A living mosaic
for a great death

At my mother Lynn's life celebration, her friends and family painted hexagonal tiles together — each one a small blessing, a little prayer, a burst of color — then arranged them in a rainbow around her coffin, so she could be carried into whatever comes next surrounded by every color of love.

The question at the heart of this project came from a different moment: a Día de los Muertos interactive art experience where we asked strangers, What would a great death look like? People stopped. They thought. They wrote their answers and read each other's — and something opened up in those conversations that we want to keep alive.

Now we're weaving both of those gestures into something new. Create a virtual tile on our living mosaic. Dedicate it to yourself, or to someone you love — here or gone. Add your vision of what a great death means to you, and let's build something together: a community of people who believe the end of life deserves as much intention, color, and love as any of it.