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Pan-Death Movement
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Why use Services?

Death Midwifery
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Web of Facets,
Advantages of a DM,
CINDEA Recognition,
Philosophy in Practice

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Final Affairs,
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Dementia

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Why Consider It,
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ecological disposition

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BMOHAH Teachers and Students Blog

A Family Undertaking ~ Such a Beautiful Film, A Student's Perspective

A Family Undertaking

The By My Own Heart and Hand training program starts with the documentary "A Family Undertaking".  This is the overview that PBS gives "Aug 3, 2004,  The film "A Family Undertaking" explores the growing home funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary..." (includes Pashta's teacher as a speaker)  Review by one of the filmmakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zE0DK7f7Os

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This film yet again, touched me very deeply.  

The beauty of the relationships of the journeyers, families and companions really shone through.  The love and connection to the process really allows people to have a sense of agency during this phase of life transition.

The journeyers seem so much closer to their relationship with the transition and with their very souls.  read more

October 2024 Shelley Garside — By My Heart and Hand graduate
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Three Possible Elements of Our Being in Deathing
Body, spirit and personality Since I was 7 years old, the idea of deathing has subtly shaped my life, although it wasn’t until the 2000s that I fully understood how it had influenced my life’s destiny.   When I was in my early twenties, I visited Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s centre in California, Shanti Nilaya (meaning ‘home of peace’), to talk to them about an idea I had; although, looking back, I can’t recall how this idea originated.   The Shanti Nilaya folks had no response — I guess the idea was too weird, BUT................ read more
November 7, 2024 Pashta MaryMoon By My Own Heart and Hand Teacher
 
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On Disorganized and Delayed Grief
Japanse womyn grieving The impact of my father's death on me is that I had not really felt grief...as I completely accept his decline, frailing ~if this is a word~ and death.  I had never felt close to him, and most of the time he chose to find something I did 'wrong' and complained about me.  I can count on one hand the times he said something positive or acknowledged anything "good" that I had done during my childhood till adult and into my late 50's.  He did say thanks when I did things for him ~ I habitually gave him short back, shoulders, arms legs or feet massages especially as he was rapidly declining.   read more
October 20, 2024 Alisa K. — By My Heart and Hand graduate

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