Definitions,
Values,
DJ's Rights, 7 Stages,
Alternative Providers,
CINDEA Recognition,
Why use Services?
Expectations,
Web of Facets,
Advantages of a DM,
CINDEA Recognition,
Philosophy in Practice
Final
Affairs,
Advance Directives & Representation/Proxy,
Dementia
History,
Why Consider It,
Basics, Videos,
Physical
Care,
6 Shroud Patterns,
DJ's Remains
By My Own Heart & Hand
Home Funerals, Greening Death, Children & Deathing Rites
Various forms
of
ecological disposition
National
& Provincial
National
& Provincial
U.S.A., U.K.,
etc.
for Adults & Children
and Donations
Articles & Updates
Definitions,
Values,
DJ's Rights, 7 Stages,
Alternative Providers,
CINDEA Recognition,
Why use Services?
Expectations,
Web of Facets,
Advantages of a DM,
CINDEA Recognition,
Philosophy in Practice
Final
Affairs,
Advance Directives & Representation/Proxy,
Dementia
History,
Why Consider It,
Basics, Videos,
Physical
Care,
6 Shroud Patterns,
DJ's Remains
Various forms
of
ecological disposition
By My Own Heart & Hand
home funerals, Greening Death, Children, and Deathing Rites
National
& Provincial
National
& Provincial
U.S.A., U.K.,
etc.
for
Adults & Children
and Donations
Articles & Updates
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These
resources are from the United States, Britain
and elsewhere. They are included
so that our readers may explore the pan-death
movement, and alternatives to conventional practice,
beyond Canada.
Table
of Contents for Resources
Elsewhere
(click
on any of the headings or sub-headings
below to jump to that section)
(For
Canadian pre-death resources, click
here: for Canadian post-death resources,
click
here) |
Practitioners
of Death Midwifery, Death Doulas, Home Funeral
Guides, and related services
Each site offers resource information on natural
death processes, funeral/memorial services, green
burials, etc. Some services
only include post-death care/support, so you will
need to check out individual providers.
General
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General
Pan-Death Care
Resources
on Natural Deathing processes
(including 'right to die' resources)
WORLD-WIDE
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The
International Work Group on Death, Dying,
and Bereavement
The IWG, a non-profit organization, supports
leaders in the field of deathing and
bereavement in their efforts to stimulate
and enhance innovative ideas, research,
and practice. Vision statement:
A world where deathing and bereavement
are an open part of all cultures |
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World
Federation of Right-to-Die Societies
founded in 1980, consists
of 38 right-to-die organisations from 23 countries
(including
Canada and elsewhere) |
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Death
Cafe
gatherings
for conversation on a variety of 'deathing' topics (see
map
for how the Death Cafes are spreading across
the world, including Canada) |
Australia
South
Africa
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Final
Fling
South Africa
excellent website
on all aspects of deathing (including
pre- and post-death elements), and
finding support for a personalized death
journey and friends experience |
Scotland
U.K.
Canada
U.S.A.
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National
Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)
articles,
discussion, etc. for those interested in developing
death midwifery and home funeral options. |
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Funeral
Consumer Alliance
Josh
Slocum, executive director, info@funerals.org
providing education and advocacy to consumers
nationwide and not affiliated with the funeral
industry (Josh is co-author
of the book "Final Rights: Reclaiming
the American Way of Death"). |
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Dying
into Love website of free and paid
videos focused on 'conscious dying', or 'personal
healing while dying' (vidoes
by Ram Dass, Joan Halifax, Dale Borglum, Bodhi
Be, and others
as well as articles, mediations, etc.) |
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End
of Life University website of interviews
with practitioners across the pan-death (and
seniors' issues) spectrum, including
several Canadians |
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Pre-/during
death
Music
Thanatology
a
particular kind of music (sung
or instrumental) to aid in the
process of a peaceful death
General
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Bedside
Singing
a variant of music thanatology, that only uses
voice and usually done by hospice/etc. volunteers
(although may be used with birthing
mothers as well as dying people).
U.K.
New
Zealand
U.S.A.
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Hospice
and Palliative Care Services
World-wide
Directories and Organizations
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International
Children's Palliative Care Network
working towards the rights of children and
young people with life-limiting or life-threatening
conditions and their families to receive
the best quality of life and care regardless
of which country they live in |
U.K.
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Hospice
UK
including information on hospices in the
UK (see Hospice care finder)
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Conversation
Starter Kit
Pediatric
Starter Kit: Having the Conversation with
Your Seriously Ill Child (PDF) |
U.S.A.
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Death
Doulas/Thanadoulas/similar roles and training
[Note:
both may offer full pan-death services, but many
focus on the pre-death stage.]
Australia
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Natural
Death Care Centre
an incorporated association and a registered
charity located in the Byron Shire, Northern
NSW, Australia offering
pan-death 'death walker' training
(equal to a practitioner of death midwifery)
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Jumave
Facebook page North-West
Coast of Tasmania full range of pan-death
services (equal to a pan-death
guide) Phone: 0407
427 575 Email
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Care
Beyond Cure Inc. Compassionate
Communities Cradle Coast wide range
of initiatives and resources |
Netherlands
Scotland
U.K.
U.S.A.
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Post-Death
Home
Funeral Guides (providing
post-death support and guidance, although possibly
pan-death care)
Training
for Home Funeral Guides and related care
(Note: there is
no standardization of training)
Australia
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Natural
Death Care Centre
an incorporated association and a registered
charity located in the Byron Shire, Northern
NSW, Australia offering
pan-death 'death walker' training
(equal to a practitioner of death midwifery)
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U.K.
U.S.A.
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Final
Passages Sebastopol, CA
training in home funeral guiding internationally,
handbook available |
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A
Sacred Passage Bellingham, WA
training in home funerals, presentations,
etc. in Washington and Oregon |
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Center
for End of Life Transitions
Asheville,
NC
training in 'end of life' initiatives and
home funerals |
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A
Sacred Moment Seattle, WA
half-day, full-day, or weekend event trainings
can be arranged |
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The
Dying Year
Ann Arbor, MI home
funeral guide training |
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Redesigning
the end
home
funeral guide training and
free
initial course |
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Crossings:
Caring for Our Own at Death
Takoma Park, MD
one-day
workshops in various places in the country |
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Center
for End of Life Transitions
Asheville,
NC Home
Funeral & Death Care Midwife Training |
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In
the Circle of Life various kinds
of death related trainings, including death
doula, home funerals and green burials |
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Dying
Consciously Program
teacher
training, and directory
of teachers in the U.S., as well as Australia,
Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway,
Switzerland, and the U.K. |
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Information
on Post-Death Care
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Funeral
Celebrants
Australia
U.K.
U.S.A.
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Finding
A Celebrant
hosted
by In-sight Books, Inc gives names,
contact info and short bios for funeral
celebrants in 5 countries (and
by province or state).
Many are funeral directors, but may have
additional training in personalization of
funeral/memorial services. |
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The
Celebrant Directory
locator
for funeral celebrants in various countries
and provinces/states/regions |
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Celebrant
Foundation and Institute
locator
for funeral (and other) celebrants
in Canada and U.S.A. Check
also their celebrants
site for funeral celebrants. |
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Green
Burial
GENERAL
INFORMATION
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Green/Natural
Burial Cemeteries
Australia
Ireland
U.K.
U.S.A.
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Green
Burial Council
developing
eco-friendly end-of-life rituals, protecting
the legitimate benefits of environmentally
sustainable deathcare, and using burial
as a means of acquiring, restoring, and
stewarding natural areas registery of approved
funeral providers, cemeteries, and cremation
disposition programs for the U.S. and Canada |
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Cemetery
Group information about green
burials and listings for locations in the
U.S.A., and including multiple home videos
of home funerals |
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Forest
of Memories 'Nature preserves providing
cemetery functions, not cemeteries working
hard to be greener', and Memorial Ecosystems
113 Retreat Street, Westminster, SC 29693,
USA Tel: (864) 647 7798
Fax: 864 647 7796. |
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North
American Woodland Burial Society
society
directed at furthering woodland burials in
the US.and elsewhere |
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P.O.V.
re "A Family Understaking"
film on home funerals, and various other natural
burial issues discussion
guide/etc. on film under 'Take Action' (left
side menu) |
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Other
Green Options for Remains
[Note: The first facilities for
promession-based funerals, known as Promatoria,
are due to be ready in 2011. They will be located
in Sweden, Great Britain & South Korea. We
know of no promession facilities planned for the
U.S.A. at this time. See U.S.A. section
below for first resomation options in U.S.A. and
the only outdoor cremation pyre.]
GENERAL
U.K.
U.S.A.
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Green
cremation
via alkaline hydrolysis
(resomation) |
US
Funerals on Aquamation
and YouTube
video on Aquamation |
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Aquamation
U.S.A. distributor for resomation
machinery |
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Crestone
End of Life Project
includes
the only U.S.A. Outdoor
Cremation Pyre, as well as offering support
for family-based post-death care |
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Golden
Gate Burial Services California
full-body burial at sea |
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New
England Burials At Sea east coast
U.S.A. full-body burial at sea (including
FAQs about full-body burial in the U.S.A.) |
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The
Urban Death Project/Recomposition
Seattle,
WA)
a new, developing project to collectively
compost final remains
which is possible to do within an urban environment
(where it is not possible to
create new burial grounds), and return
the composted remains to family and community
gardens, parks, etc. Formallly called 'natural
organic reduction'. How
it works Human composting is legal in
Washington, Colorado, and Oregon. |
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Return
Home
Auburn,
WA Terramation,
also called Natural Organic Reduction, available
to Canadians as well |
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Earth
Funeral Auburn WA and Portland
OR soil reduction (same as Resomation
and Terramation) and full funeral services |
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Bio-degradable
coffins and shrouds
Italy
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Capsula Mundi information on
egg-shaped containers, made from corn and
potato starch in which the body is
put in a fetal position, put in a green
burial grave and tree planted overtop; also
working on legislation to be able to use
them in Italy |
New
Zealand
|
Natural
Funeral Company
Eco-Weave
casket (from bamboo)
and other products
71
Colin Shaw Lane, Ponsonby 1011, Auckland |
U.K.
U.S.A.
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