Discover What Matters Most
Recorded Thursday, November 20, 2025
This webinar is centered around Diane Button’s new best-selling book, What Matters Most, a collection of profound and life-changing stories from end-of-life clients who she calls the “wisdomkeepers.” Join Diane and her partners, Franck Battelli, Hannah Button, and Sarah Hill, all death doulas who have accompanied countless people through their final days, while they share some unforgettable stories from the book that shine a light on what truly matters as death draws near, and how you can use these insights to guide your own life…starting today.
Diane Button is a founding partner of the Bay Area End-of-Life Doula Alliance and a best-selling author of several books related to end-of-life, meaningful living, and the growing impact of death doulas worldwide.
She is an instructor at the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program and holds a master’s in counseling psychology from Goddard College in Vermont. Her master’s thesis, The Components of a Meaningful Life, became the genesis for her life’s work of supporting people to find meaning, comfort, joy, and peace in life and in death.
Her books include Dear Death: Finding Meaning in Life, Peace in Death, and Joy in an Ordinary Day which combines the insights gained from working with hospice and doula clients in their final days and The Doula Tool Kit: The Complete Practical Guide for End-of-Life Doulas & Caregivers, co-authored by Angela Shook and Gabby Jimenez. What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living is her latest book, written at the invitation of Maria Shriver and published by Penguin Random House. It is available everywhere books are sold.
You can learn more about her at www.dianebutton.com.
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Embracing End of Life (EEoL) Community Education Series
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