Gail Rubin
CT, Certified in Thanatology
NM, USEntertain, educate, and motivate your audience to plan ahead for end-of-life issues with Gail Rubin! Laugh and learn with humor, films, and outside-the-box activities.
Hidden grief at work impacts productivity.
Even though we all die, less than 30% of adults do any end-of-life planning. That means employees lose productivity, association members stress, unprepared family members scramble for information and financial resources, and no one knows what to do. It doesn't have to be that way. Gail Rubin can help your people be prepared for the only inevitability in life - and have fun doing it.
Gail Rubin, CT, works with organizations to connect with baby boomers and their millennial children concerned about end-of-life issues. She is an award-winning speaker and author of A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die and Kicking the Bucket List: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die.
Gail Rubin is a Certified Thanatologist, a pioneering death educator who uses humor, film clips and outside the box activities to teach about end-of-life issues. She's been called "The Joan Jett of death education," a rock star in this field. She's also a Certified Funeral Celebrant, coordinator of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival, creator of the Newly-Dead® Games, one of the first Death Cafe hosts in the US, an expert in Jewish funeral traditions, a breast cancer survivor, and a film connoisseur.
She can provide continuing education credits with her presentations to medical, legal, financial planning, hospice and other professionals. Gail speaks at national, state and regional conventions, to businesses and for religious and community groups. She can also connect your organization to the general public. She "knocked 'em dead" as a speaker at TEDxABQ in 2015. The Association for Death Education and Counseling gave her their prestigious Community Educator Award in 2024.
Gail has been quoted in numerous national and local articles and broadcast interviews on funeral planning and end-of-life issues, including The New York Times, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, AARP.com, Entrepreneur.com, Money Magazine, BankRate.com, The Huffington Post, The Denver Post, The Albuquerque Journal, and American Funeral Director Magazine. She has been interviewed on WGN-TV, local TV affiliates of NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX, and local NPR stations.
The Association for Death Education and Counseling recognized her work with their 2024 Community Educator Award. Albuquerque Business First named her one of their 2019 Women of Influence.
In a previous lifetime, Gail was a TV producer at C-SPAN and public relations professional. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and served as the president of the New Mexico chapter in 2019-2020.
Hidden grief at work impacts productivity.
Even though we all die, less than 30% of adults do any end-of-life planning. That means employees lose productivity, association members stress, unprepared family members scramble for information and financial resources, and no one knows what to do. It doesn't have to be that way. Gail Rubin can help your people be prepared for the only inevitability in life - and have fun doing it.
Gail Rubin, CT, works with organizations to connect with baby boomers and their millennial children concerned about end-of-life issues. She is an award-winning speaker and author of A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die and Kicking the Bucket List: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die.
Gail Rubin is a Certified Thanatologist, a pioneering death educator who uses humor, film clips and outside the box activities to teach about end-of-life issues. She's been called "The Joan Jett of death education," a rock star in this field. She's also a Certified Funeral Celebrant, coordinator of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival, creator of the Newly-Dead® Games, one of the first Death Cafe hosts in the US, an expert in Jewish funeral traditions, a breast cancer survivor, and a film connoisseur.
She can provide continuing education credits with her presentations to medical, legal, financial planning, hospice and other professionals. Gail speaks at national, state and regional conventions, to businesses and for religious and community groups. She can also connect your organization to the general public. She "knocked 'em dead" as a speaker at TEDxABQ in 2015. The Association for Death Education and Counseling gave her their prestigious Community Educator Award in 2024.
Gail has been quoted in numerous national and local articles and broadcast interviews on funeral planning and end-of-life issues, including The New York Times, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, AARP.com, Entrepreneur.com, Money Magazine, BankRate.com, The Huffington Post, The Denver Post, The Albuquerque Journal, and American Funeral Director Magazine. She has been interviewed on WGN-TV, local TV affiliates of NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX, and local NPR stations.
The Association for Death Education and Counseling recognized her work with their 2024 Community Educator Award. Albuquerque Business First named her one of their 2019 Women of Influence.
In a previous lifetime, Gail was a TV producer at C-SPAN and public relations professional. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and served as the president of the New Mexico chapter in 2019-2020.
Hidden Grief in the Workplace: Recognizing Loss and Supporting Employees
Grief doesn’t stay home when employees come to work. Death, divorce, caregiving, illness, and other major life changes can affect concentration, relationships, and workplace performance. Yet many employees feel pressured to hide their grief and carry on as usual.
In this insightful and compassionate presentation, Certified...
Death Cafes, Mortality Movies and Other Creative Community Connectors
People don’t want to talk about death. Or do they? Across the country and around the world, creative programs are bringing people together for lively, meaningful conversations about mortality.
Gail Rubin, a pioneer of the Death Café movement in the United States and coordinator of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival, shares...
Lights, Camera, Compassion: What Movies Teach Us About Grief & Loss
Hollywood has been teaching us about death and grief for more than a century. Sometimes movies make us laugh, sometimes they make us cry, and often they help us understand feelings that are difficult to put into words.
Drawing on her book 98.6 Mortality...
Medical Aid in Dying: Understanding Choices at the End of Life
When a beloved pet is suffering with a terminal illness, we can offer a peaceful death. Why do the options for people facing unbearable suffering look so different?
Medical aid in dying (MAID) is one of the most important and frequently misunderstood issues in contemporary end-of-life care. Drawing on her award-winning 2025...
We Can Do That? New Trends in Death Care and Green Burial Options
Forget everything you thought you knew about funerals. Today’s families have more options than ever for creating meaningful, personalized, and environmentally conscious goodbyes.
From green burial and home funerals to alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction, and creative memorial celebrations, the funeral landscape is...
Kicking the Bucket List: Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die
We spend a lifetime accumulating possessions, paperwork, passwords, and responsibilities. What happens to it all when we’re gone? And who gets stuck sorting it out?
In this upbeat, practical presentation, Gail Rubin shares lessons from her book Kicking the...
Jewish Funeral Traditions on Film: Understanding Customs, Rituals and Meaning
What can Hollywood teach us about Jewish funeral traditions? Quite a lot, especially when familiar movie scenes become starting points for exploring centuries-old customs.
Gail Rubin, Certified Thanatologist, Certified Funeral Celebrant, and an expert in Jewish funeral traditions, uses clips from films and television programs to...
Laughing and Learning: A Practical End-of-Life Planning Workshop
Talking about sex won’t make you pregnant, and talking about funerals won’t make you dead! With that philosophy, Gail Rubin makes one of life’s most uncomfortable subjects surprisingly entertaining.
In this lively, interactive workshop, The Doyenne of Death® uses humor, film clips, and practical exercises to help participants...
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