Everyone has the right to care for their dead. (Only nine states require some involvement of a funeral director (Maine is not one of them), usually for paperwork, body transportation or disposition witness. CT, IA, IL, IN, LA, MI, NE, NJ, VT)

Home funerals invite family, friends, and community into a healing after-death care experience in a safe and familiar place, with care performed by loving hands. In this session, we will go over the basics of a home funeral, from getting your loved one home if they have died elsewhere, to how to wash, cool, care for, and maintain the body, as well as ideas for a meaningful home vigil for your loved one. We will hold a “mock” home funeral if time and space allow.

*Individually wrapped, homemade skull cakelets will be provided.

Die Well Death Education

We're all going to die, so why don't we talk about it? I'm not saying talk about it so incessantly that people generally avoid you, (although you can if you want - I usually do) but rather talk about what we would like our end-of-life experience, our death, and our disposition to look and be like. With clear and concise communication and preparation, you can - and will - create the strongest possibility that you will experience a "good death." 

About DWDE

Leona Oceania has always been passionate and curious about end-of-life issues. Motivated by this, she trained to become a Home Funeral Guide, End of Life Doula, and Life Legacy Facilitator. She is also a Hospice volunteer, Funeral Consumer Advocate, Death Cafe Facilitator, and Death Educator. Leona's primary focus is to educate and motivate people to simply start the conversation. Once we can talk more openly about death and normalize the conversation, the better we will be able to connect with our own mortality and be proactive about creating a "good death" for ourselves and others. 

***AT PIPER SHORES!*** NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

This program is held at Piper Shores in partnership with Scarborough Public Library and OPEN TO ALL. 

Piper Shores “Founders Room” at the Oceanside campus, just inside the Main Entrance. Staff will be there to steer attendees in the right direction. Park anywhere labeled “Employee” or “Visitor." Piper Shores is located at 15 Piper Rd, Scarborough, Maine 04074