When she cared for and then lost her own beloved brother to brain cancer three years ago and then her mother ten months after that, she acted as death doula, caring for each, celebrating their lives, and holding vigil afterward. Helping her loved ones experience death on their terms and the grief she’s experienced losing two of her soul connections inspired Becky to create The Death Dialogues Project. She is passionate about helping to illuminate the ways our culture can choose to treat each person’s end-of-life journey as sacred as their birth.

Becky Aud-Jennison, MA, LCPC ’s life changed with a phone call from her dear brother, Max, on January 2, 2016; he wanted to confidentially process some frustrating memory loss. That was the last lucid conversation with her life-line sibling. Little did she know when her mother moved in with her in October 2015, she would be walking her home just ten months after the death of her brother who died in January 2017– having now been at the bedside of each of her nuclear family as they died, since her father’s death in 1983.

Death has certainly informed Becky throughout her lengthy career in human services, starting as a nurses aide, then nurse, then clinical mental health professional and mind-body practitioner. Always a champion for doing institutionalized end of life more humanely— the recent deaths of her two family pillars brought her to her knees while also lighting a fire inside her.