The Institute for Conscious Dying and Alternative Funeral Home

Changing the Culture of Death and Dying

The Sacred Crossings Alternative Funeral Home in Los Angeles, CA offers a complete range of funeral services including Home Funerals, Green Burials, Sea Burials, Direct Cremations and Funeral Celebrant services.

The Sacred Crossings Institute offers classes and workshops in End-of-Life preparedness and Death Doula and Death Midwife certificate training programs.

The Advance Death Care Directive

Would you prefer a Shroud? Casket? Cremation? Green Burial? Sea Burial? Funeral Service?
There are so many decisions!
Write your wishes down in this digital planner.
“This is a great booklet! I didn’t want to talk about these things, but it was easy to write them down. I feel a sense of peace and relief now I’ve filled this out.” - Helga, UK

Meet the Founder

Rev. Olivia Bareham

Olivia is a certified Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide, Funeral Celebrant, founder of the Sacred Crossings Institute and co-founder of the Sacred Crossings Funeral Home. Learn more about her story at The Death Midwife…

“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Los Angeles, CA 90025