Nella stared at her fish floating on the water in their bowl. I was struck by her silence… so I stood quietly beside her and stared too. Perhaps it was disbelief, shock, sadness, fear maybe? I couldn’t tell, but something was happening to her...
Caring for our loved ones between the time of death and burial or cremation, is an ancient tradition that can be traced to earliest civilizations. During the past 100 years however, this once family-directed tradition has been gradually taken over by professional...
Stacy, a birth doula, wife and mother of three beautiful girls called me – she was crying – her 18-yr old daughter Zoe was dying. “I birthed her in, I need to birth her out,” Stacy declared emphatically. “Can you help me?” Her own...
It was certainly not my life plan to be a death midwife. Born and raised in rural England, I trained as a music teacher for special needs children and put myself through college working as a nursing assistant. After a year in the classroom I was safely within the...
A short film illustrating the home funeral process. Dorothy called Sacred Crossings because she wanted put her things in order. She had a heart condition and cancer but at 95 she felt it wasn’t necessary to have treatment, “I’m going to die anyway so what’s the...
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