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Greetings! We
hope that you will explore Journeying
Beyond 's pages on Death Midwifery
services, and 'end of life' (EOL)
and Advance-care Plannng consultations,
in Victoria, B.C. All of the
pages are listed on the left menu, as well
as at the top and bottom of each page.
You can get more information about Death
Midwifery and Home Funerals by visiting
the CINDEA
pages on The
Pan-Death Movement,
Death
Midwifery, and the Post-death
Care/Home Funerals.
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Journeying
Beyond
's Death Midwifery services include 'end
of life' consultations (comprehensive
Advance Directives and Representation Agreements,
as well as basic information on Power of
Attorney/etc. documents), support
for the Death Journeyer and their families
throughout the pan-death process, funeral
plans, funeral and/or memorial celebrant
services, and initial grief counselling.
'Home funeral' services including
an educational workshop — "By
My Own Heart and Hands" (see
dates below) — reviewing
all of the practical elements of post-death
care, necessary paperwork, and final disposition
arrangements.
The term "pan-death" refers to
the whole process, pre/during/post death
— including education/information on
post-death care at home and required documentation,
which are often referred to as a "home
funeral". The acronym
'DWENA' implies any and all options for
'Deathcare — Wholistic, Ecological,
and/or Natural Alternatives'. Please
check out our new By
My Own Heart and Hand home funerals
workshop
page.
Journeying
Beyond services include support
to Death Journeyers and their families through
an 'elective death' choice of MAiD (Medical
Aid in Dying) or VSED (Voluntary
Stopping Eating and Drinking). We
cannot provide medical support; but will
provide basic or access information, and
emotional and/or ceremonial support.
If
you are interested in Journeying
Beyond 's Death Midwifery &
ACP/EOL planning services in Victoria, B.C.,
or wish more information about these and
related services,
please contact Pashta via email
or call 250-383-4065
(available by phone,
email or Skype).
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Workshops
and Other Events
"By
My Own Heart and Hand" basics in
home funerals
and Bedside Singing workshops
Please
contact
us for further information on
either of the workshops.
Next
workshop on Hornby Island February 18-9,
2017
 
CSC
radio and article series "DIY Funerals:
Rite at home'
Two BC CINDEA
practitioners, and other DWENA practitioners
and family members, will be interviewed
in a CBC series —
the first article "Death
midwives offer a 'more authentic' funeral
experience"
Podcasts
of the live interviews will be listed when
available.
"Returning
to a Natural Ending" Power Point
presentations
These 2-hour
presentations address Death Midwifery, home
funerals, and green burial/disposition options. They
are available (by donation)
for any group of any size in Victoria, or
elsewhere on Vancouver Island (travel
expenses required). Please
contact
us if you are interested
in considering a presentation for your group.
Three-in-one sheet flyers available in PDF
format.
Films
from the Parlour —
Documentaries and Discussion on Dying and
Death —
once
a month in Victoria, B.C., starting again
in September 2015 —
contact
us for film, date and location
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“By
My Own Heart and Hand — basics
in home funerals” workshop
CINDEA
and Journeying Beyond
co-sponsored the “By
My Own Heart and Hand — basics
in home funerals”
workshop, offered on the Canadian
west coast. We are looking
towards being able to offer the workshop
via video conferencing, so that it
is accessible to all Canadians.
The
event included an evening showing
of “A Family Undertaking”
and discussion; and a full-day workshop
the next day — which included
‘hands on’ practice in post-death
care, and a review of both the required
paperwork and the general timeline
of ‘what is done when’.
A
trick for easily washing the hair
This
introductory workshop is primarily
intended to help families in preparing
for, and planning, a home funeral. However,
it is also an opportunity for alternative
death-care practitioners to better
understand the basics of a home funeral,
as it might relate to the experience
of their future clients — as
well as being the practicum for Beyond
Hospice students.
Navigating
a staircase with a casket
Further
workshops are being planned for the
west coast, but also available via
Skype in other areas of Canada —
please contact
us if you are interested
in arranging a workshop.
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Safely
rolling the body onto its side
Washing
the back of the body
Washing the legs
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Testimonials
My
family used Pashta MaryMoon's
services before and after
the recent passing of our
mother. While
Pashta provides many services,
for us, she was a support
for both my mother and us
children before the passing
as well as after. With
her help we planned both my
mom's woodland green burial
funeral for close friends
and family, as well as her
ceremony — open to everyone
— later that afternoon. Pashta
was the master of ceremonies
for both events.
Death
is not something I had very
much experience with before
my mother got ill. Pashta's
experience and level of comfort
with the dying process made
it easier for the entire family.
Her gentle nature
helped us plan and organize
an event no one looks forward
to. Her ability
to bring our family together
to organize in a way that
worked for everyone was amazing. The
support she showed my mom
in her final months was truly
a blessing. The
support she showed me as I
cared for my mom full-time
leading up to her death gave
me the strength and self belief
to realize that I could really
do this.
Pashta
has an amazing way with people. She
made an effort to get to know
as many friends and family
as possible before the passing
so she would be a familiar
face at the funeral she was
leading. The
funeral and Ceremony were
beautiful, personal and deeply
moving. Pashta's
kindness, support and help
let our family be at peace
before the passing and feel
taken care of after.
From
all of us we can't thank her
enough for everything and
would like to recommend her
for anyone looking for a similar
experience. (DS,
daughter)
Pashta's
wonderful, caring support
and amazing knowledge regarding
Home Funerals made our mother's
home funeral a very special
and intimate experience for
our family and friends. She
made herself available to
speak with other family members
who were struggling with the
concept of a home funeral.
Whenever there
were questions or concerns,
Pashta was always there with
her never ending compassion.
She has definitely supported
and guided our family to crossover
the threshold of death and
helped make it a beautiful,
accepting, natural and real
journey.
We
are very blessed and very
grateful for her making this
uncertain decision of doing
a home funeral an everlasting
final act of love for our
beloved mother that we will
always hold dear to our hearts.
After our mothers
celebration of life and cremation,
we all gathered and shared
our experiences. We
all expressed the same sentiments
of joy, love, amazement and
courage that we managed to
keep our mother at home and
be so comfortable with it.
Thank you infinitely
Pashta, (Deborah
Magdee and Family)
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Articles,
Podcasts, Webinars
Vital
Conversations: Dialogues on Living and Dying
webinar replay
Dialogue with Kim Adams and Pashta MaryMoon
from CINDEA on National Healthcare
Decisions Day in the US and National Advance
Care Planning Day in Canada — on What
is the Pan Death Continuum and Why is it
Important? This
YouTube version (a second
interview) also had technical difficulties,
but not as many of the original; and Kim
and Pashta were able to have a much more
in-depth conversation. You
can request notices on upcoming webinars
through Vital
Conversations: Dialogues on Living and Dying
Well.
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News
See
CINDEA's
Media
and Recent Canadian News
for articles and news stories.
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Pashta
MaryMoon, Death Midwife for Journeying
Beyond, is also the director
of CINDEA.
More information about pan-death care is
available on that site, as well as seasonal
updates on Canadian development
— contact
CINDEA to sign up for
the updates.
Please visit (click on the
name graphic below) for more information
on Death Midwifery in Canada.
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is also a member of the National
Home Funeral Alliance —
an extensive website addressing the
Home Funeral movement in the U.S.A.,
although providing listings for alternative
death-care practitioners both in the
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