Full Circle of Living and Dying
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      • Akhila Murphy, Founding Director, End-of-Life Doula, Death Care Midwife
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      • Mary Good, End-of-Life Doula, Secretary of the Board
      • Amanda Kenney, Death-Care Midwife, Board Director
      • Mary Jo Curtin, Board Director
    • Sushila Mertens, End-of-Life Doula, Outstanding Volunteer of the Year!
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      • Bonnie McKeegan, LCSW, Vice President Board Director
      • Martha Turner, Midwifery, President of the Board
      • Linda More, End-of-Life Doula, Past Board Director
      • Donna Peizer, Past Treasurer
      • Nandi Szabo, Co-Founder
      • CMA Medeiros, End-of-Life Doula, Past Board Director
      • Nancy Parraz, Death Care Midwife
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      • Merdeka Van Wissekerke, Death Care
      • Rebecca Sengolu
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    • June 18, 2021 Register Field trip to Cherokee Cemetery
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    • June 24, 2022 Presentation Organ and Tissue donation
    • Upcoming Event July 21, 2022 Death Conversations- Breaking the silence
    • Past Event Apr. 28, 2022 After-death Care presentation
    • PAST March 26, 2022 Cemetery Field Trip
    • Past Event March 17, 2022 Death Conversations- Breaking the silence
    • Past Event Jan 20, 2022 Death Conversations- Breaking the silence
    • Review: 2021 City of Hope, End:0f-Life Symposium December
    • Article: Pregnancy Loss Conversations Feb, 2022
    • Article: Death Doula Lawsuit Dec. 2021 >
      • California Death Doulas Fight
      • Death Doulas C&C Article Nov. 2021
    • PAST EVENTS 2021 >
      • Presentation Dec. 9th : "There's No Place Like Home." Home funeral Basics
      • Past Event: Nov. 2021- Medical Aid-in-Dying Update
      • Past Event: Natural Organic Reduction - Register
      • Past Events 2021 : June 18 -Field trip to Cherokee Cemetery
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    • PUBLISHED ARTICLES >
      • Article: California's End-of-LIfe Option Act
      • Article Amigo Bob -Natural Organic Reduction Human Composting
      • April 2020 Ventilators in times of COVID-19
      • Giving Back After Tragedy, September 2019 The Union
      • Article The Union May 2019 New nonprofit
      • Article The Union August 2019 HBO Documentary
      • Choosing When to Die
      • Home Funeral Visitation
    • PAST EVENTS 2019/20 >
      • Past Event Oct 7 & 8, 2020 Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
      • Death & Grieving around Corona Virus March 26, 2020
      • Past Event: Jan 26, 2020 Your Life, Your Choice, Your Plan
      • End-of-Life Doula Training with Inspired Endings - Oct 2019
      • June 9, 2019 Short Film & Death Conversation
      • Mar, Apr, May 2019
      • SEPT 2019 EVENT: Advance Directives + Dementia Directive
    • 2018 Past Events >
      • A Matter of Life & Death: Workshop Series Sept. 22, 2018
      • Nandi's Cancer Support Group September-October 2018
      • Past Events: 2018
      • Event May 20, 2018- Creating a Death Care Plan: Exploring Unconventional Options
      • Event: July 22, 2018 Death Cafe
    • 2017 PAST Events: August 27th -Understanding California's End-of-LIfe Option Act >
      • Deathwalker Training with Zenith Virago Sept 2017
      • 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
      • Going Out Green: Learn about Eco-friendly Home Funerals and Green Burial Cemetery JAN. 8, 2017
      • International Death Doula Training 2017
    • 2016 Events Planning Your Own Send-off May 1, 2016 >
      • Stephen Jenkinson Comes to NC March 14, 2016
      • Education, Presentations, Death Cafe
      • Event: Sunday Aug 28 2-4pm Home Funerals & Green Burial
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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 person 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; 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 
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 or (916)397-5443

Family Centered End-of-Life Care Includes:
  • Support of families/friends 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.
  • Information about Eco-Friendly, low cost casket options

Optional Additional Services Available Upon Request:​
  • 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 and Dying is an educational consulting group. We are non-medical volunteers, and do not dispense or endorse any medical advice. We provide links for consumers to educate themselves in matters of death and dying.

Full Circle of Living and Dying is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and is in no way considered a funeral establishment.

Any donations received by Full Circle of Living and Dying are for requested consulting services, private or public education, or funding for our projects and services. 
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