burial options – End of Life University

Learn about the beauty of full-body burial at sea and why it is becoming a more popular alternative.

My guest Olivia Bareham is a certified Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide, Interfaith Minister and Funeral Celebrant. She is the founder of the Sacred Crossings Institute, which provides education for death midwifery and home funeral support and of the Sacred Crossings Funeral Home. Today she discusses full-body sea burials and other unique alternatives she offers at her funeral home. Learn more at the website:

www.sacredcrossings.com

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This episode includes:

How Olivia first became interested in home funerals
How Olivia is “paying forward” the mentoring she received as she was learning about home funerals
Death as a teacher and a gift
What inspired Olivia to start an alternative funeral home
What is full-body sea burial
How families and loved ones can participate in a sea burial
How to plan a full-body sea burial
Who might consider a sea burial for themselves or for a loved one
How Olivia facilitates rituals for families of ICU patients who are being taken off life support
How stillbirth services help parents with their overwhelming grief

Links mentioned in this episode:

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Learn about an exciting environmentally friendly option for disposition after death.

My guests today are Micah Truman, the CEO and Founder of Return Home.com, and Brie Smith who is the Services Director for the company. Return Home is designed to ensure a sustainable future for the planet by using terramation, an environmentally friendly option for disposition after death. They discuss the process of terramation (a form of human composting) and how it is available right now to people from all 50 states at Return Home. You can learn more at their website:

www.returnhome.com

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This episode includes:

How the inspiration for Return Home came about
What is terramation and how it works
The benefits of terramation over fire cremation or natural burial
How Return Home is able to service clients from other states (outside of Washington state)
What is possible for funerals and memorial services at Return Home
The end product of terramation and what can be done with it
What EOL educators should teach their clients about terramation and where to find resources
How one can make plans in advance to utilize the services of Return Home

Links mentioned in this episode:

A Year of Reading Dangerously – Register here
Learn more and register for The Second Annual Symposium on Death and Bereavement Studies – Sunday January 30th
Return Home Introductory movie
Find Return Home on Facebook and Instagram
Leave me a message by email: karen@karenwyattmd.com, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram

Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying and The Journey from Ego to Soul
Subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher Radio
Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past here
Join the team at Patreon.com/eolu and get access to the EOLU mug: “Mind if we talk about death?” (only Patrons can purchase it). PLUS get our new bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!

If you enjoy this content please share it with others and consider leaving a review on iTunes. Thanks again to all supporters on my page at Patreon.com/eolu, especially my new patron fotoguyz! Your contributions make all the difference.