Feminist death advocates argue that the $20 billion funeral industry thrives on our society’s reluctance to face, or even think about, death. Because of this fear, and the established systems that shield us from healthy engagement with death, we’ve become death- and grief-illiterate. Women have fought for control over their bodies for centuries, in life and now in death, as modern women work to subvert patriarchal systems and once again take up the mantle of The Good Death. Death DoulasThe largest sector of the female-led death revolution is death doulas, women who are reclaiming their role at the deathbed. With women leading the way, we can create a future of death care that will improve not only how future generations die, but how they live.