Are you curious about alternative funeral options? Are you interested in home funerals or eco-friendly burials, or simply looking to avoid the exorbitant costs of modern-day funerals? In this episode with Death Midwife and educator Jerrigrace Lyons, she answers your questions and shares how reclaiming end of life care can be a transformative practice that alters our relationship with death and grieving.

Watch the trailer for the PBS documentary “A Family Undertaking:P.O.V.” about Jerrigrace’s work.

Find Jerrigrace’s trainings and programs here. 

Do you have limited listening time? We've identified some especially moving parts of this episode with Jerrigrace:  

• 3:20 - Jeri’s touching, personal journey to becoming a death midwife through caring for a friend after their death
• 10:10 - Caring for and washing a body as a transformative practice to help you move from fear and uncertainty to relief and peace
• 15:04 - Diminishing our fears around dying through caring for someone after death and embracing and restoring old traditions
• 19:04 - Jenn’s personal journey to after-death care, learning our legal rights when a loved one dies, and taking all the time we need to be with a loved one after death
• 22:20 - Home funerals and their ability to slow down the process of saying goodbye
• 32:29 - Inviting children into home funerals and dispelling the mystery and fear around death
• 35:10 - The revolving door of birth and death - the thinning of the veil
• 44:27 - Learn more about alternative funeral options and end of life doula trainings

 

Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

https://calendly.com/revjenncormier/tea-with-jenn-what-s-your-big-dream?month=2023-11

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein