I recently received a rather curt email from a birth midwife asking all of us who support others at the end of life to stop using the terms Death Doula and Death Midwife. She wrote: “Please stop using the word midwife and doula in the dying context. We...
Regine was a free spirit with a passion for life and a love of the ocean. Her friend Kato Wittich contacted me and asked if Sacred Crossings could help carry out her wishes for a home funeral and full-body sea burial. “I read Regine the option for sea...
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...
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