Gail Rubin, CT, The Doyenne of Death® and a Certified Funeral Celebrant, is available for speaking engagements. She’ll “knock ’em dead” with her enthusiastic approach to the life cycle event formerly known as a funeral.
Gail’s talks are appropriate for a wide range of audiences and settings, including conferences and conventions for funeral directors and social workers, for hospices and hospitals, at colleges and businesses.
Her title is The Doyenne of Death®. A doyenne is a woman who’s considered senior in a group who knows a lot about a particular subject. Gail makes learning about end-of-life issues enjoyable and entertaining. She was named a 2019 Women of Influence award winner by Albuquerque Business First. As the coordinator of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival five years in a row, she can consult about and speak at these conversation-starting events.
She has spoken at national and state conventions for:
- The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association
- The National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association
- The Association for Death Education and Counseling
- Selected Independent Funeral Homes
- The Texas Funeral Directors Association and their North Texas regional association meeting
- The Ohio Cemetery Association
- The New Hampshire Funeral Directors Association
- The Alabama Funeral Directors Association
- The Funeral Consumers Alliance at both the national and state level
- The American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys
- The American Psychosocial Oncology Society
- The California Hospice and Palliative Care Association
Gail has also spoken at companies, colleges, numerous community groups and churches, synagogues, and Jewish Community Centers. She can discuss traditions for funerals in many religions and cultures as well as the practical aspects of funeral planning that many families don’t think about until faced with a death in the family.
Using Funny Films to Start Serious Conversations
Download descriptions of these and other film clip talks: Gail Rubin Presentation Descriptions
- Funny Films for Funeral Planning
- Movies, Medicine and Mortality
- Ashes to Ashes, Dust in Your Face: Cremation, Comedy and Creativity
- The Many Faces of Grief: Mourning in the Movies
- Estate Planning Lessons from Hollywood
- The Funeral Director on Film
- “Doctor, How Long Do I Have?”
- Lessons from Six Feet Under
- Jewish Funeral Traditions on Film
- We Can Do That? New Trends in Death Care
Please call 505.265.7215 to discuss how we might work together! Here are a few examples of talks by Gail Rubin you can view on YouTube:
A Short History of A Good Goodbye
Why You Should Write an Upon My Death Letter
TEDxABQ Talk “A Good Goodbye”
