(stolen from rpg.net)

the Society of the Noble Dead:

The Society exists to facilitate contact between various Dead Nobilis. Many of the Dead Nobilis face problems which living Nobilis do not; this can pose a particularly dangerous hazard for freshly enNobled Dead. The Society is open to all Dead Nobilis, regardless of Code affiliation. However, until further notice the Society will meet in a predetermined point on the World Ash, as some Nobilis regard the sheer volume of newcomers to their Chancels as a security risk. The Society's secondary aims include the following:

Gather information on the fate of Dead Nobilis if their bodies or spirit-forms are rendered nonexistent so that they die a second time.

Locate new types of Dead Nobilis; the variety of the Dead must nearly match the variety of the living, since most that was Dead was once Alive.

Protect the Estates of Death, Memory, Cemeteries, and similarly grave/Dead-related concepts in existence. Without these, it would be difficult for Dead Nobilis to exist at all.