Claire is the UK based Founder of Only with Love and Chair of the Home Funeral Network. She is dedicated to empowering and guiding families to tenderly take care of their own and can undertake all aspects of a home and family led funeral. 

Claire is passionate about sharing her skills, knowledge and experience to help others and is recognized internationally as a leading Home Funeral Guide, Advocate, Celebrant and Natural Death Care Educator. 

Claire was shortlisted for her OWL funeral services at the UK Good Funeral Awards in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and awarded Runner Up, Green Funeral Director of the Year 2016 and Runner Up, Best Death Related Public Engagement Event 2017. Most recently Claire was honored by Amnesty International and by the Queen, for her Services to Consumer Rights.

Workshop A: Home Funeral 101 - Body Care Basics

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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