Coming this Winter, my new book. Will post when available, electronically and hard copies alike, with an audio version coming late summer. From the back cover: You feel it, yet again. The draw, the fascination, with death, dying, and mourning. You see an article or video on these topics, and can’t resist clicking. Friends and Read more about Coming Soon! Death & Mourning Doula Discernment Book[…]
Explore some famous epitaphs on this wonderful story map brought to us by RHC Funerals. Enjoy! From RHC Funerals – to learn more visit: http://www.rhcfunerals.co.uk/funeral-choices/repatriation.html
Enjoy this remarkable Infographic created by RCH Funerals
Perhaps it’s the secret you don’t share. Or if you do, most don’t understand you’re fascination with all (or many) things death and mourning. You get that it’s strange in the eyes of most people, that we live in a culture that goes to great extremes to avoid discussing death. Sure, people are constantly dying on Read more about Drawn to the World of Death & Mourning?[…]
As always, if you’re interested in learning more about becoming a death and mourning doula, check out our Momdoulary Passages 6-in-1 Training Program at MourningDoula.com. You can develop a new career in under a year, for about the cost of a little of a year’s worth of daily coffee at a chain coffee store. Many students re-coup Read more about The Last Chapter: Dying Well[…]
“Folks ask me to come and stay with their loved ones ’til someone comes from the funeral home to pick them up, you know, because I’m a nurse, and they don’t want to stay with the dead body. Of their own loved one,” she said, incredulous. “I guess I get it, maybe they’re afraid of Read more about Sitting With the Dead[…]
Coffin birth is as sad, and eerie, as it sounds: Known as Postmortem Extrusion, it’s the expulsion of a non-viable fetus through the vaginal opening of a decomposing female. Essentially it’s the result of the build-up of gas, which applies pressure to the uterus, causing it to be expelled, and sometimes turned inside out. The Read more about What is Coffin Birth?[…]
You can now watch “Frontline’s” show, “Being Mortal” online. Tune in to explore “The intersection of life, death, medicine, and what it means to be at the end.” This is an interesting look at end-of-life support and issues, and it is currently being streamed on PBS. Just click this link here to check Read more about Watch “Being Mortal” Online[…]
Do you hunger to feel more connected to life? To feel more alive? Even less afraid? Do you want to feel more deeply to others? To loved ones? To your community? Do you ache to feel a deeper connection to God or to develop a spiritual connection? I’m going to tell you a little Read more about Are You Ready to Take Death Back?[…]
Thanks to Caleb of “Confessions of a Funeral Director” at www.CalebWilde.com for posting this great infographic:
