Rewilding Guides
Accessible resources for death literacy. Not answers — invitations.
These guides offer simple ways into ecological death literacy, grief, composting, relationality, and more-than-human belonging. They are meant to help visitors notice differently, ask better questions, and imagine more response-able ways of living and dying.
Current Guides
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Why Death Is a Verb: Rheomode and Earth-Making
A guide to the idea at the heart of the project: death not as a fixed noun, but as an ongoing earthly process.
What Is Human Composting?
A plain-language introduction to natural organic reduction — the science, the process, the providers, and how one human body becomes 1.5 cubic yards of rich soil.
Sensing Ourselves as Holobiont
We are not one. We are many. This guide invites us to sense the body as a living community.
Death Practices Across Cultures
A living guide gathering diverse cultural understandings of death as transformation, ceremony, and ecological ongoingness.
Staying With: A Guide to Sitting With the Dying
Practical and contemplative guidance for being present with someone approaching death.
Human Composting Laws & Policy: What’s Happening Near You
A living guide to legislation, pending bills, advocacy opportunities, and provider access.
Sensing Beyond the Human: An Introduction to Umwelt
A guide to the many perceptual worlds of other beings, and to the porousness of our own.
Guides are living documents — updated as the community contributes.
Have knowledge to add? Write to dr.courtney@deathisaverb.org.