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      • Event May 20, 2018- Creating a Death Care Plan: Exploring Unconventional Options
      • Event: July 22, 2018 Death Cafe
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      • Past Event: Film screening: Zen & the Art of Dying August 13, 2017
      • PAST Event: Film screening: Zen and the Art of Dying June 11, 2017
      • Past Event: Death Salon, A Gathering of Community to Discuss Death -MAR 26
      • Past Event - Exploring After Death Options: What Happens to our Bodily Remains? Feb 19, 2017 2-4pm
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FULL CIRCLE of LIVING and DYING:
Bringing back the beautiful tradition of home death care
in your private home setting. This is totally legal in California. 

Home death care is unique for each person or family. It involves care at a level that feels right for each individual group - family, friends, caregivers and others in the community. The dying process may occur in a care facility, hospital or home. Over 75% of people surveyed say they want to spend their dying days at home. Only 25% of those people actually do die at home surrounded by loved ones. 
Taking back the old tradition of home death care may mean you are the caregiver for your dear one in your home. With a terminal diagnosis, hospice may help with comfort care and is covered by Medicare. Private caregivers may be brought in to help when care becomes overwhelming.  Advance-planning for dying wishes should be documented and shared with loved ones. This allows everyone involved in end-of-life and after death care to know the wishes of the dying person. For the dying individual, this may be a time for grief guidance, creating a legacy project, writing your own obituary, and planning your own memorial service.​
  •  Creating your own after death plans (funeral) avoids confusion during a time of grief and allows family & friends to follow your specific wishes when death arrives. 

The work of Full Circle of Living and Dying includes education and guidance. We train you in the care 
of a dying loved one.  We empower you in how to perform after death care so your loved one may lie in honor (home wake/vigil) for one to three days. We offer education in seeking options for burial or cremation with transportation and paperwork. We offer guidance in creating sacred space in the room for the dying person, offer options in ceremonial washing, anointing, dressing and readying of the deceased body to lie in honor in the home. We offer ideas in use of ice packs, cardboard casket design, and organizing vigil.This open discussion may inspire you to create a legacy project and personalized memorial service. ​

Importance of Home death care:  Allows time for family and friends to gather and process grief in a loving setting, honoring the death process in your own comfortable environment. You may create a unique personalized funeral/ceremony using your creativity, religious traditions, and spiritual rituals or honor a loved one's special requests.
 

PRE-PLANNING IS THE BEST WAY TO MAKE YOUR WISHES KNOWN. CALL FOR FREE PHONE CONSULTATION - AKHILA (916)397-5443
We also offer in-home End-of-Life care consultations. Let's have step by step discussion with your family or agent about what you want for your own after death care, or care of a loved one. (530)270-9839 

Family Directed End-of-Life Care Includes:
  • Support of families in obtaining all legal and other necessary paperwork (death certificate, permit for disposition and cremation authorization. Also, Advance Directives) 
  •  Education in body care (bathing, use of essential oils and dressing) for lying in honor.
  •  Assist holding vigil for dying loved one. 
  • ​Act as a liaison with local mortuaries in seeking transportation from a home to crematorium or cemetery. 
  • Support in dying ritual, memorials, and ceremony
  • Help in altar creation.
  • Eco-Friendly, low cost casket

Optional Additional Services Available Upon Request:
  • End-of-Life Caregivers -  Our Team of Trained nursing aides 
  • Personalized guided Casket decorating, and ceremony creation for families and dying loved one to create a unique memorial. Art supplies included.
  • Reiki universal life force assistance during dying and/or after death
  • Unique glass blown art of loved one’s cremains
  • Grief Ritual Guidance and Classes
  • Ministerial services: Grief counseling, readings at ceremony​
  • ​Ayurvedic  or Western Herbal Education
  • ​We also provide cleaning/clearing services. Our team can come into the home for deep physical cleaning, sorting and reorganizing the home prior to lying in honor. We may smudge, and hold  sacred ceremony to clear the air and assist in transition.  Call upon us to assist in clearing the home after death.
California Law states you may direct your family member’s funeral.                             
(Our work is funded by your generous donation to further educate & serve our community).


Full Circle of Living & Dying is an educational consulting group and is in no way considered a funeral establishment. All  contributions received by Full Circle of Living & Dying are for requested consulting services and  private or public education.
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