Diary of a Death Midwife
Freya’s Journey Home – A Horse Burial
Death Midwifery for animals is much the same as it is for humans - we help create a sacred container for dying to happen with ease and grace and we guide the family through rituals to help process grief. I have known and loved this beautiful Gypsy Vanner mare...
A Green Burial for Rufus
Rufus was a caretaker, of plants and dogs and sheep and chickens – he tended to things and helped them grow. Rufus was a loner who loved to sit by the fire and listen to the radio, he enjoyed lazy strolls through the forest and riding his electric bike to town...
Midwifing Birth and Death
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 wouldn’t...
Regine’s Home Funeral and Sea Burial
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 burial...
Caring for the Dead
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 consciousness as...
The Case for Home Funerals
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...
Sissy Mama
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 experience of death when she...
Why I Became a Death Midwife…
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...
Take Me Home: The Movie
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...
Roseanne
This means that a judge has appointed a conservator who has never met her and knows nothing about her to make all her decisions. Roseanne outlived all her family and was living contentedly with her cats in a rambling house in the San Fernando Valley until I took...

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The Advance Death Care Directive
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