Death Doula/Midwifery, Green Burial, Home Funeral Guidance
Learn how to help family or friends exercise their legal right to create uniquely designed end-of-life ceremony, how to support natural death care of a body and other home funeral arrangements such as paperwork, transportation and other logistics. Discover the many benefits of home funerals and why people choose the ancient ways of our ancestors. Explore green burial and other forms of releasing the body after death that are environmentally friendly. Discuss caring for ourselves while practicing this deep work with others.
This training is part 2 of a 3-level certificate program. Even if you are not considering becoming a Death Doula/Midwife, our Level 2 training is a profound experience. We invite you to join us.
Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17, 2026 – ONLINE
In Level 2 we explore:
- Care and honoring of a body during a home funeral
- Legalities and logistics for family-directed home funerals
- Facts and films about home funerals and green burial
- Ecological, economical, social, spiritual benefits of home funerals and green burial
- Guest speaker on a personal home family funeral
- Consulting with families to prepare for death
- Forms for families and agencies in your community
- What to have in your home funeral midwifery kit
- Use of therapeutic essential oils for anointing
- Self-Care for death doulas, midwives and guides
Regular Price: $625
Special 2026 Price: $575
Get the Early Bird savings of $50 – automatically applied through May 2, 2026.
Partial scholarship discounts are available. Contact us to discuss ways we can make it possible for you to attend. 707-824-0268
To Register:
Online: Scroll back to the top of the page. Choose Deposit or Pay In Full. Then “Add to Cart”.
By Check: Write us a note with your name, address, email and phone #, and say that you are registering for Level 2 September 2024. Mail it with a check payable to Final Passages to: Final Passages, PO Box 1721, Sebastopol, CA 95473
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Instructor: Jerrigrace Lyons, Founder of Final Passages
Jerrigrace Lyons is a Death Midwife, End of Life Doula, Death Educator, a ULC Minister, Reiki Master, Author, Celebrant and a renowned pioneer of the home funeral movement. She is the Founder and Director of Final Passages. She created a 3-tiered certificate training program, guided nearly 500 family-directed home funerals to date, and pioneered a new field of “home funeral guidance.” Jerrigrace is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary A Family Undertaking, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Jerrigrace consults with individuals who wish to plan for their end of life at any time in their life stream. She specializes in home funeral planning and is a Medical Aid in Dying Doula, supporting those who choose this option and those who are present to witness and hold space. She is a compassionate listener and loves to support those in the threshold. She uses conscious dying rituals for releasing attachments.
Jerrigrace heads up Final Passages Core Council and is also a member of SoCoElda (Sonoma County End of Life Alliance.
Guest Presenter on a personal family-directed home funeral – to be announced
One of our students made this movie of Level 1 and 2 training.
AFTER YOU COMPLETE LEVEL 1 AND 2:
Level 3 includes a certificate of completion for our death midwifery and home funeral guidance program.
For local graduates, ask about Internship options. Jerrigrace is usually available by telephone to assist any graduates with a home funeral.
It was an honor to receive your sharing and teaching us about your work, your calling to it, and of yourself. For myself, I think most of all I appreciate your realness and being just plain comfortable with not only this work, but your place in it all. Thank you for that. The sense of ease you and Mark model is perhaps the best lesson of them all. With gratitude to you both — Sheila
