What is Home Based Death Care?
Nicole offers you support and guidance, along with mortuary-level specialised cooling equipment, so you can care for your person.
The purpose of our cooling equipment is to aid in maintaining the physical condition of your person after death. The cooling blanket & Plates systems can be used in any setting and your person will look like they are snuggled in their bed.
A quiet compressor by the side of the bed maintains mortuary level of care. Nicole will check in with you regularly to ensure that you feel supported while also being conscious of not interrupting your space and time.
If your person did not die at home, they can be transferred into your home where you can nurture and care for them. Your family and friends, your community can surround you all with much love. You can undertake celebrations, vigils, ceremonies – all within the comfort of your environment.
Nicole can support your choices and has the backing of Australia’s finest Holistic Funeral Company, Natural Grace to ensure your choice to engage home based death care is aligned to your wishes and needs.
Whether that be in your own home or place of choosing, or the Melbourne based Sanctuary.
Natural Grace can also uplift your person into their care after release by the coroner and then into your care at home.
When you need a slower goodbye and the time to reconnect with your person, Home Based Death Care could be an option to consider
Traditional Healing
Home-based death care is not morbid and it’s not scary. It can be a most beautiful time of peace after what may have been a challenging experience.
For centuries, we cared for our people from before birth to after death in our homes and like a lots of the western world we moved away from this practice. In our some cultures, it still remains as current practice to care for your person at home.
Nicole has been trained in the art of accompanying families and the deceased with the holistic care provided by Natural Grace and Preparing the Way, Certificate 4 in End of Life Doula skills set , together these lesson and with personal experience with her own parents and dearest friends, there is a uniqueness of healing with the practice of caring for your person after death, spending time outside the traditional boundaries of visitation. Having a home like environment and the freedom of time and kindness. There is some deep healing and acceptance that occurs when you can spend sacred time caring for them; bathing them, brushing their hair, dressing them, caring for them as you may have always done…or never had the chance to do. As little or as much as you need. Just being in the presence of each other after death with no rush, and not in a clinical environment after long term illness, can be soothing, or in terms of a sudden death, not having your person rushed away, returning home stops time and leaves a different grief echo in our hearts.
Partnering with Natural Grace at The Sanctuary
You may choose to have the body of your person transferred to one of the Natural Grace Sanctuaries rather than be at home, Nicole will support your care and escort your beloved to the calm and gentle Sanctuary located at the Natural Grace’s Melbourne home, in Fairfield or Woodend Victoria.
You can naturally and gently care for your person’s body during their time at the Sanctuary. You may choose to participate in the preparation of the body if you wish or be supported by Nicole
Please talk Nicole about holding a vigil. The Sanctuary is serene, comfortable and fully equipped for you to make a home away from home as you begin the planning of saying goodbye.
Our Melbourne Sanctuary is conveniently located at 291 Arthur Street, Fairfield
Nicole is proud to share your care at the Natural Grace Sanctuary, it provides sacred shelter for the dead, and gentle location and moment to feel grounded in guidance for the living.
As an Independent funeral guide trained by Natural Grace, Nicole also consults to the wider funerary community, sharing the value and importance of choice and the option and delivery of home based death care. This can be a gentle conduit to more traditional practices or a stand alone personalised element of the funeral process.
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Photo Lounge At Sanctuary Natural Grace Fairfield
