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DEATH & DYING COURSES

🎉 Our Academy-wide rollout has begun! 2-5 new courses launch each week! We're releasing 150+ free courses across multiple topics in waves. Our Death & Dying Courses are scheduled to go LIVE BEFORE Christmas 2026!

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Everything IFS Academy is a free and low cost global multi-topic learning center designed to meet people wherever they are on the path to becoming their best selves. We believe financial barriers should never stand in the way of anyone's personal growth and spiritual development, so this is our gift to the community.

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Death is the one thing every human being shares, and the one thing we are least prepared for. This series speaks plainly about dying, grief, end-of-life decisions, and what different traditions believe comes next, written in plain, relatable language for everyday people, whether you are facing your own mortality, walking beside someone you love, or simply ready to stop looking away.

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Free Courses

  • Open instantly to everyone

  • 150+ self-paced courses to choose from

  • No tests, quizzes, or homework

  • No account required

  • No sign-up

  • No email gate

  • Take the course in sequential order or jump around according to your interest

 

Simply select a course below and begin.

Four religious figures and statues representing different spiritual traditions, including Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, and Hinduism, symbolizing diverse beliefs about the afterlife

Afterlife Models Across Traditions

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore how major religions, spiritual traditions, and secular perspectives understand what may happen after death, offering a respectful overview of the world's most common beliefs about the afterlife.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

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Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Newly added: more info coming soon. 

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A dying woman surrounded by loved ones performing a peaceful bedside ritual with candles, incense, and gentle presence, honoring the transition at the end of life

Ceremonies & Rituals for the Dying

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn how ceremonies, prayers, blessings, music, meaningful objects, and personal rituals can bring comfort, dignity, and connection during the final chapter of life.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

An elderly woman lying in bed with a fearful expression while a shadowy hooded figure resembling death stands in the background, symbolizing fear and awareness of approaching death

Death Anxiety

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Understand why fear of death arises, what commonly fuels it, and practical ways to relate to mortality with greater clarity, compassion, and emotional steadiness.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Three-panel image showing different death and burial practices, including a traditional casket funeral, cremation with flames, and a natural or green burial wrapped in cloth

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Compare burial, cremation, green burial, body donation, alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction, and other end-of-life options to make informed decisions with confidence.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

An elderly hand resting on a bed beside a handwritten list of life regrets, illuminated by a soft candle, evoking reflection, missed opportunities, and end-of-life contemplation

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore the most common regrets people express near the end of life and how these timeless lessons can help shape the choices you make while you are still living.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Elderly man sitting at a wooden desk in soft daylight, carefully signing legal documents, with personal items like keys, photographs, and a lamp arranged neatly around him, suggesting end-of-life planning and getting affairs in order

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Prepare practical, legal, financial, digital, and personal affairs before death, helping reduce stress for yourself and the people you love during an already difficult time.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Four-panel image showing older adults expressing intense emotions—distress, pleading, despair, and quiet reflection—symbolizing the emotional stages often experienced in the process of dying

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn the five stages of dying, where the famous model came from, its strengths and limitations, and how real people often move through dying in deeply individual ways.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A woman sitting on the floor beside a bed, crying with her head in her hand, expressing intense grief, emotional pain, and loss

Grief

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore the grief that can arise while facing your own death, including the losses, unfinished hopes, relationships, and life changes that often accompany the dying process.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A caregiver or nurse gently tending to a terminally ill patient resting in bed at home, with medical equipment nearby, illustrating compassionate end-of-life care outside of a hospital setting

Dying at Home & Hospice

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Discover the planning, medical support, caregiving resources, hospice services, and home preparations that can make dying at home a realistic option for many people.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A group of people sitting together making handmade items like beaded jewelry, sharing connection and creativity as part of a meaningful legacy project at the end of life

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Create meaningful gifts that outlive you through letters, recordings, memory books, ethical wills, family stories, personal reflections, and other lasting expressions of love.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A terminally ill man in bed smiling as he looks through photos with a loved one beside him, sharing a moment of connection, warmth, and presence while nearing the end of life

Living Fully While Dying 

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore practical ways to find purpose, connection, joy, and meaning after a terminal diagnosis, making the most of the time that remains without denying life's realities.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A patient undergoing surgery surrounded by a medical team while a translucent figure rises above the body, symbolizing a near-death or out-of-body experience

Near-Death Experiences

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Examine the research, common themes, scientific explanations, and personal accounts surrounding near-death experiences from both medical and spiritual perspectives.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A collection of framed family photographs displayed on a wooden table, representing love, connection, and the importance of preserving memories when preparing children for the loss of a parent

Supporting Children Through Your Death

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn age-appropriate ways to prepare children for your death through honest conversations, emotional support, memory-making, and ongoing sources of comfort and connection.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A lifeless hand resting gently on a bed under soft natural light, with muted tones and stillness conveying the quiet finality and peace of death

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore the most common fears people have about dying and death, why they arise, and thoughtful ways to understand and relate to them with greater clarity.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

A caregiver gently holding the hand of a terminally ill patient in bed, sharing a quiet, intimate moment of support, connection, and presence at the end of life

Walking Someone Through Death

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn how to support someone who is dying with practical care, compassionate presence, communication skills, and an understanding of the physical and emotional changes that may occur.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

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Final Months of Life

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Understand the common phases, symptoms, behaviors, and emotional shifts that often unfold as death approaches, helping you recognize what is normal and meet this season with less fear.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

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When Dying Isn't Beautiful

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

An honest look at the harder side of dying, including pain, fear, family conflict, difficult symptoms, and unresolved endings, offered with compassion and without pretending.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Who Writes Our Free Courses

Our free self-paced courses are a genuine human-AI collaboration, roughly 50% human and 50% AI.

 

These courses are not someone typing a single prompt and publishing whatever comes out.

 

We do not use a free or entry-level AI. We invest in one of the most advanced professional-tier AI models available, because the depth and accuracy of writing at this level is in a different league from what most people experience with low-cost AI.

 

While AI models arrive with extensive training across these topics, we never rely on that alone. Before drafting a single lesson, the AI performs in-depth research on that specific topic, pulling from resources written by qualified experts in the field: published books, professional essays, clinical resources, and articles from practitioners and specialists with relevant credentials. Every draft is grounded in that expert-created material, not generated from thin air.

 

With that said, whether something is written entirely by humans, entirely by AI, or by the two working together, errors can occur. We encourage readers to verify important information and consult a qualified professional in the relevant area wherever appropriate.

 

For those who would like more specifics, here is the six-step process behind every course:

 

1. Humans design the courses and set the teaching standards and outlines
 

2. Humans shape the arc of each lesson
 

3. AI conducts deep, highly specific research on each individual lesson topic before drafting the lesson
 

4. Humans review, direct, and run multiple edits alongside AI
 

5. Humans approves every lesson before it's published
 

6. Each finished course then goes to Eleven Labs, where it's recorded by one of their AI voices

 

We have poured a tremendous amount of time, care, and love into these free courses, in the hope that they help you become your best Self.

 

Looking for Something Live?

 

If you're looking for a social community, here are free live online support groups, recovery groups, healing circles, spiritual gatherings, book clubs, IFS demos, parts work practices, study groups, and more happening every day.

 

 

And starting later in 2027, Everything IFS Academy will be running free weekly live classes on a variety of topics.

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Disclaimer: Everything IFS Academy is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the IFS Institute. These courses, lessons, and practices are offered for educational and self-reflection purposes only. They discuss death, dying, grief, and end-of-life care openly and honestly, and some material may be emotionally heavy; please move at your own pace and step away whenever you need to. These courses are not medical, legal, or financial advice, and decisions about end-of-life care, hospice, advance directives, wills, or the care of a dying person should always be made with the appropriate qualified professionals. Courses exploring afterlife beliefs present traditions from many cultures without requiring you to adopt any particular belief system. These courses do not constitute therapy, grief counseling, mental health treatment, clinical training, or crisis support, and they should not be used as a substitute for professional mental health care.


Crisis Support: 🚨 If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, feel unsafe, feel at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or feel too overwhelmed to safely use self-directed practices, please pause this material and reach out for immediate support. Contact a licensed mental health professional, call or text 988 in the U.S. or Canada, or use your local emergency or crisis resources.

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