AFTER-DEATH CARE AND HOME FUNERALS
Facilitated by: Olivia Bareham
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2024 | 10:00 am – 5:30 pm ET
Price: $250.00
This workshop demonstrates the role of the death midwife from the final breath through the 3-day home vigil and funeral until final disposition. Open to professional and non-professional end-of-life caregivers and anyone wishing to care for their loved one naturally, at home, according to personal, religious, and cultural traditions.
THE TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:
Legalities & logistics of a 1 to 3-day home vigil
The death Midwife kit
Care of the body (bathing, dressing, anointing)
Laying the body in-honor
Dry-ice preservation
Stillbirth/Infant death – bringing baby home
Films, meditations, written exercises, and demonstrations support the information being shared.
Facilitator
REV. OLIVIA BAREHAM is a certified Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide and Celebrant. She holds degrees in Education and Natural Theology and Sacred Healing, and is the founder of the Sacred Crossings Institute and Sacred Crossings Alternative Funeral Home in Los Angeles. Olivia has over 18 years’ experience as a death midwife guiding hundreds of families in the art of conscious dying and home-based after-death care. Olivia facilitates certificate training programs for Death Doulas and Death Midwives and manages her funeral home to support families seeking green and conscious alternatives to conventional funeral industry practices. Services include home funerals, green burials, and full-body deep sea burials. Please visit sacredcrossings.com for more information.