Certified Thanatologist, Advance Care Workshops, End-of-Life Consulting, Grief and Death Education and Workshops, Keynote and Professional Speaker. Practically Dying has a wide variety of entertaining, informative and inspiring presentations for your conference, group, organization or professional workplace. Kim Mooney, Certified Thanatologist, founder of Practically Dying, TV and radio show host and author, Kim Mooney has won national awards for innovative approaches to death support and education, most recently the international Association of Death Education and Counseling’s 2018 Community Educator award. Prior to founding Practically Dying in 2014, Kim worked for more than two decades within hospice at local, state and national levels. During those years, she cultivated a broad set of skills in end-of-life care, crisis intervention and grief support, recognizing that deaths of all kinds in all communities require different kinds of emotional, spiritual and mental understanding and assistance. She also learned deeply that the most important thing about death is the life that comes before it. As an independent consultant for faith communities, educational institutions, civic and community groups, medical and health care agencies, and mental health organizations, Kim has created and facilitated programs for school districts, corporations, caregiver and volunteer organizations, faith communities and other community groups.