footprints into the sky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creating sacred spaces that saves the Environment,

 is Economical   and    Emotionally Healing

Welcome and thank you

     for your interest in

Guided Home Funerals LLC

Resources / Links

 

Smithsonian Magazine  March 2009

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Presence-of-Mind-Which-Way-Out.html

 

One With The Earth"  by  J.F.Pirro in Main Line Today, April 2010 issue

  http://www.mainlinetoday.com/search/One-with-the-Earth

 

 

"Death and Dying: How To Plan a Home Funeral" by Leah Zerbe

     Interviewing on NHNE website ( New Heaven,

     New Earth)    http://nhne-pulse.org/how-to-plan-a-home-funeral

 

 

 

 

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Other resources

  Over the Rainbow preserving the memory of your loved one ashes.       www.otrmemorials.com     

"A Family Undertaking -  Home Funerals in America,” 

a POV PBS Documentary by Elizabeth Webstrate,     

 www.PBS.org/POV/POV2004/afamilyundertaking or available from Netflix.com

 

 “Passing Through Our Hands”    "a Home Funeral guide video on how to provide after-  

 death care of the body"       www.PassingThroughOurHands.com

                                                                       

 

heart pendant designed from ashes

Books:

 

"Grave Matters:  A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural 

   Way of Burial"   by Mark Harris     www.gravematters.us

 

"Caring for the Dead - Your Final Act of Love"   by Lisa Carlson   Lisa is now working 

    on an updated version of this book.

 

"Dealing Creatively With Death - A Manual of Death Education & Simple Burial"    

   by Ernest Morgan

 

"The Natural Death Handbook"   by Josefine Speyer & Stephanie Wienrich and "The 

   New Natural Death Handbook"   by Nicholas Albery & Stephanie Wienrich

               

"Final Gifts:  Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, & Communications of  

   the Dying "   by Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley

 

"Living Into Dying: A Journal of Spiritual and Practical Deathcare for Family 

   and Community"   by Nancy Jewel Poer

 

“Talking About Death Won’t Kill You”   by Virginia Morris

 

“Sacred Dying - Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life”   by Megory

   Anderson

 

“Remembering Well:  Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death”   by Sarah                                

   York

 

“Companioning the Bereaved”  A soulful guide for Caregivers  by Alan Wolfelt Ph.D

 

“Final Passage”   by Barbara Harris Whitfield

 

“Intimate Death”   by Marie De Hennezel

 

“The Final Crossing”   by Scott Eberle

 

“Dying Well”   by Ira Byock

 

“The Four Things That Matter Most”    by Ira Byock

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Kalispell, Montana

 

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Companioning the Bereaved” 

 

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Daily News

9/29/10

 

 How to Plan a Home Funeral (Yes, It's Legal--and Doable)