Gail Rubin
Entertain, educate, and motivate your audience to plan ahead for end-of-life issues with Gail Rubin! Laugh and learn with humor, games and film clips.
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, 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. 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, 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. 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.
Mortality in Popular Culture
Hollywood films and television programs provide memorable opportunities to discuss death, learn about grief, encourage people to make advance medical directives, and plan for our 100% guaranteed mortality. Using movie and TV clips, audiences will learn about:
1. Grief and Mourning: different grieving styles and other elements of thanatology, the study of death, dying and bereavement.
2. Medicine and Mortality: Treatment choices, hospice versus intensive interventions, life...
I See Dead People: Death on Hospice
- Format: 60 minute keynote
This program is perfect for:
- Continuing education for hospice workers and funeral staff
- Public outreach about hospice and end-of-life planning
The audience will leave with:
Increased sensitivity to patient/caregiver/family needs both in at-home and in-patient hospice care settings.
Meaningful gestures to improve death...
Hidden Grief in the Workplace
The widespread losses incurred during the pandemic can negatively impact employee productivity. Help your employees understand grief in the workplace with "Hidden Grief in the Workplace."
Objectives for this session are to:
- Help employees understand the many losses caused by the pandemic.
- Recognize that reactions to grief and loss vary widely and how they may manifest. For example, using film clips, Gail illustrates the difference between intuitive and...
Your Customers are Discussing Death, Where are You?
For those in the insurance, estate planning, hospice, funeral and cemetery businesses, this talk has insights into death discussion movements that have sprung up in the US, the UK, and worldwide over the past 10 years. Tens of thousands of participants flock to these events, online and in-person.
Learn how to connect with your community through:
- Hosting local Death Café discussions.
- Holding a Before I Die Festival with entertaining and educational...
Jewish Funeral Traditions on Film
Did you know Jewish burial is naturally green burial? That current attitudes regarding organ donation, suicides, and cremation have changed for many Jews?
Jewish traditions regarding death and dying, the funeral, the treatment of the body, burial, mourning, and annual remembrances are very different from Christian practices. This talk illuminates the differences and similarities of these funeral traditions - highly beneficial for interfaith families and the funeral directors...
Movies, Medicine and Mortality
Medical personnel, patients and families face The Grim Reaper in hospitals every single day. This presentation looks at ways medical personnel can effectively address their on-the-job stress and grief. Featuring film clips from movies and TV shows, audiences laugh and learn communication and stress management skills.
This program supplies Continuing Education Credits for hospice and medical education conferences.
Kicking the Bucket List: Downsizing & Organizing for End-of-Life
Workers lose productivity when distracted by clutter and unanswered questions about end-of-life issues. This upbeat talk illustrates estate, medical and funeral planning issues with photos from Gail's book, KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die, and clips from comedy films and television programs. You'll learn:
• Three easy ways to de-stress downsizing.
• Key information your loved ones need before someone dies.
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