Jerrigrace Lyons, minister, death educator and midwife, founded the non-profit Final Passages in 1995 to inform people about little known funeral options, conscious dying, natural death care rights and practicalities, green burial and the benefits of bringing funerals back into the home and family care. Her pioneering work in guiding hundreds of family-directed home funerals has been featured in worldwide publications and in the PBS documentary, “A Family Undertaking”. She has also created and developed a 3-tiered certificate program in the field of conscious dying, spiritual midwifery, home funeral guidance and green burial called, “Honoring Life’s Final Passage." She is a board member emeritus of the National Home Funeral Alliance.

Workshop A: Home Funeral 101 - Basic Body Care

Sunday, 9:00am
A home funeral conference staple, this session walks participants through natural death care of the body for an expected death at home:  setting features, bathing and dressing, hygiene; use of cooling agents; what you need to have on hand; what role home funeral guides play and what the family is responsible for; and ceremonial aspects of the experience. Learn from the best, Jerrigrace Lyons of Final Passages, Olivia Bareham of Sacred Crossings, and Claire Turnham of Only with Love.

Workshop C: Home Funeral 201 - Advanced Body Care Practices

 Sunday, 10:45am
Building on the basics of BodyCare 101, in this session Jerrigrace Lyons, Olivia Bareham, and Claire Turnham take a deeper dive into care of the body; how to move the body; casketing and shrouding; and the role of the home funeral guide following complicated situations (sudden death, stillbirth after autopsy/organ donation repair, pacemaker removal, etc.)

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