Deathfat envisions new theologies and practices of deathcare and conceives of spaces, physically and spiritually, which center fat bodies. Imagining fat futures is a project dependent on care and precarity, it asks us to abandon this false sense that bodies can be moral and healthy in a way that precludes them from vulnerability. There are certain identities, like fatness, which have been made more intimately aware of their own precarity, who have contemplated more seriously their own deaths, the fragility of their health, and the subsequent barriers to care and access that our society has failed to deem important enough to move out of the way. Deathfat is a framework that responds to precarity, instead of rejecting the very real political powers and norms that keep fat people from more pleasurable and dignified engagements with their bodies, health, and deaths. Deathfat demands vulnerability and care as necessary toward reimagined fat lives, deaths, funerals, and hopefully, futures.

As a deathworker, theologian, and fat person, Isabella Carr is familiar with the unique concerns that fat people face at death and after. She is committed to providing compassionate end-of-life support which better prepares fat people and their loved ones for the spiritual and practical elements of dying.