Death Cafe profile for Bright Young Life Management LLC
Location: United States
About Bright Young Life Management LLC:
About Avery Bright
Avery Bright (she/her) is a full spectrum doula, death justice advocate, and the visionary behind Bright Young Life Management. Rooted in womanist values, ancestral reverence, and community care, Avery supports individuals and families through life’s most sacred thresholds—from birth to death and the many rites of passage in between.
Her work centers Black and Indigenous people, people of color, LGBTQIA2S+ folks, and others whose lives are too often excluded from conversations around care, grief, and legacy. As a mother of four, a seasoned caregiver, and a death doula shaped by both lived experience and spiritual practice, Avery creates intentional spaces where grief is honored, stories are shared, and death is held with dignity and compassion.
Avery lives and works in Inglewood, California, on the traditional and unceded lands of the Tongva (Gabrielino), Kizh, and Chumash peoples—Indigenous communities who have stewarded these lands since time immemorial. She honors their enduring presence, resistance, and cultural legacy, and uplifts the memory of those whose land, lives, and freedoms were taken through colonization.
Her monthly Death Cafè gatherings—currently held virtually—offer a gentle and grounding space to talk about death, dying, and what it means to truly live. Each gathering invites us to decolonize our relationship with mortality and return to communal rituals of remembrance, healing, and connection.
Together, we sip tea, speak truth, and hold space for the sacred cycle of life and death—centering the voices, needs, and traditions of the most marginalized.
I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional and unceded territory of the Tongva (Gabrielino), Kizh, and Chumash peoples in what is now known as Inglewood, California. I offer deep gratitude to the original stewards of this land—past, present, and emerging—who have resisted displacement and cared for this land through generations of violence and colonization.
As a doula, death worker, and community caretaker, I honor the Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and ceremonies that continue to shape how we care for each other in life and in death. May this work reflect a commitment to reparative action, remembrance, and relationship with the land and its people.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
What brings you to the Death Cafè?
My journey to the Death Cafè is rooted in storytelling, sacred witnessing, and a lifelong devotion to care work. As a full spectrum doula and death worker, I’ve been called to hold space at life’s thresholds—guiding families through birth, loss, terminal diagnoses, and the sacred transitions at the end of life.
I believe storytelling is one of our most powerful tools for healing. At the Death Cafè, I come to listen and to share—to honor the lives and legacies of those who’ve come before us, and to make space for the truths we carry about grief, death, and dying. I come to remember, to decolonize our relationship with death, and to center the voices of Black, Indigenous, POC, LGBTQIA2S+, and other marginalized communities whose stories are so often erased in end-of-life spaces.
These gatherings are where we return to each other—where we speak death back into the circle of life, not with fear, but with reverence, curiosity, and care.
What would you like your legacy to be?
What would you like your legacy to be?
I want my legacy to be one of care, courage, and collective remembering. I hope to be remembered as someone who helped others feel seen in their grief, held in their transitions, and honored in their stories. That I created space for Black, Indigenous, POC, LGBTQIA2S+ folks—and all those pushed to the margins—to speak about death, not with fear, but with power and presence.
I want my life’s work to remind people that grief is sacred, that death is not taboo, and that our ancestors walk with us still. If I can help even one person meet death with peace or live more fully because they faced their mortality, then I will have done what I came here to do.
Thoughts for sharing:
“We are witnessed, even at the end of our lives. You are seen. You are heard. Your life matters. Your death will too.”
— Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly HumanGoodreads+1SoBrief+1
These words from my mentor, Alua Arthur, encapsulate the essence of my calling. They remind me that every life and every death holds profound significance.
In my practice, I strive to create spaces where stories are shared, grief is honored, and every individual's journey is acknowledged. I believe that through storytelling and communal remembrance, we can decolonize our relationship with death and embrace it as a sacred part of life.
As Alua teaches, by confronting our mortality, we can live more authentically and fully. It's a lesson I carry into every Death Cafè gathering, inviting others to explore the depths of their humanity with compassion and courage.BookBrowse.com
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Bright Young Life Management LLC's posts on the Death Cafe website
Death Cafe: Zoom Virtual Death Cafe PST Hosted By Avery Bright
Posted by Bright Young Life Management LLC on May 25, 2025, 9:55 a.m.
With Avery Bright
June 25, 2025, 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. (PST )
Free
What brings you to the Death Cafè?
My journey to the Death Cafè is rooted in storytelling, sacred witnessing, and a lifelong devotion to care work. As a full spectrum ...
Death Cafe: Zoom Virtual Death Cafe PST Hosted By Avery Bright
Posted by Bright Young Life Management LLC on May 5, 2025, 1:01 p.m.
With Avery Bright
May 18, 2025, 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. (PST )
Free
What brings you to the Death Cafè?
My journey to the Death Cafè is rooted in storytelling, sacred witnessing, and a lifelong devotion to care work. As a full spectrum ...
Death Cafe write up: Zoom Virtual Death Cafe with Avery Bright
Posted by Bright Young Life Management LLC on April 22, 2025, 4:52 a.m.
About This Death Café
You're invited to join Avery Bright for a heart-centered virtual Death Café—an open and inclusive space to gather in community and talk about death, dying, grief, and everything in between. These events are offered as part of my death care and advocacy work through Bright Young Life Management.
At our monthly cafés, there is no set agenda—just an invitation to show up as you are. Through storytelling, compassionate conversation, and deep listening, we make room for reflection, healing, and connection across identities and experiences.
Death Cafe: Zoom Virtual Death Cafe with Avery Bright
Posted by Bright Young Life Management LLC on Feb. 16, 2022, 8:59 a.m.
With Avery Bright (she/her/they)
May 4, 2025, 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. (PST )
Accepts donations
About This Death Café
This virtual Death Café is hosted with heart and intention by Avery Bright of Bright Young Life Management, a full spectrum doula, death worker, and womanist ...