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Reclaiming the lost art and healing ritual of a home funeral
Our Services
OUR MINISTERIAL SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Home Funeral consultation
- Coordination with hospital, hospice, coroner and funeral home
- Education and guidance for preparing and preserving the body for a 1 to 3-
day vigil. - Assistance with creating altars and sacred space
- Guidance in completing and filing required documentation (Death Certificate, Disposition Permit, Authorization for Cremation/Burial)
- Near-
death and after- death prayer and meditation vigils - Delivery of a simple shroud, cardboard cremation casket or pine box to the home
- Guidance in decorating and consecrating the casket
- Locating and coordinating with crematory or cemetery personnel
- Celebrant services for funeral ceremony – (includes personalized funeral rites, rituals and eulogy)
- Resources for music, photography, flowers, video memorials
- Coordinating transport of the body from the home to place of disposition
- Bereavement follow-
up care and consultation as needed
OUR EDUCATION SERVICES INCLUDE:
Presentations of 30 – 90 minutes. These include films and topics which can be tailored to the needs and wishes of your group.
Workshops and Trainings range from 1/2 day to 2 full days.
Topics Include:
- The Benefits of a Home Funeral
- Conscious dying – What are my rights? How can I prepare?
- The Legalities and Logistics of caring for the body at home
- Meeting CA legal requirements – acquiring and filing the necessary paperwork
- The significance of a 3-
day vigil. How to create sacred space - Overview of different religious philosophies on the soul at the time of death
- Casket, Coffin or Shroud
- Green Burials – what does it mean to be buried ‘green’
- The history of Funerals in America: – including embalming, cremation and burial practices
Please call 310/968-
Sacred Crossings provides education and guidance to families wishing to create personal and deeply meaningful funerals at home.
"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.”
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