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After the Last Breath: After-Death Care & Home Funerals

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Class Description

Description

This workshop unpacks the role of the death midwife from the final breath, through the 3-day home vigil and funeral, until final disposition. It is open to professional and non-professional end-of-life caregivers and anyone wishing to care for their loved-one naturally, at home, according to personal, religious and cultural traditions.

Topics explored include:

  • after-death rites and rituals
  • legalities and logistics of a 1 to 3-day home vigil
  • the death midwife kit
  • care of the body (bathing, dressing, anointing); shrouding
  • decorating the cremation casket
  • laying the body in-honor
  • dry-ice preservation
  • completing the death-care directive
  • unexpected death and holding space in the ER from life support to death support
  • stillbirth/infant death and bringing baby home
  • and self-care for caregivers/preventing burnout
  • We will use films, meditations, written exercises and demonstrations to support the information being shared.

Films, meditations, written exercises, demonstrations, and hands-on practice support the information shared

Note: 

This program will be offered online. Sessions of all our online programs will be recorded and shared with registrants after each is completed for 90 days.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

For Single Evening Events, Series, Half-Days and Mini-Workshops, Walking Tours, Single-Event Webinars or O’Cast™ Recordings, there are no refunds or course credits for these offerings.

For Full Workshops, Ongoing Courses and Webinars and Online Courses:

  • Refunds are available minus a processing fee* if you cancel up to 11 business days prior to the first day of the program.
  • Course credits are available, minus a processing fee* if you cancel up to 3 business days prior to the first day of the program.

*The processing fee for cancellation is $15 for programs costing less than $250, and $35 for programs costing $250 and up.

No refunds or credits will be given for cancellations less than 3 business days prior to the first day of a program, or if a student does not attend a program. The estimated refund processing time is two to three weeks.

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The New York Open Center’s mission is to bring the holistic, ecological and spiritual worldview into the contemporary world. Founded in 1984 in the heart of downtown New York City, The Open Center offers programs, workshops, conferences, lectures and performances that awaken the potential of the human...

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