If you or your family are navigating an active diagnosis or loss, call (206) 617‑1199. For emotional crisis, call or text 988 anytime.

Bainbridge Death Support

Modern deathcare, wherever you are.

Obituaries, checked before they print.
Private crisis support for families.
Legacy, cross-cultural ritual and remembrance.

Tech support toward death

Let’s open it while you’re still here.

The stories, the paperwork, the scaffolding of a life: the things that hold a family together after you’re gone. We mean it as love.

Obituaries

Help with the writing, or a place to write it yourselves.

Most families have never written an obituary, and it usually needs to be done within a day or two. There are two ways we can help.

With Us — from $349

Send us whatever you have, even if it's nothing yet. A person checks every name, date and relationship, writes or edits alongside you, and handles the newspaper submission, fees and word limits included.

On Your Own, with Obituate

One person holds the pen while relatives check every name, date and relationship against the marked proof. Writing, checking and newspaper-ready text are free, and stay in your browser. A permanent archive and document Kit is $149 once, waived for anyone who asks.

Documentary Video
& Oral History

Handmade Stationery

Custom Bookbinding

Memorial Websites

"Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today. To get through this thing called life."

Prince, Let's Go Crazy
Miranda Sita, founder of Bainbridge Death Support, looking straight into the camera outside a museum in late summer light.

who we are →

A deck of 35 prompts for families

Start the conversation.

Every story deserves to be told. Work with us →

If a prompt brings up something difficult, support is available at 988 anytime.

The Journal

We write when there's something worth saying: essays about the work, local events, practical notes on the details. It's a good way to get to know us before you need us.

"A fresh, brilliant thinker."

A client family

Pricing

What this costs.

Obituate
Free to write, check with family and export newspaper-ready text. The optional permanent archive and document Kit is $149 once.
The Read-Through — $349
You write it, a person checks it. Every name, date and relationship against the record, the omissions nobody noticed, and the newspaper-ready text. Back to you on the paper's deadline, agreed on the call.
Obituary Editing & Ghostwriting
When you would rather not hold the pen at all. Flat rates, quoted in one phone call.
Retained Family Engagements
Everything above, scoped to what your family needs and quoted by private proposal. These are substantial engagements and we only take a few at a time.

We keep a few reduced-rate spots each year. If the rates are out of reach, ask anyway. If we can't make room, we'll point you to community resources that can help.

Bainbridge Death Support calls home the ancestral lands of the Suquamish People (suq̀wabš, the People of Clear Salt Water) and their Coast Salish relatives, who have tended these shores and waters since time immemorial, and tend them still. It's God's country. We are so fortunate to be here.

If this place has given you something too, consider giving back through the Suquamish Foundation, which supports the Tribe's cultural revival, education, and community.

Call or text our monitored line at (206) 617‑1199 to leave a message or schedule a time to talk. Or book directly → Reserve 30 minutes

Not ready to connect yet? Read the Journal or join our newsletter and get to know our work quietly, from a distance. We don't update it often on purpose.

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