Your Support Keeps Our Doors Open and Our Beds Filled With Those Who Need Us Most.

Mission: We offer compassionate, interfaith and spiritual care in a contemplative community so those who are dying leave this world with dignity and grace. We teach the art of contemplative living and dying.
Vision: We live in a world where death is not feared, and we live fully until we die.

Mission: We offer compassionate, interfaith and spiritual care in a contemplative community so those who are dying leave this world with dignity and grace. We teach the art of contemplative living and dying.
Vision: We live in a world where death is not feared, and we live fully until we die.
ABODE is Home
Most of us would prefer to die at home. It’s not easy to do. Perhaps you can no longer live by yourself. Or your home isn’t conducive to a quiet, peaceful death. Or perhaps your loved ones now need help caring for you around-the-clock.
We are the only 501(c)(3) nonprofit end-of-life care home in San Antonio offering contemplative care for those in the last three months, weeks or days of life. We provide our service at no charge to our Guests, hospice or insurance. We welcome and depend on the generosity of you – our donors – to support our sacred work.
We are here to serve you during your most tender of days.
“You matter because you are you. You matter until the last moment of your life and we will do all that we can do, not only to help you die peacefully, but to live until you die.”
– Dame Cicely Saunders
How You Can Help
Your financial support is key to helping us cover our operating costs – and we have plenty of great volunteer projects. On top of that? Please help us spread the good word. Read and share our award-winning newsletter and follow and share our social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
How You Can Help
Your financial support is key to helping us cover our operating costs – and we have plenty of great volunteer projects. On top of that? Please help us spread the good word. Read and share our award-winning newsletter and follow and share our social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
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Latest News

Launching Jan. 14: ABODE Academy 2
Whether you’re interested in learning more about death and dying, you’re in the hospice field and want to partner with us or you’re already an ABODE volunteer – or considering volunteering – this is a wonderful way to become acquainted with ABODE and all we do – and how we can support one another’s success.

Launching Jan. 12: ABODE Book Club and Study Group
We’ll read and discuss the book that helped influence ABODE’s beginnings: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax.

New! Shop ‘Til You Drop at Our ABODE Boutique
Welcome to our ABODE Boutique, featuring art, books, cards, candles and a growing collection of wonderful pieces. Everything here has been donated to ABODE, with proceeds supporting our mission. So shop ’til you drop! We’ll figure out how to get your items to you if you’re unable to pick them up at ABODE.
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Upcoming Events

ABODE Academy 2
6-Week ABODE Academy Whether you’re interested in learning more about death and dying, you’re in the hospice field and want to partner with us or you’re already an ABODE volunteer – or considering volunteering – this is a wonderful way to become acquainted with ABODE...

ABODE Book Club and Study Group
We’ll read and discuss the book that helped influence ABODE’s beginnings: Being with Dying by Joan Halifax. The group meets 6:30-7:30 p.m. via Zoom, the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, starting Jan. 12. RSVP today!
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