Full Circle of Living and Dying
  • Home
    • Donate Here
  • About Us/contact
    • Symbolism of our LOGO
    • JOIN OUR TEAM
    • Board of Directors >
      • Akhila Murphy, Co-Founder, End-of-Life Doula, Death Care Midwife
      • Martha Turner, Midwifery, President
      • Rosie Mariani, Treasurer
      • Mary Good, End-of-Life Doula, Secretary
      • Amanda Kenney, Death-Care Midwife, Board Member
      • Linda More, End-of-Life Doula, Board Member since 2020
    • Core Circle Team >
      • Donna Peizer, Past Treasurer
      • Nandi Szabo, Co-Founder
      • CMA Medeiros, End-of-Life Doula
      • Nancy Parraz, Death Care Midwife
      • Sushila Mertens, End-of-Life Doula
    • Advocates for end-of-life choices and death-care rights
    • FAQ
    • Donate Here
    • What is an End-of-Life Doula or Death Midwife?
    • Sign up for Newsletter/send email
    • Our Education >
      • Our Final Passages Death Midwifery Training
      • Home Funeral Article by Jerrigrace Lyons
    • Gallery
    • Contact Us
  • Home Funeral Guidance
    • Know your rights. Home death care is legal.
    • Home Death Care in California >
      • Home Funeral Paperwork
    • Pregnancy and Infant Loss >
      • Cuddle Cot 2021
    • CALIFORNIA DEATH CERTIFICATE Instructions
    • Death Care >
      • Sacred Death Care
    • What is "Lying in Honor?"
    • Pet Funeral >
      • Pet Euthanasia in the Home
    • Death Certificate Worksheet >
      • Nevada County-File Your Own Paperwork for Death Certificate - Vital Records Office
    • Video: A Conversation about After Death Care
  • End-of-Life Plan of Care
    • Advance Directives, Dementia, Covid-19
    • End-of-Life Doula
    • MAiD/California End of Life Option Act + Update Sunset Provision
    • Sacred Bridges, Local End-of-Life Caregivers
    • Remembrances
    • Contributions
    • Testimonials
    • Physician Support: Medical Aid in Dying
    • VSED: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking
  • Green Burial
    • History of Natural Green Burial, Cherokee Cemetery, Nevada County >
      • Green Burial Santa Monica 2016
      • Green Burial Video from GBC
    • 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!
  • Events/News
    • EVENTS April 2021: Death Conversations- Breaking the silence
    • Newsletters
    • Article Amigo Bob -Natural Organic Reduction Human Composting
    • KVMR Podcast: End-of-LIfe Doulas
    • PUBLISHED ARTICLES >
      • 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
    • EARLY YEARS 2013-2015 EVENTS
  • Resources
    • One Source Empowering Caregivers
    • Companions for Pregnancy and Infant Loss >
      • Cuddle Cot 2021
      • Union Article Caring Cradle 2019
    • Medical Aid in Dying Film Clip + Details on Sunset Provision >
      • Links for California's End-of-Life Option Act
    • End-of-Life Plan of Care
    • Physicians & Local Pharmacy >
      • Dr. Stephen Banister, Nevada County
      • American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying
    • VSED: Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking >
      • Supporting a Loved One at End of Life
    • Grief Support in Nevada County >
      • Grief Support: Death of spouse (video clip)
      • Grief Support: Jemma Skye Champeau
    • Advance Directives California + Dementia
    • Body / Organ Donation
    • Sierra Foothills Village: Aging in Place
    • Threshold Choir
    • Resources and Links
    • People in the Death Trade & Training
    • Holding Space
  • FAQ
  • Companions for Pregnancy Loss
  • Suggested Reading
  • Donate Here
  • 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

Martha Turner, Midwife of Death and Birth, 2021 President

Picture
Martha comes to Full Circle of Living and Dying from a life-long background in Midwifery and Women’s health. She is nurse midwife and nurse practitioner who obtained her nursing degree from CSU, Chico and Master’s degree from UC, San Francisco. She has delivered over 1300 babies, has worked with women from all walks of life. Her work has been primarily with women from economically vulnerable populations in Yuba, Sutter, Yolo and Lake Counties. In addition, she worked with the Navajo and Hopi in Tuba City and the Lakota Sioux on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. World-wide her calling has taken her to work Uganda, Nigeria and Haiti. After 25 + years working with pregnancy and birth she was ready to retire but knew she still had much to offer her beloved local community.
Martha learned about Full Circle in 2017 while reading a most interesting article in the local paper on the California’s End of Life Option Act. The journalist was interviewing Akhila Murphy who referred to the people in her organization as End-of-Life Doulas and Midwives of Death. This caught her full attention!
Time was spent with Akhila learning about the work Full Circle does with people at the end of life. Martha had been drawn to this special work after being with her mother during her last chapter of life and recently with two different close friends who died. She believes there are powerful parallels in the transformative times of BIRTH and DEATH for the individual soul who is being born or who is dying and for the constellation of family and friends who participate and bear witness to this transformation.
Martha joined Full Circle and feels honored to be on the Board of Directors as their fledgling secretary (someone had to do it!). She is interning with Akhila and others in the art of end of life care and seeking ongoing education and training in all matters relating to this chapter of life. Her special area of interest is with planning for the possibility of Alzheimer’s and other dementias and how to construct a creatively positive and crystal clear dementia Death Care Plan before losing one’s autonomy to the disease.

​

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.