Jul 6, 2023

Why we’re fascinated: Because death becomes her. Gatto, the coordinator of public programs for the Green-Wood Cemetery, is a death educator at the cemetery and a death doula. She is constantly thinking about the one thing we all fear the most. And she makes it … kind of fun? Check out one of the salon-style “death cafes” she hosts regularly at the cemetery. Death education, per Gatto, is an umbrella term for studies and activities that explore the historical, cultural and emotional aspects about understanding and accepting death. “Which I think is pretty cool because for me, it’s getting comfortable with the uncomfortable truth,” she told us earlier this year. “We’re all going to die.”

— Brian Braiker