Member Profile

Jade Adgate has walked alongside individuals and families at the end of life since 2018 as a hospice volunteer and since 2020 as a practicing death doula in Middle Tennessee. She offers one-on-one end-of-life and after-death support through Farewell Fellowship, providing steady, practical, and emotional care to those nearing death and the people who love them.

Education is at the heart of Jade’s work. She believes death care is community care, and that the skills of tending, honoring the body, and companioning grief should be shared in relationship, not reserved for professionals alone. Death doulas do not only serve at the bedside; they help others learn how to show up at the bedside of their own.

Through Farewell Education, Jade trains and mentors aspiring doulas in the yearlong Deathwalker Apprenticeship, a relationship-centered program where students serve real families, engage hospice work, and receive one-on-one guidance within an ongoing cohort community. She also offers continuing education, mentorship, and introductory courses for both doulas and families who want to care well for their own.

Jade helped establish a 25+ member death doula cohort within her local hospice’s volunteer program and extends community death literacy through the Exit Interviews podcast, Death Doula Dialogues, and the Farewell Library, a public death and grief resource hub.

Her work is rooted in one belief: when we learn to fare well together, fellowship becomes the most profound care we can offer.