Nurse and volunteer Ana Kanellos, left, demonstrates home caregiving techniques on Liz Dunnebacke, executive director of Wake, during the free Community Deathcare Provider Training at the Healing Center in New Orleans on Sept. 6, 2025. Wake is a nonprofit organization providing education and resources for death care. (Photo by Christiana Botic/Verite News and CatchLight Local/Report for America)
Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be.
Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table that was dressed as a bed, complaining that her legs hurt. Registered nurse Ana Kanellos, rolling up two small white towels, demonstrated how to elevate her ankles to ease the pain…