Tag: community deathcare

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Ep. 549 The “Dying Team”: Community-Supported Deathcare with Anna Byrne

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Learn about a compassionate, community-based approach to caring for someone at the end of life, including the use of medical assistance in dying.

Portrait of a woman with long hair smiling, holding a book titled 'The Last Caravan' next to text about the 'Dying Team' focusing on community-supported healthcare.

My special guest Anna Byrne is and end-of-life educator, speaker, and author who holds degrees in Gerontology, Psychology, Education, and Theology with a thesis on Medical Assistance in Dying. She is the author of the memoir Seven Year Summer and The Last Caravan: The Power of Community at the End of Life, which we discuss today. She shares her experience supporting a friend through the last months of her life, including using MAID and also planning her funeral and burial. She has also co-founded Community-Supported Dying in the qathet region in British Columbia. Learn more at her website:

annambyrne.com

Get the book here

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This episode includes:

  • How Anna first became acquainted with Mary Morgan and eventually ended up supporting her in her dying process
  • How Mary approached her dying as an activist just as she had lived her life
  • The “dying team” Mary created to help her at the end of her life
  • How COVID complicated the plan for Mary’s last days
  • The Ring Theory for creating a support network
  • How her team used Lotsa Helping Hands to organize tasks and helpers
  • The Blessing Way ritual and how the team applied it to Mary’s care
  • The “messiness” of community, especially around the end of life
  • Anticipatory grief as the date of death approached
  • How they helped Mary plan and carry out her funeral and burial

Links mentioned in this episode:

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Ep. 448 Human-Centered Design for End-of-Life and After-Death Care with Isabel Knight

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Learn how the concept of human-centered design can improve how we care for people at end of life and also how we operate our businesses.

My guest Isabel Knight is a human-centered designer and end-of-life guide who founded The Death Designer to provide design services for deathcare businesses and non-profits. She is also the president of the National Home Funeral Alliance, which teaches people about community deathcare and how to conduct a funeral from home. She discusses her work as an end-of-life guide, home funerals, and the concept of human-centered design. Learn more at these websites:

thedeathdesigner.com

homefuneralalliance.org

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This episode includes:

  • What the National Home Funeral Alliance provides
  • Why home funerals are important
  • How funeral homes can help support community deathcare
  • What is human-centered design and why it’s important
  • The power of simple small changes to make a difference
  • Designing products and systems for the needs of the most vulnerable people benefits everyone
  • Challenges facing end-of-life care from the perspective of a young person
  • The need for a business model for death doulas
  • Potential changes coming to the “Funeral Rule” to increase transparency around funeral home prices

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Ep. 268 Death Nesting: Bringing Together Ancient and Modern Death Care with Anne-Marie Keppel

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Learn how to utilize ancient techniques in caring for the dying in this modern world.

My guest Anne-Marie Keppel is a death doula and home funeral guide who will share with us some of the ancient techniques of death care that she utilizes in her work as a community death care provider. She is the author of the books Death Nesting: Ancient & Modern Death Doula Techniques, Mindfulness Practices and Herbal Care and The Death of Faefolk, a book for teens. Learn more at her website:

www.stardustmeadow.com

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This episode includes:

  • How Anne-Marie became interested in being a death doula
  • The two doula paths: ancient and modern and why we need both
  • How to create a “death nest” for a dying loved one
  • The use of herbs in doula practice
  • Creative tips for helping children deal with death
  • Suggestions for “moving with grief”
  • Why death doula training for teenagers is a good idea
  • How to use the book Death Nesting as a resource

Links mentioned in this episode:

  • View the cover of my next book (The Journey from Ego to Soul) here
  • Get Anne-Marie’s book Death Nesting here (Commission link*)
  • Read Yes! Magazine article on death doulas by Dr. Cynthia Greenlee here
  • Books by Victoria Sweet: God’s Hotel and Slow Medicine (Commission links*)
  • Community Deathcare Training with LaShanna Williams: www.asacredpassing.org
  • Find Death Doula Training for Teens here
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  • Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past here
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