Embracing Life: Lessons from End-of-Life Doula Diane Button
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, 7pm – 8:30pm ET
Our February webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
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Webinar Guests:
Amanda Marie Ellis King, CFSP | Embalmer and Funeral Director, INELDA Trained-Doula
Jackie Naginey Hook, MA | Spiritual director, Celebrant, and INELDA_trained End-of-life Doula at Koch Funeral Home
Webinar Moderator:
Kimberly Stravers | INELDA Educator, Celebrant, and Former Funeral Attendant
Webinar Guest(s):
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Zeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D. | Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS)
Recorded on Wednesday, April 29th, 2026, 7pm – 8:30pm ET
Webinar Guest:
Diane Button | Author and Founding Partner of Bay Area End-of-Life Doula Alliance
Webinar Moderator:
Kim Stravers | INELDA Educator
Diane Button, author and founding partner of the Bay Area End-of-Life Doula Alliance in Northern California, shared her personal journey about living with a life-threatening illness, becoming a doula, and lessons from her new book, What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living. Educator Kim Stravers and Diane Button engaged in deep conversation about Diane’s path of becoming a doula.
Together the two explored what drove Diane to become an end-of-life doula following her breast cancer treatment, her deep commitment to the field through her podcasts and books, and the community she co-built through the Bay Area End-of-Life Doula Alliance in Northern California. Diane also serves as an instructor at the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program and was a former board member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). Her deep commitment to the field holds lessons for all end-of-life doulas.
Her latest book contains stories (many from INELDA-trained doulas) that can shine a light on the support end-of-life doulas engage in.
*Please note that this month’s webinar is free for ALL members including Tier 1
Guest Speaker Bio:
Diane Button is a founding partner of the Bay Area End-of-Life Doula Alliance in Northern California, and best-selling author of several books related to end-of-life, meaningful living, and the growing impact of death doulas worldwide. She is an instructor at the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program and was a former board member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). She is an International End of Life Doula Association graduate and she holds a master’s in counseling psychology from Goddard College in Vermont.
Immediately following her diagnosis of breast cancer at 48, Diane and her young children established the nonprofit Dream of a Better World.
Diane’s best-selling books have been featured on numerous programs and podcasts, inspiring others to leave a meaningful legacy. Her other books include the best-selling titles Dear Death: Finding Meaning in Life, Peace in Death, and Joy in an Ordinary Day which combines the insights gained from her research on “The Four Pillars of a Meaningful Life,” with over a decade working with hospice and doula clients in their final days and The Doula Tool Kit: The Complete Practical Guide for End-of-Life Doulas & Caregivers, which was co-authored by Angela Shook and Gabby Jimenez.
In October of 2022, during the pandemic, Diane wrote an article that went viral article for Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper that remains widely-read and one of their most popular articles. What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living is her latest book, written at the invitation of Maria Shriver and published by Penguin Random House. It is available everywhere books are sold.
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