2025 Before I Die Festival and Fair Registration

The 8th annual Before I Die New Mexico Festival will take place with the Death is Not a Dirty Word Resource Fair as a one day event on Monday, October 13, 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Albuquerque at the First Unitarian Church, 3701 Carlisle Blvd. NE.

Festival/Fair activities include:

• All-day resource fair with a variety of end-of-life related exhibitors eager to answer your questions;
• Panel discussions on Plant Medicine/Psychedelic Therapy, End-of-Life Options and other topics;
• Death Café conversation;
• Mortality Movies TV show viewing;
• Wind Phones for people to talk to their deceased loved ones and pets;
• Music by local band ABQ Skeleton Crew.

The panel discussions will be available on Zoom and recorded for sharing on YouTube after the event. Raffle prizes will be drawn throughout the day at the resource fair.

Online sessions will be professionally coordinated by Keeper, which provides in-person and virtual memorial services and online memorial pages.

Choose your registration level:

Free online panel discussions - REGISTER HERE

• $0 - Registration available here - includes 10 free raffle tickets!
• $20 - Provides a list of Mortality Movies that Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, recommends you watch.
• $40 - Includes a copy of the book A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die.
• $60 - Includes a T-shirt from A Good Goodbye (Sizes M-L-XL-XXL).
• $80 - Includes a physical copy of The Newly-Dead® Game.
• $100 - Enjoy a Death Over Dinner and Mortality Movie Night with Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death!

A portion of the sponsorship proceeds and ticket sales from the Before I Die NM Festival will be donated to 501(c)(3) charitable partner, the New Mexico Deathcare Network.