Death & Dying

I offer practical, emotional and ceremonial support for individuals and families preparing for, moving through, and living alongside death.

My work is about creating space for what matters: connection, choice, dignity and love. Whether death is expected or unexpected, at home or in hospital, surrounded by family or held more privately.

I have a particular interest in expected death, home funerals, Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD), and pregnancy and baby loss.

I work alongside existing medical, palliative care and funeral professionals where appropriate. My role is non-medical: to support you and your family with presence, preparation, practical care and ceremony.

  • • Documentation Support:

    • Advance care planning

    • Enduring guardians & power of attorneys

    • Wills

    • Practical & Logistical Conversations

    • Inner Life Mentoring — for both dying person & also their family or caregivers

    • Co-ordination Support

    • Preparing the co-ordination and supports for the journey ahead.

    • Setting up meal trains, weekly timetables & community crowd funding, if wished for.

    • Accompanying and transporting clients to medical or wellbeing appointments, if wished for.

    •Legacy Support + Living Funerals

    • Working one-on-one with individuals to document their life story as a book

    • Recording online tapes & recorded messages to leave behind for loved ones 

    • Helping to organise & facilitate a ‘living funeral’

    • Recording online tapes & recorded messages to leave behind for loved ones 

    • Support in writing memorial speeches that truly reflect the person’s life.

    • Comfort care

      • Hydration, repositioning, creating a peaceful environment

      • Preparing the space for death: soft lighting, gentle music, familiar and meaningful items

      • Sitting vigil with the person & family in the final days and hours. Peaceful, grounded presence.

      • Making space for fear, uncertainty, grief and the many emotions that can arise around dying

        Co-ordination Support

      • Co-ordinating & communicating with family and caregivers. Supporting shift rotation, assigning of tasks, people’s wishes.

      • Setting up meal trains, weekly timetable & community crowd funding, if wished for.

    • After-Death

      • Gentle body care: washing or dressing of body (independent or supporting loved ones to do themselves)

      • Arranging cuddle cot (if baby), cold plate or techni ice with Solace End Of Life Services if wishing to keep person at home for a few days.

      • Alternatively, co-ordinating with a chosen funeral home to keep body with them until ceremony, burial or cremation

      • Facilitation of ceremony. Discussing the many options eg traditional, at home, alternative, public or private. Burial or cremation.

    • Optional: 2- and 4-week bereavement check-ins with family

    • Optional: Transition/Belief Mentoring for family & caregivers

Packages & Pricing

Supports and therefore my pricing is personalised because no two end-of-life journeys are the same.

I can offer individual sessions or personalised combination packages.

Please reach out to me with your wishes so I can provide a personalised quote based on what you and your family’s wishes are.

  • "It is our birth right to be educated, empowered and truly supported in our births, lives and deaths"

    Meg May