When I Die

An inspiring story about death. In early production.

Sabrina didn’t want hands that didn’t love her to touch her.

After a late-stage ovarian cancer diagnosis, 38-year-old Sabrina shared her dying wish with her sister, daughter and five close friends: “When I die, I want you to take care of my body in my home, hold my funeral in the yard, and I want a green burial on nearby land.” While fulfilling her request, these women learned a powerful new way of processing loss, so much that it sparked one of them to make green burials accessible to her community and beyond.

WHEN I DIE asks, what is sacrificed when we outsource the deathcare of our loved ones to industrialized systems, and what can be gained from re-claiming these community-based life skills?