Table of Contents for Resources Elsewhere

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Throughout the pan-death process Death Midwifery and related services           General (directories) Pre-/during death Music Thanatology     General Bedside Singing     U.K.    New Zealand     U.S.A. Hospice and Palliative Care     World-Wide U.K.U.S.A. Death Doulas/Thanadoulas/similar roles and training     Australia    Netherlands      Scotland         U.K.          U.S.A.   General Pan-Death Care   Resources on Natural Dying and Death processes   World-wide     Australia       Scotland        South Africa         U.K.    U.S.A.

Post-Death Care Providers Home Funeral Guides (directories for U.S.A. and U.K.) Training for Home Funeral Guides     Australia      U.K.U.S.A.   Further information on Post-death Information on Post-Death Care Funeral Celebrants     AustraliaU.K.U.S.A. Green Burial     Green Burial General Information Green Burial Cemeteries AustraliaIrelandU.K.U.S.A. Other Green Options for Remains     GeneralU.K.U.S.A. Bio-degradable coffins and shrouds (including making your own)     ItalyNew ZealandU.K.U.S.A.

(For Canadian pre-death resources, click here: for Canadian post-death resources, click here)

National Home Funeral Alliance — new alliance of home funeral (and death midwifery) organizations providing advocacy on the value of home funerals, green burials, etc., including member directory

The International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement The IWG, a non-profit organization, supports leaders in the field of death, dying and bereavement in their efforts to stimulate and enhance innovative ideas, research, and practice.   Vision statement: A world where dying, death, and bereavement are an open part of all cultures

Australian Doula College — includes End-of-Life Doula training

Final Fling — South Africa — excellent website on all aspects of death (including pre- and post-death elements), and finding support for a personalized death journey and friends experience

Final Fling: Alternative funerals, green and DIY (home) funerals page — includes links to further information

Natural Death Centre (U.K.) — "lifting the lid on dying and funerals", one of the oldest organizations in the world addressing alternative death care and options.

Dying Matters coalition — information, regular newsletter and events on the development of death care in the U.K.; as well as a list of member organizations.   See also the Find Me Help section — finding local help and support for people in the last years of life.

Music Thanatology Association International — overview of music thanatology, and including a list of associates world-wide (use search box for Canadian associates)

Threshold Choir — Sussex — see Threshold Choir locations or Email

Full Circle Singers — New Zealand

Threshold Choirs — listing for choirs in various states in the U.S.A., plus one in Canada, and the U.K.   Email

Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance — information and members list of present hospice organizations throughout the world — listings for palliative care associations around the world (see at bottom download members list)

International Children's Palliative Care Network — working towards the rights of children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families to receive the best quality of life and care regardless of which country they live in

Hospice UK — including information on hospices in the UK (see Hospice care finder)

DMOZ directory of Hospices — search function for individual states, as well as pediatric palliative care

Natural Death Care Centre — an incorporated association and a registered charity located in the Byron Shire, Northern NSW, Australia — offering pan-death 'death walker' training (equal to a practitioner of death midwifery)

Jolanda Hijmans Uitvaartverzorging — death doula and teacher (unfortunately, the website is in Dutch, so we can't tell you any more about its servces).

Living/Dying Well Death Doula training — three levels of training available; courses take place in Barcombe, near Lewes, East Sussex:   contact about the training

Soul Midwives Foundation — including a registry of trained soul midwives and training courses    Email

National End-of-Life Doula Alliance — offers certificate of proficiency (although this is not yet a 'third-party' and regulated certification) — current news on development

The Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort — New York — death doula training

Natural Death Care Centre — an incorporated association and a registered charity located in the Byron Shire, Northern NSW, Australia — offering pan-death 'death walker' training (equal to a practitioner of death midwifery)

Soul Midwife Training — information on their training program

Final Passages — Sebastopol, CA — training in home funeral guiding internationally, handbook available

CINDEA Home/Family-led Funerals basic information — PDFs on General Timeline (what to do when), post-deathcare and 'how to' videos

How to wrap a body in a burial shroud for natural burial — thanks to AskingLot

Funeral Celebrants Association Australia Incorporated — directory of celebrants

Funeral Celebrants Directory — search for celebrants in your area

Dead Good Guides — offer funeral celebrant (and other) services, including rites of passage training

The Good Funeral Guide — independent, not-for-profit consumer advice and advocacy service, including home funerals

Finding A Celebrant — hosted by In-sight Books, Inc — gives names, contact info and short bios for funeral celebrants in 5 countries (and by province or state).   Many are funeral directors, but may have additional training in personalization of funeral/memorial services.

Celebrant Foundation and Institute — locator for funeral (and other) celebrants in Canada and U.S.A.   Check also their celebrants site for funeral celebrants.

Natural burial — overview in Wikipedia

Gathered Here — information on green cemeteries and products in Australia

Woodbrook Natural Burial Ground — information on new green burial ground in Ireland

Natural Death Centre — extensive resources for U.K., Canada and U.S A

Green Burial Council — developing eco-friendly end-of-life rituals, protecting the legitimate benefits of environmentally sustainable deathcare, and using burial as a means of acquiring, restoring, and stewarding natural areas registery of approved funeral providers, cemeteries, and cremation disposition programs for the U.S. and Canada

Cemetery Group — information about green burials and listings for locations in the U.S.A., and including multiple home videos of home funerals

Resomation Ltd — information on how resomation works (U.K. company) and where is Resomation/Aquamation permitted (US and Canada)

Green cremation — via alkaline hydrolysis (resomation)

New England Burials At Sea — east coast U.S.A. — full-body burial at sea (including FAQs about full-body burial in the U.S.A.)

Capsula Mundi — information on egg-shaped containers, made from corn and potato starch — in which the body is put in a fetal position, put in a green burial grave and tree planted overtop; also working on legislation to be able to use them in Italy

Natural Funeral Company — Eco-Weave casket (from bamboo) and other products — 71 Colin Shaw Lane, Ponsonby 1011, Auckland

Eco-pod — moulded (mummy-like shape) by hand from recycled newspapers