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Home Death Care and Funerals

Personalising the rituals and ceremony we use for the final transition

In NSW your person can legally stay at home for up to 5 days after death.

We believe in honouring life with with authenticity, respect and genuine care.

We support people through meaningful, natural and individually tailored farewells.

We are here to provide as much support or input as you need during this precious time.

You can keep your person at home for up to 5 days.

You can wash them and dress them.

You can pray or chant around them.

You can do any religious or spiritual practices that you believe in.

You can take a fingerprint, or a hand mold or even a lock of hair.

You can eat food and have a drink in the room with them.

You can build your own coffin.

You can buy a coffin from us and decorate it yourself.

You can make your own shroud.

You can have a service in your backyard.

You can have a ceremony at a park, a pub, the beach, a hall or a church.

We see death as a rite of passage and we treat it as the sacred event that it is.

Every life and every death is as individual as the person, so in order to

honour each death we suggest a holistic and personalised approach.

This takes thought, planning, conversations and then some more conversations.

While some legal paperwork needs to be done and some government fees have to be paid,

almost everything else can be individual to you.

We can talk through options in regards to burial or cremation.

Within these options there are a range of choices.

It is not just location or headstones, what type of headstone, the wording and what to include... or leave out!

When it comes to ashes there are choices around scattering, internment, sculptures, jewelry or even tattoos!

You can always write your own eulogy.

You can also record one for yourself to be played on the day.

Perhaps a living wake is more your style!

Songs? Poems? A slide show?

What photo do you want on your order of service?

Do you want an order of service?

Would you prefer to give out something like a bookmark or a stubby cooler?

We encourage open conversations and a whole lot of planning around all of these things.

We believe this is part of the grief journey that can be eased when planning and input has taken place.

We can be your holistic guide on this journey or we can work with the funeral director of your choice.

If you need further help you can get in touch.