Full Circle of Living and Dying
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    • Akhila Murphy, Co-Founder, Death Care Midwife
    • Nandi Szabo, Co-Founder & V.P.
    • Martha Turner, Midwifery
    • CMA Medieros, Member-at-Large
    • Amanda Kenney, Death-Care Midwife
    • Nancy Parraz, Death Care Midwife
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    • Our Education >
      • Our Final Passages Death Midwifery Training
      • Home Funeral Article by Jerrigrace Lyons
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  • Home Funeral Guidance
    • Home Funeral Legal in CA >
      • Home Funeral Paperwork
    • Death Care >
      • Sacred Death Care
    • What is "Lying in Honor?"
    • California End of Life Option Act + video Info >
      • VSED: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking
    • Death Certificate Worksheet >
      • Nevada County-File Your Own Paperwork for Death Certificate - Vital Records Office
    • Pet Funeral
    • Video: A Conversation about After Death Care
  • End-of-Life Care
    • End-of-Life Doula
    • Remembrances
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    • Testimonials
    • California's End-of-Life Option Act
  • Green Burial
    • History of Natural Green Burial, Cherokee Cemetery, Nevada County >
      • Green Burial Santa Monica 2016
    • Green Burial Video from GBC
    • Find A Grave (website)
    • Aquamation: Water Cremation
    • Cremation- Not so Environmentally Friendly!
  • Events/News
    • SEPT 2019 EVENT: Advance Directives + Dementia Directive
    • Published Articles >
      • Article August 2019 Giving Back
      • 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
    • June 9, 2019 Short Film & Death Conversation
    • Prior Events for 2019
    • End-of-Life Doula Training with Inspired Endings - Oct 2019
    • PAST EVENTS: >
      • 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
      • EARLY YEARS 2013-2015 EVENTS
  • Resources
    • Grief Support: Jemma Skye Champeau
    • Grief and Loss Group in Nevada County
    • Advance Directives California + Dementia
    • Sierra Foothills Village: Aging in Place
    • RESOURCES & LINKS
    • California's End-of-Life Option Act >
      • VSED: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking >
        • Supporting a Loved One at End of Life
    • Body / Organ Donation
    • BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
    • Casket Designs
    • Threshold Choir
    • People in the Death Trade & Training
    • Holding Space
  • Medical Aid in Dying Film clip
  • Specialized Help in Dying Times
  • Order Books: Essential Reading
  • BLOG: Reflections of a Death Doula
  • Donate Here
  • Death Related YouTube
  • Go Wish Cards Online
  • April 2019 Guest Speaker Terri Nash
  • Death Certificate Worksheet
  • Beauty of EOL Study
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Doula offers comfort during vigil. 
________________________
Take me back oh hills I love,
Lift me from this lonely bed,
Light my way with stars above,
Curl soft winds about my head,
Wash my feet in crystal streams,
Cradle my arms in boughs of oak,
Breathe the scent of pine for dreams,
Wrap me tight in earthen cloak.
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~Appalachian Round

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IN-HOME END-OF-LIFE DOULA SERVICES
Doulas come into the home and bring with them knowledge and experience in guiding the dying person and family through the dying process. The time at end-of-life is as unique as any one individual life is unique.  Doulas offer guidance in ways that are suitable to individual belief systems, culture and family dynamics.
Doula Guidance may include:
  • Conversations on how the last days are to unfold when their loved one dies at home.
  • A compassionate presence, and vigil presence.
  • Energy work, emotional spirit guidance
  • Respite for caregivers.
  • Guided visualization or meditation for pain and anxiety control.
  • Assist families/community of friends in creating legacy projects. 
  • Create rituals that honor and recognize the uniqueness of their loved one.
  • Develop a plan for community vigil.
  • Assist the family/community to reprocess the dying experience after the death. 
  • ​Discuss legal options in Post-Death care & Home Funeral
 Optional Special Cleaning/Clearing services: 
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. 

​​For free phone consultation
​Call Akhila ​(530)432-6929



Who We Are

A Collective of women and men who deeply know the sacredness of the end-of-life. We know that in general our communities have been deeply affected by past death experiences and want to learn a better way of doing death. We know that conversations about death are not easy. Perhaps these talks never happen at all, leaving most people uneducated on the options available in dying and after death care.  We know the confusion, fear, and exhaustion that comes with caring for a dying loved one. Our hearts are filled with the desire to be of service. We provide guidance and empower everyone to be involved in the preciousness of the dying process. Even if that involvement is just a little bit at first, we know it will grow. We know it will heal. 

Our Training

Our End-of-Life Doulas and Midwives have received training from Final Passage Conscious Dying, Hospice of the Foothills volunteer training programs, DeathWalker training with Zenith Virago, attended 2016 International Death Doula Training with Doorway Into Light, specialized doula instruction in 2019 with  Inspired Endings End-of-Life Doula training, and with INELDA, International End-of-LIfe Doula Association. 

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