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FCLD Core Circle Team
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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
- Sushila Mertens, End-of-Life Doula
- Merdeka Van Wissekerke, Death Care
- Rebecca Sengolu
- Advocates for end-of-life choices and death-care rights
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Green Burial
- June 18, 2021 Register Field trip to Cherokee Cemetery
- History of Natural Green Burial, Cherokee Cemetery, Nevada County >
- Natural Organic Reduction -Composting Human Remains >
- Natural Organic Reduction Amigo Bob's story
- Find A Grave (website)
- Aquamation: Water Cremation >
- Cremation- Not so Environmentally Friendly!
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Events/News
- 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 >
- PAST EVENTS 2021 >
- Newsletters
- KVMR Podcasts: Featuring End-of-LIfe Doulas
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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- 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
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PAST EVENTS 2019/20
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- 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 >
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2017 PAST Events: August 27th -Understanding California's End-of-LIfe Option Act
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- 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 >
- EARLY YEARS 2013-2015 EVENTS
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Resources
- MAiD/California End of Life Option Act + Update SB 380 >
- Bereavement Support in Nevada County >
- Advance Directives California + Dementia
- Hospice of the Foothills, Nevada County
- Senior Outreach Services, Nevada County
- One Source Empowering Caregivers
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss >
- Support group: Pregnancy and Infant Loss
- End-of-Life Plan of Care
- American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying >
- Physicians & Local Pharmacy >
- VSED: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking >
- Body / Organ Donation
- Threshold Choir
- Resources and Links
- People in the Death Trade & Training
- Holding Space
- FAQ
- Companions for Pregnancy Loss
- Blog
- Suggested Reading
- Death Related YouTube
- Go Wish Cards Online
- Beauty of EOL Study
- JOIN OUR TEAM
- Bardo, Buddhism and the Art of Dying
- Accomplishments
- Union Article Caring Cradle Sept 2019
- volunteer profiles
- Spotlight Sushila Mertens
- Kids Sit Vigil with their Granny
- Sharon's End-of-life days
- Mary Jo Curtain, Board Member
- New Page
- Nearing Death Awareness
