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Community Based Grief and Death Support

What is Death Care?

Death care refers to the array of services and practices that support individuals and families in dealing with the death of a loved one, both before and after the passing. It encompasses everything from end-of-life planning and caregiving to the rituals and practicalities involved in death and burial. Death care services aim to ensure that the dying process is dignified, that the deceased’s wishes are respected, and that the bereaved receive the necessary emotional, spiritual, and logistical support during a difficult time.

Death care can look like any of the following...

End-of-life planning: This includes making decisions about medical care (such as advanced directives), preparing a will, and discussing funeral or memorial preferences. A death doula, hospice care, or a palliative care team may assist individuals in making these decisions in a way that aligns with their values.
Care during dying: This refers to the physical, emotional, and spiritual support provided to a person who is nearing the end of life. This care can be provided by hospice or palliative care professionals, as well as by death doulas, who help guide individuals through the dying process and offer companionship and comfort to both the person and their family.
After-death care: Once death occurs, death care also includes the logistics of managing the body and ensuring that legal and religious protocols are followed. This could involve services like body preparation, embalming (if requested), or handling the paperwork for death certificates, insurance, and estate matters.
Funeral and memorial services: Death care also includes organizing and planning for funeral or memorial services, which can range from traditional religious ceremonies to more personalized, non-religious celebrations of life. Funeral directors often play a key role here, helping with the logistics, paperwork, and the specific details of burial or cremation.
Grief support: Finally, death care extends to the ongoing support for the grieving process. This can include counseling, support groups, and other services that help individuals and families process their emotions and navigate the challenges of life after a loss.

Living ouroboros death doula

As a death doula I am passionate about supporting dying people and their families through such a complex and intimate time. My main focus for doulaship is supporting families who have lost pregnancies, babies, and children. Although, if you do not fit into this category, I am well-resourced to get you in touch with a death doula who does meet your needs. For death care clients I provide grief support, education and resources on types of viewings and burials—as well as information on the rights of the family to bring there beloved home before burial, ceremony crafting, and on-going community. Death care is $555 sliding scale. Cost of care is reflective of what services a client is interested in. Packages are customized based on necessity and I am available for even just emotional support. Please shoot me an email to set up a call and discuss further.

General Grief Support

Although death care from me is reserved for a particular demographic, I do provide general grief support to everyone in need. Grief creeps in and takes shape in many different ways. If you have recently experienced birth, infant loss, an abortion and/or the death of a family member, loved one, pet, or are experiencing complex life changes overall grief support can help you move through difficult and uncomfortable feelings. Having someone bear witness to grief at the end of things is helpful for processing the emotions we are facing and step into a new season of our lives. No one ought to experience grief in isolation. Please reach out and be well.

Grief Support includes:

🌙text/call support —$33
🌙in-person or virtual grief journaling and crafting sessions—$44
🌙access to free online Discord community

RIP CITY Death CAFE

A Death Café is a time and place where people come to share food, drink tea or coffee, and discuss death openly and honestly. The aim is to increase awareness about death in order to help people make the most of their (finite) lives. There is never an intention of leading participants to any conclusion, product or course of action. A Death Café is not a bereavement support or grief counseling setting, nor is it a place to give people information about death and dying. It is not for people who, for whatever reason, are unwilling to discuss the subject of death comfortably and openly. There are no planned topics, and discussions are ran by those in attendance. Interesting conversations are guaranteed! I

Come have brunch and talk about death.

For more information shoot an email to ripcitydeathcafe@gmail.com

For flyers and updates on meetings follow: @ripcitydeathcafe on instagram

Visit deathcafe.com for more information.