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Rachael Klos is an educator and advocate at heart. After finding her place in education 25 years ago, she experienced great joy coaching teachers and instructing children with different needs. Then, when blessed with the greatest of gifts – her second child – she realized just how fragile life can be.

Rachael’s precious “middle little” Henry was born with a life-limiting illness. Throughout Henry’s short life and since his death in 2015, Rachael and her family have received loving guidance from their many extraordinary circles of support. Bringing great intention to her son’s eventual death, she believes, has provided unexpected comfort through their family’s grief. Realizing that her life’s work is to be a guiding light for families of sick and dying children and a grief support in their “after,” Rachael discovered the Conscious Dying Collective (formerly Conscious Dying Institute) and became certified as a Death Doula and End of Life Educator.

Rachael is passionate about the lessons that can be learned about intentional living from the work of embracing a conscious death. It is the beautiful life and peaceful death of her son, Henry, that has led Rachael to this sacred work of accepting our eventual death in order to live a meaningful, intentional life.

In support of the Death Positive Movement, Rachael’s mission is to normalize death and grief, while cultivating intentional living, conscious dying, and purposeful grieving. She is focused on the wellness of mind, body, and spirit for individuals and their families in life and through death. With a passion for Pediatrics, Rachael works to normalize the plan for death and the work of grief at all ages.

For Rachael, the decision to leave Henry’s home in Denver, Colorado, a few years ago was wrought with both grief and gratitude. She has since returned to the special education classroom in San Diego, and continues to guide curious minds along the tender paths of pediatric death and grief through her faculty role with the Conscious Dying Collective. Rachael is settling into the SoCal life with her husband and their *three* children, two here and one near – because Henry’s mystical presence is her daily inspiration as he continues to teach her all about life and death from the other side of the thin veil.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

-Henry David Thoreau