Doula offers comfort during vigil. 
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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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 END-OF-LIFE DOULA SERVICES

Trained End-of-Life 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
  • Assistance for Medical Aid in Dying, California's End-of-life Option
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 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 (530)268-5652 or text (916)397-5443​

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, and End-of-Life Options Doula training with ACAMAID.
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. ​