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Hi, I’m Julia.


For the last four years, I’ve worked as an Advanced Planning Specialist, helping families in my community understand the importance of pre-planning their funerals and how it can relieve both the emotional and financial burden of death. I chose this path out of a combination of passion and personal experience—there’s no other time in life when emotional distress, financial decisions, and the need for quick action collide so intensely. To connect with my clients, I begin by asking about their own experiences with death, acknowledging that while we all face it, we do so in vastly different ways.

Through thousands of conversations with families in the Harrisburg area, I’ve witnessed the lack of education and support surrounding death. As a funeral professional, I know we provide high-quality services, but there’s only so much we can do. While this wasn’t my dream career, it has become my life’s work. The most raw, emotional experience of our lives needs more support, and that’s why I created Death Culture. It’s necessary, and it’s my passion to ensure others are supported as they navigate it.

My experiences and education have shaped my career and fueled my passion for creating a better death culture. After studying political science and public relations at Temple University, I realized I needed more before committing to a career. At 24, I left my job to travel the world alone—through the Andes mountains, African tribal communities, and the historical cities of Europe. I sought to understand how people live. To my surprise, the best way to understand a culture is through the historical death experience. This journey inspired me to study education and history during the pandemic when I could no longer travel. Eventually, I discovered pre-planning funerals, an unexpected but deeply rewarding career path.

In America, we can do better when it comes to death. The divide in our communities contributes to the disconnection and disappointment in death culture. Through the resources we create, I aim to help bridge this divide and prevent people from suffering alone. Death is not an isolated event—it’s universal, and we all share it. Let’s not let each other face it alone.

I'm Andrea


I’ve dedicated my career to helping people. For the past decade I’ve focused on helping high school students chart their path to college through my work at Signet Education. I love taking a human-centered approach to solving problems, especially when our broader societal structures make this challenging.

I know from personal experience that supporting a loved one through death is isolating and overwhelming. When no one talks about it, it’s hard to feel grounded and confident in any decision you make. And, there are many. I’ve since made it a personal mission to use my experiences to help other people in my life.

Death is a human experience and we must keep our humanity at the center. But, we cannot ignore or deny the system around us. Through Death Culture, my hope is that education is the key to easing the burden on all sides. The more I can help others learn about themselves and the world around them, I hope to create a more humane experience.



Hey- I'm Mike!


I'm an entrepreneur running Green Lion Innovations, a cannabis product design and manufacturing business, and advising Whoopi and Maya, a wellness brand focused on menstruation-related issues. I hope to incorporate social equity and improve efficiencies through all of my work – making things better, simpler, and more accessible for those who need it.

After losing multiple very close family members and friends within a short timeframe, I was forced to confront grief head-on. These experiences transformed my relationship with death and mortality, pushing me to question our conventional approaches to the process of dying and explore how acknowledging life's finite nature changes how we live.

Death Culture merges my personal journey with my professional experiences – how can we make death suck less? Death Culture tackles the emotional weight and practical bullshit of dying in 2025, creating straightforward solutions that help people navigate death with less confusion and more humanity.