, relational, and practical dimensions of these experiences, drawing from her formation in chaplaincy, hands-on caregiving, community death care, and contemplative practice.

Her path into death care began while living in Central Mexico, where she trained and worked alongside life, death, and transition doulas through the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation for 2.5 years. Since returning to the U.S., she has worked as a doula and caregiver with Hudson Valley Hospice, supported residents and families at community life-and-death care homes including East Mountain House and Circle Home for the Dying, and co-founded Seventh Sense, a land-based community death care home. In her private practice, she offers direct doula support and coordinates collaborative circles of care when more sustained support is needed.

Kirby’s work is rooted in the arts of companionship and an abiding curiosity about process—how creativity and spiritual practice can help us stay present to change, loss, death, and transition. Her offerings also include peer grief support, dream work, VSED and MAID accompaniment, vigil, and after-death and home funeral care.

Kirby is a certified Chaplain, Doula, and Home Health Aide. She completed Clinical Pastoral Education through Yangti Yoga, with clinical chaplaincy experience at St. Peter’s Hospital. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia and spent fifteen years working closely with artists in the music industry. Her creative background continues to inform her care through deep listening, attunement, improvisation, and respect for processes that cannot always be anticipated or resolved.

Kirby Lee

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Jennifer Muir is a death care worker, contemplative caregiver, sound therapist, mother and devotee to the path of the heart. Attuned to compassion, she supports individuals and families through end of life navigation by meeting each person/family at their specific point of need. Jennifer's approach is tailored to honor distinct perspectives and requirements of those she supports. In navigating the active dying process, her support may include contemplative death planning, spiritual support, sitting vigil at the bedside, offering respite to family members, contemplative presence, guided meditation and visualization, sound therapy, after death and grief care, among other forms of assistance. Additionally, Jennifer draws upon her extensive study in both mystical Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism. Through this integration of wisdom and practice, she offers a deeply embodied presence adaptable to a wide range of circumstances. Jennifer's mission is to offer care, presence, and grounded spiritual companionship that helps people meet life, and death, with greater trust, spaciousness, and love.

Jennifer Muir

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Cory is a Death Doula, End of Life Care Consultant, Mother, Reiki practitioner and Yoga teacher. Her passion for working with seniors and navigating all the beautiful and numerous aspects of death comes from a lifetime of spiritual practice and an interest in truly wholistic health and well being. Cory began her career teaching yoga for every body with a focus on movement for Seniors. With a desire to move into deeper work and stay connected to a population that she always felt at home with, end of life care was a natural fit. Cory understands that no two journeys are alike. She has the capacity to meet each person and family where they are, helping to explore what a meaningful end-of-life experience looks like, guided by personal values, beliefs, and wishes.

My mission is to help end stigma around death and dying replacing it with understanding and empowerment. My intention is to help individuals and families approach this sacred time with clarity, peace and intention.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

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