The Death Positivity movement was launched by the Order of the Good Death, and is basically a movement to make death and dying less scary and mysterious. The core idea is that refusing to talk about death leads to secrecy, shame, and misinformation that allows predatory funeral homes to take advantage of grieving people, especially the marginalized.
The Order is about making death a part of your life. Staring down your death fears—whether it be your own death, the death of those you love, the pain of dying, the afterlife (or lack thereof), grief, corpses, bodily decomposition, or all of the above. Accepting that death itself is natural, but the death anxiety of modern culture is not.
They produce a ton of articles about death, dying, the funeral industry, cultural practices surrounding death, and how to prepare for your own death with things like a will or advanced directive. I highly recommend checking them out.
As far as how to teach it to kids, Order member Caitlin Doughty has a very serious but very good video about it on her YouTube channel, Ask a Mortician, which I highly recommend.
This particular video was produced in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, so it carries all of the associated trigger warnings with that, but it’s very good. She also linked an article on the subject, which you can find here.
She also has a video based around death questions submitted by kids, which is very good:
Also, Caitlin’s newest book, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, is centered entirely around questions that children have asked about death and dying.
