Grief House Death Care
Steward Offerings

In both Atlanta, GA and Portland, OR we have Death Care Stewards who are familiar with resources and supports, both within our Death Care Collective and beyond. They use our Earthly Houses and Moon Cycles to locate your particular needs, now and upcoming, and work to support you in finding individualized follow up care with practitioners. This follow up care will be booked directly with death care workers. 

 

We offer three structures for meetings with our Death Care Stewards, with increased levels of support, to get you connected to a death care plan that works for each individual situation.

 

 

Presence & Guidance 

An in-person or virtual meeting (up to 3 hours) to identify specific individual and family needs, determine existing resources and gaps in care. During this meeting, using the Moon Cycles and Earthly Houses as guides, your Death Care Steward will help you develop a plan for support. 
 

Standard rate: $250

Community (our discounted) rate: $200

Pay It Forward rate: $300

 

Presence, Guidance & Planning

This includes the Presence & Guidance meeting plus a written care plan with a summary of notes from your meeting, a resource list, and concrete next steps.

Standard rate: $350

Community (our discounted) rate: $300

Pay It Forward rate: $400

 

Presence, Guidance, Planning & Connection 

This includes the Presence, Guidance & Planning meeting plus individualized warm-hand-offs to Death Care Collective supports for further care. 

Standard rate: $450

Community (our discounted) rate: $400

Pay It Forward rate: $500

 

What might be discussed in these meetings, written up in care plans, and informing warm hand offs
 

These supports could be for your end of life, a loved one’s end of life, and/or post death tending. Below are some of the areas that may be included in a support plan, carefully considered for each individual situation:

 

• Identifying needs around your or your loved one’s diagnosis and its likely progression

• Plan how to share and/or support sharing the news with loved ones and community

• Provide companionship for family members experiencing a range of different reactions

• Provide companionship for your own feelings, unburdened by worry of scaring or hurting a person you love

• Explore ways to ground and center your body, mind and feelings. This might  include breath work, guided mindfulness, physical movement, sound and body work

• Identify and connect or re-connecting with spiritual practices/philosophical teaching that feel useful to you and your loved ones

• Identify and establish care with mental health professionals

• Get basic end of life paperwork filled out and filed

• Consider how you would like your body to be held in the hours and days following your death and make necessary arrangements

• Consider how you would like your body to reconnect with the earth after your death and make necessary arrangements

• Record memories, write letters, organize photographs or in other ways prepare to pass along the story of your experience

• Consider how you’d like material items to pass into new hands including identifying and connecting with professional support to draw up legal documents

• Identify and procure home mobility aids like rails and walkers, if you aren’t using hospice services which provide them

• Consider physical supports - like food, sleeping arrangements, bedding and clothing, noise levels - feel most supportive/provide help readying them

• Consider who you would like to have present at and after your death and invite them

• Consider any readings, songs or prayers you and your loved ones might like to hear while or after you die

• Invite and facilitate visits from your family and friends

• Facilitate important outings 

• Make food, walk dogs, run errands, and make phone calls

• Sit with you and your family one-on-one or in groups to talk, breath, cry, laugh or be quiet during active dying

• Wash and tend your body with or for your family after death

• Organize and hold an in-home funeral

• Move your body to a funeral home

• Organize and plan memorial ceremonies