End-of-life guides are non-medical support people who understand the process—logistically, physically, spiritually and emotionally—of dying.
Working with a guide to plan your end-of-life takes stress and pressure off of your loved ones to make big decisions for your care while they are in grief and wanting to spend time with you.
Dying is not merely a medical event; it is a transformative and sacred experience for everyone involved. Engaging with an end-of-life guide offers essential support to the dying individual and their loved ones. These guides are available to answer questions about the dying process, ensure that death wishes are respected, provide companionship, and facilitate guided meditations for all participants in the journey of dying.
There are so many possibilities for ceremony with death. End-of-life Guides offer education to families and loved ones on how to sit vigil, creating a caring and comforting environment to die. Guides can assist with life review exercises, facilitating an exercise that allows for healing or closure. Ceremony for pet death or facilitation of goodbye, we’re able to work with you to support you through transitions.
Grief needs to be witnessed.
We understand that the dying process is only one aspect of loss. There is no right way to grieve, no linear process to your relationships of love.
Conversations around death demystify the process of dying and ground people’s perceptions in realities instead of projecting fear.
Workshops on advanced care planning and post-death options, death cafes, and more creative events that play with conversations around death - like Death Over Dinner - are all transformative ways to engage in the contemplation of our lives and mortality.
Gathering with people and talking about what is so often taboo to talk about reminds us that death is natural, and the fears we have are shared opportunities to learn and connect.
Your body, your choice.
But so often we don’t know the options available to us. We have relied on the traditional funeral model because we were’t aware of Living Funerals, Green Burials, or Home Funerals. As a part of the planning process, we share information on options available to you and your loved ones so you are empowered to make decisions for death that honor your life.