Death Doula & End of Life Support in Nashville

Farewell Fellowship provides compassionate end of life support for individuals and families, community death education, and opportunities to learn more deeply about dying, death, and grief.

Death belongs in community.

Farewell Fellowship is a death doula practice and death literacy project rooted in Middle Tennessee. We support individuals and families through end of life, bring practical death education into communities, and create places to learn, question, and talk more openly about mortality.

The work takes different forms. The purpose is the same: helping people feel less alone and less unprepared when death enters their lives.

How Farewell Serves

  • Death doula support and end-of-life care – overlay of line-drawn holding hands on fading flowers, symbolizing compassion, guidance, and presence at the end of life.

    Death Doula Support & End-of-Life Care

    Experienced, personalized death doula services, from planning to bedside presence, through grief support for individuals, families, and communities at the end of life.

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  • Death doula training and certification programs – overlay of line-drawn open book on a fading flower, symbolizing learning, wisdom, and guidance in end-of-life care.

    Community Education & Practitioner Formation

    Death education rooted in community and practice. Explore offerings for groups and organizations, or apprenticeship for aspiring death doulas.

    Explore Apprenticeship
  • Grief and death literacy resources – field of fading flowers with a line-drawn quill overlay, symbolizing writing, reflection, and shared wisdom in the Farewell Library blog.

    Grief & Death Literacy Resources

    Readings, writing, podcasts and resource guides for the death and grief curious. The Farewell Library offers tools, book lists, & resources to help us meet death with courage and care.

    Visit the Library

Meet Farewell’s Founder

Jade Adgate is a practicing death doula, educator, and community ritualist based in Nashville, Tennessee.

She founded Farewell Fellowship as a place for accompanying the dying, supporting the people who love them, and bringing knowledge about death and dying back into community.

Her work is grounded in years of bedside care, hospice service, teaching, and honest conversation about mortality. Across end of life support, community education, and mentorship, Jade’s work is rooted in a simple belief: we can learn how to care for one another through dying, death, and grief.

Portrait of Jade Adgate, death doula, educator, and founder of Farewell Fellowship and Farewell Education, offering end-of-life care and death doula training in Nashville and virtually.
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One relationship. A whole team behind it.

End of life rarely follows a schedule. Needs change, plans shift, and sometimes more support is needed than one person can provide.

Farewell uses a team based approach to care, giving families greater continuity, availability, and support while maintaining a consistent relationship with the doula who knows them best.

Your care may include a primary doula supported by other experienced Farewell doulas when additional presence, respite, bedside care, or coverage is needed.

Meet the Team

Where Farewell Serves

From the rolling hills of Middle Tennessee to the hush of bedside vigils, Farewell’s in-person death doula work roots itself in Nashville, Franklin, and the communities that surround them. The hand-drawn map marks the land where we offer direct, embodied end-of-life support.

But Farewell is not bound by geography. Through virtual courses, mentorship, and immersive death doula trainings, we walk with students across the country and beyond, offering tools, presence, and practice to those called to serve the threshold.

Colorful illustrated map of Nashville and surrounding neighborhoods, labeled with neighborhood names like Franklin, Bellevue, Brentwood, and others, that show where certified Death Doula, Jade Adgate serves families at end-of-life.

What Clients Are Saying

"Jade's weekly visits help set in motion a smoother transition for both my family and me as I live every single day until the last.  We would have been great friends had we met sooner but I'm so glad to have her support as a doula now."

-Roxane Emigh

“Jade gave us space to express our desires for our child in life and in death, and then she ensured that they were fulfilled.  Jade walked with us through some of the hardest moments and gave us the confidence to support and love our child well to the end of her life on earth and beyond.” 

-Andrew & Stephanie McGuire

“At first, I thought we were hiring a doula for our mother—but in truth, we were hiring her for us: for me, my sisters, and my dad. While she was available to support our mom, it became clear that Jade was exactly what we needed.”

-Brittany Bell

Jade loves to encourage death literacy & grief awareness on IG @the.farewell.library. Check out her content below:

I don’t write about the deaths of historical literary figures to scare anyone. I write about them because they show us that people who spent their lives contemplating death still lived with the perennial fear of the very thing they studied. To
Death used to happen in the home. Families were prepared for it because aging, decline, and the dying process, also happened in the home. Families tended the dying. Communities served the dead. Today, we have outsourced, professionalized, institut
I took a writing workshop a few years ago and the prompt was to write a “How To” poem that explained something you do often that isn’t common knowledge. At the time, I was spending my days in bedside work with those who were dying,
It will probably surprise exactly no one that I lived for gold stars on my worksheets as a kid. So this is one social media trend I am here for. When I think of the spaces of people at end of life, there are 6 things that I immediately want to give a
There are some key values I want to keep at the heart of my work as a death doula and a deathcare educator: human-focused, relationship-based, community care for the dying, the dead, the grieving, and their caretakers. So I have to ensure that I&rsqu
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Tell us what’s happening. We’ll help you determine the next step.