End of Life Careers
Work most people never hear about until they need someone who does it.
Ask a room of teenagers what they want to be and nobody says death investigator.
They have not heard of it. They have not heard of a death doula, or a bereavement counselor, or a crematory operator, or a trust and estate officer either. These are real jobs, many of them stable, meaningful, and short of people, and almost nobody finds out they exist until a week when they badly need someone who does one of them.
That struck me as a strange gap to leave open. So End of Life Careers documents the whole landscape and gives it away.
What is in it
Six fields, from funeral and deathcare operations through death investigation and forensics, clinical and bedside care, companionship and grief support, after-loss work, and estate, financial, and legacy planning.
Inside those, 27 career profiles saying what the work actually involves, 83 schools, 50 credentials, and 180 organizations that train, certify, or employ people doing it.
It is built for students, for career changers, and for anyone who got curious after a hard few months and wondered whether the person who helped them has a job title.
Why it is free
Because charging for it would defeat the point. It sits under Buried in Work Charitable, the 501(c)(3), which is what pays for it, and it lives on its own domain rather than buried inside a commercial site, because a seventeen-year-old researching careers should not have to walk through a shop to get to it.
The facts
- What it is
- A free guide to careers in death
- Fields
- Six
- Careers
- 27 profiles
- Programs
- 83 schools and 50 credentials
- Organizations
- 180
- Cost
- Free. A Buried in Work Charitable initiative