Ars Moriendi Services

08/20/2026

🔥 We’ve got the sponsors. Now we need YOU in the room. 🔥

Embers & Evermore is coming up on September 12, and we need your help filling the room with people who believe compassionate end-of-life care matters.

Maybe you’ve been following Ars Moriendi for a while. Maybe this is the first time our name has crossed your screen. Either way, ʏᴏᴜ are invited. 🤍

Come spend an evening with us enjoying good food, drinks, conversation, and a silent auction, while helping us build something our community deeply needs.

Every ticket purchased helps Ars Moriendi continue providing end-of-life education, grief support, Death Doula services and training, and working toward our biggest goal: opening our region’s first social model hospice house. 🏡🌿

But there’s something else your ticket does:

It puts people in the room.

It brings together a community willing to talk about death differently. A community that believes no one should have to navigate dying alone, afraid, or without support. A community willing to help us create something better.

🎟️ If you’ve been thinking about attending, now is the time to grab your ticket.

And if you already have yours, help us fill the room:
✨ Share this post
✨ Tag someone you’d bring with you
✨ Send it directly to a friend who might not know about Ars Moriendi yet

You never know whose feed we haven’t reached yet.

🔥 Embers & Evermore
📅 September 12
🎟️ Tickets: https://givebutter.com/c/Embers-and-Evermore

Will we see you there? 🤍

08/19/2026

🕯️ Grateful for the businesses helping us kindle something lasting.

Embers & Evermore would not be possible without the incredible businesses and organizations who have chosen to stand behind Ars Moriendi and our vision for compassionate end-of-life care in our community.

We are honored to recognize our Embers & Evermore sponsors:

✨ LIGHT OF HOPE SPONSORS
🍷 Potomac Point Vineyard & Winery
📚 Novel — Books • Gifts • Connection

🩶 GUARDIAN ANGEL SPONSORS
🧭 Lowman Consulting & Logistics
🌱 Rappahannock Education Farm
🕊️ Laurel Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park

🕯️ COMFORT MAKER SPONSORS
🏦 Shore United Bank
💬 End of Life Conversations

To each of these organizations: thank you. Your generosity is helping us continue providing end-of-life education, grief support, doula training, and compassionate resources while moving us closer to our larger vision of establishing a social model hospice house in our region.

And there is still one very important place at the table.

🌳 We are currently seeking a Legacy Partner, our premier $5,000 sponsorship.

Our Legacy Partner will be making more than a contribution to one evening. They will be investing in a vision for our community where people approaching the end of life, and the people who love them, have greater access to knowledge, comfort, dignity, presence, and care.

If your business or organization believes in leaving a legacy of compassionate care, we would be honored to have you stand with us.

Ready to become our Legacy Partner and help us build a more compassionate future for end-of-life care in our community?

🔗 Claim the Legacy Partner sponsorship here: https://givebutter.com/c/Embers-and-Evermore

Please join us in thanking these wonderful community partners in the comments. 🤍

08/18/2026

📚 Buying a book? Make your next read support Ars Moriendi Services.

Whether you’re looking for a book about death and dying, grief, caregiving, end-of-life planning, or simply your next great read, you can support Ars Moriendi without spending anything extra.

When you shop through our affiliate link at Bookshop, 10% of your purchase supports Ars Moriendi Services. 🤍

And here’s the important part: you don’t have to buy one of the books on our recommended lists. Once you use our link to visit Bookshop, you can browse and purchase from their huge selection of books, and your purchase can still benefit Ars Moriendi.

Even better, after clicking our affiliate link, your purchases can be credited to us for the next 30 days. So if you’re planning to order a book soon, start with our link!

Instead of automatically heading to Amazon for your next book order, consider making Bookshop.org your first stop. 📖 Every purchase made through our link helps fund the work we’re doing to provide end-of-life education, grief support, doula training, and compassionate care in our community.

🌿 It costs you nothing extra, but those purchases can add up to something meaningful for our mission.

🔗 Shop through our affiliate link here:
https://bookshop.org/shop/amshome

Already have a book on your wish list? Tell us what you’re reading next in the comments! 👇📚

08/18/2026

This is our moment. 🤍

An incredibly generous anonymous donor has stepped forward with a $10,000 founding gift to establish the Ars Moriendi Services Fund through The Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region.

Now, we’re asking our community to help us turn $10,000 into $100,000.

We are looking for 9 individuals, families, businesses, or organizations willing to match this donor’s $10,000 gift.

Why $100,000?

Because $100,000 would provide approximately six months of the funding we need to launch a pilot location and program for our social model hospice house.

Ars Moriendi has been working toward a vision of a place in our community where people approaching the end of life can be surrounded by comfort, dignity, companionship, and care, especially when dying at home is not possible and a traditional inpatient setting is not what they need.

Nine more $10,000 gifts could help us take that vision off the page and put it into practice.

Nine people could help us open the door.

Nine businesses could make an extraordinary investment in end-of-life care in our region.

Nine families could help create a place that may someday care for someone else’s family, or their own.

And you do not have to be one of the nine to be part of this. Every gift moves us closer. $25, $100, $500, $1,000, every contribution helps build the foundation for what comes next.

🌿 Will you help us reach $100,000?

If you, your family, your business, or your organization may be interested in becoming one of our nine $10,000 matching donors, please reach out to us.

And if a $10,000 gift isn’t possible, please consider giving what you can, sharing this post, or tagging a person or local business that believes our community deserves compassionate options at the end of life.

We have the vision. We have the first $10,000. Now we need our community to help us open the door. 🤍

👉 Help us bring compassionate end of life care to Fredericksburg: https://givebutter.com/AMSsocialhospice

The Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region is proud to announce the establishment of the Ars Moriendi Services Fund, created to support compassionate, community-based end-of-life care, education, and family services throughout our region.
With a generous $10,000 founding gift from an anonymous donor, this new fund will help Ars Moriendi Services advance its mission of ensuring every individual and family can experience life's final chapter with dignity, comfort, and peace.
Learn more about the vision behind this important initiative and how you can help make a lasting impact by reading the full story: https://www.cfrrr.org/a-place-to-find-peace-ars-moriendi-services-is-changing-the-way-our-community-experiences-end-of-life/

08/17/2026

🌿 Meet the people behind Ars Moriendi.

Today, we’re introducing Sara Milliken, co-founder and Board Chair of Ars Moriendi Services. 🤍

In this first installment of our Meet the Board series, Sara shares a little about herself, what Ars Moriendi is, and the heart behind the work we do in our community.

Ars Moriendi is built by people who believe that everyone deserves access to the resources that will help them die well. We’re excited to give you the opportunity to get to know some of the people helping make that work possible.

🎥 Watch to meet Sara and learn a little more about Ars Moriendi.

💬 Have a question for Sara or something you’d like us to talk about in a future video? Leave it in the comments!

08/16/2026

📣 Ars Moriendi is now on TikTok!

We’re making a little more space on your For You Page for conversations about death, dying, grief, and what it means to live well while we’re here. 🌿

Follow us on TikTok for end-of-life education, death-positive conversations, a look behind the scenes at Ars Moriendi, upcoming events, resources, and maybe a little dark humor along the way. 🤍

If you already follow us here, come find us on TikTok and help us build this new corner of our community!

📱 Follow us:

And help us spread the word: tag a friend who you think belongs on death-positive TikTok with us. 👇

08/13/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for tonight’s Death Cafe! 🤍

There’s something meaningful about gathering around a table and making space for conversations we don’t often get the opportunity to have.

Tonight we talked, listened, laughed, reflected, and shared openly about death, dying, life, and everything that comes along with being human.

We’re so grateful to each person who showed up with curiosity, vulnerability, and a willingness to be part of the conversation. You are what makes the Death Cafe possible.

And a special thank you to everyone for rolling with our last-minute location change and still coming out to join us! 🫶

💬 Were you with us tonight? Tell us in the comments what you enjoyed about the evening, or simply drop a ♥️ so we know you were there!

Keep an eye on our page for the next Death Cafe, held every second Wednesday of the month. We’d love to have you at the table.

08/12/2026

🚨 IMPORTANT DEATH CAFE UPDATE! 🚨

Due to an unexpected change, tonight’s Death Cafe has moved to a new location.

📍 NEW LOCATION:
Wegmans Cafe
2281 Carl D Silver Pkwy
Fredericksburg, VA 22401

⏰ The time has NOT changed: 5:30–7:00 PM

Please help us spread the word by sharing this post so everyone planning to attend sees the location change!

We apologize for the last-minute switch and appreciate your flexibility. We look forward to seeing you at Wegmans! 💜☕

08/12/2026

💌 A will is one final act of love.

We often think of a will as a legal document about what happens to our belongings after we die.

But at its heart, a will is also about caring for the people who will continue living.

When someone dies, the people who love them are already carrying grief. Without clear instructions, they may also be left with questions they never expected to answer:

What would they have wanted?
Who should take care of this?
Am I making the right decision?

A thoughtful will can help lighten that burden. 🤍

It can provide clarity when emotions are high, reduce the potential for uncertainty and conflict, and give the people you love clear guidance when you are no longer there to give it yourself.

At Ars Moriendi, we believe preparing for the end of life is not about dwelling on death. It is about making space for honest conversations, thoughtful choices, and care for the people who matter to us.

🌿 Preparing for death is ultimately an act of love for those who will continue living.

This Make a Will Month, consider your will not only as a plan for what you leave behind, but as a gift of clarity for the people you leave it to.

💬 What is one thing you would want your loved ones to never have to guess about?