Full Circle Living & Dying Collective
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    • What is a Death Doula or Death Midwife?
    • Akhila Murphy, Co-Founder, Death Care Midwife >
      • Akhila Murphy, Death Care Midwife
    • Our Community Educator Nandi Szabo, Expressive Art Therapist
    • Amanda Kenney, Death-Care Midwife
    • Tara Coyote, Grief Rituals + How I made peace with Death
    • Nancy Parraz, Death Care Midwife
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    • Our Final Passages Death Midwifery Training >
      • Our Guide: Jerrigrace Lyons of Final Passages >
        • Home Funeral Article by Jerrigrace Lyons
  • Home Funeral Guide
    • Home Funeral Legal in CA
    • Death Care
    • What is "Lying in Honor?"
    • End-of-Life Caregiving Services
    • Video: After Death Care
    • Sacred Death Care
    • California End of Life Option Act >
      • VSED: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking
    • Home Funeral Paperwork
    • Nevada County-File Your Own Paperwork for Death Certificate - Vital Records Office
  • End-of-Life Caregiving Svc
    • End-of-Life Doula
    • Remembrances
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    • Testimonials
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  • Green Burial
    • History of Natural Green Burial, Cherokee Cemetery, Nevada County >
      • Green Burial Santa Monica 2016
    • Green Burial Video from GBC
    • Body / Organ Donation
    • Aquamation: Water Cremation
    • Cremation- Not so Environmentally Friendly!
  • Events/News
    • Event May 20, 2018- Creating a Death Care Plan: Exploring Unconventional Options
    • Upcoming Events: 2018
    • Susan Sanford: Event - The Great Big Gift- 12/3/17
    • Recent Event: August 27th -Understanding California's End-of-LIfe Option Act
    • Deathwalker Training with Zenith Virago Sept 2017
    • Published Articles >
      • Choosing When to Die
      • Home Funeral Visitation
    • Recent Past Event: Film screening: Zen & the Art of Dying August 13, 2017
    • PAST EVENTS: >
      • Recent 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
      • Planning Your Own Send-off May 1, 2016
      • Stephen Jenkinson Comes to NC March 14, 2016
      • Education, Presentations, Death Cafe
      • International Death Doula Training 2017
      • Event: Sunday Aug 28 2-4pm Home Funerals & Green Burial
  • Resources
    • Aging in Place
    • Partners/Resources/Links
    • Compassion & Choices, CA
    • Body / Organ Donation
    • Your End-of-Life Priorities/Advance Directive link
    • VSED: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking >
      • Supporting a Loved One at End of Life
    • Casket Designs
    • Threshold Choir
    • People in the Death Trade & Training
    • Sacred Death Care
    • Holding Space
  • Medical Aid in Dying
  • Specialized Help in Dying Times
  • Dementia Patient Rights
  • Our Education
  • BLOG: Reflections of a Death Doula
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Doula offers comfort during vigil. 


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

IN-HOME END-OF-LIFE DOULA SERVICES
Doulas come into the home and bring with them knowledge and experience in guiding the patient 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. 
  • ​May assist Death Care Midwife in 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. 


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

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