Wild Sacred Death with Death Doula Amana Mayfield Faulkner

Highlights:Amana’s career as a death doula, what that is exactly and what it can look like to support people at the end of life.Supporting loved ones at their end of life and complexities and legalities around that.The medicalization of death over the last several generations.The significance of that first and last breathe of a human.When the quality of life of the dying person is at odds with the family’s wishes.How and why our western culture sucks at death and dying. The unexpected ways death is linked into our everyday life cycles. The new options for people’s bodies are choosing to “dispose” of their bodies after death.After-death practices in western and abroad cultures.The similarities between birth and death.Witnessing the soul leaving a body.Reclaiming death and grief as a Wild Woman practice.Parenting and languaging around death.Grief, complex grief, processing grief healthily, and how unprocessed grief effects us, Links to “Pussy; A reclamation” by Regena Thomashauer . https://mamagenas.com/books/Kimberly Ann Johnson podcast episode as mentioned: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sex-birth-trauma-with-kimberly-ann-johnson/id1286485146?i=1000510710780Amana’s website:https://earthingnova.love/Additional info about body disposable: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/15980-death-8-burial-alternatives.html Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.