🌷 marz 🌷Mar 13

Just putting out some feelers -

I'm considering trying to put together a Death Cafe for folks who are disabled, especially those are semi or totally housebound and might not be able to get to one otherwise.

Is there any interest in this? It would be on Zoom, either on a Sunday afternoon or a weekday evening (EDT/UTC-4).

For more on what a Death Cafe is, check here: https://deathcafe.com/what/

Feel free to boost!

#disability #deathcare #stillcoviding

Global News SaskatoonMar 10
The cost of dying in Saskatchewan
Rising costs are hitting many industries, including death care. While death is an inevitable reality, experts say there are affordable options.
#Features #Death #Funeral #Graveyard
https://globalnews.ca/news/11720840/the-cost-of-dying-in-saskatchewan/
Global NewsMar 8
The cost of dying in Saskatchewan
Rising costs are hitting many industries, including death care. While death is an inevitable reality, experts say there are affordable options.
#Features #Death #Funeral #Graveyard
https://globalnews.ca/news/11720840/the-cost-of-dying-in-saskatchewan/
Pomegranate Pirate 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️Feb 13
Sharing an old friend’s gofundme for help with cremation costs. She’s dying, and choosing medically assisted death since what she is going through is fucking brutal. She is broke, her SSI has been discontinued and she’s been through the system’s wringer the last couple of years. I will be there with her and her daughter for that. They need comfort, and I want to witness. Witness as in honor and see, hold space, not turn away. Honor her, her life, what she has gone through. We both had abusive, Muslim ex-husbands. Hers was worse, she and her kids were worse for that in ways you can’t imagine. Neither of us are Muslim anymore. Please, if you can, throw in a few dollars, if not share or boost as you see fit.
Thank you,
Aischa
#death #deathcare #poverty #MS #GBS
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jttjxg-help-terras-family-with-cremation-costs
Donate to Help Terra’s Family with End of Life Costs, organized by Shaima Khadir

My name is Shaima, I am the daughter of Terra Khadir. My mother has been thro… Shaima Khadir needs your support for Help Terra’s Family with End of Life Costs

gofundme.com
LongreadsDec 26

"And we have a lot of people that will also say, 'I want to be a tree,' or, 'I want to plant this tree at my mom’s grave.' We help them get to the place of understanding what it might be to be the whole forest."

John Christian Phifer for Atmos: https://atmos.earth/science-and-nature/giving-our-bodies-back-to-the-earth-the-rise-of-conservation-burial/

#Longreads #Death #Burial #Nature #Restoration #Earth #DeathCare #GreenBurial #NaturalBurial

Giving Our Bodies Back to the Earth: The Rise of Natural Burial | Atmos

What if your body could nourish the land long after you’re gone?

Atmos
Leftover NewsDec 5
Republicans support #Deathcare
DroppieOct 1, 2025
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9077691/nsw-urged-to-legalise-eco-friendly-human-composting-for-dead/

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Fancy being placed in a sealed metal vessel when you're dead with straw, wood chips and alfalfa and rotated for thirty days?

Your body will decompose and non-organic material will be purged.

Decomposition will continue for another month until you become nutrient-rich soil to be returned to the earth to nurture new plant life.

That's what advocates of human composting are proposing in NSW.

They want the practice of turning bodies to soil to be a "meaningful deathcare option" on par with burials or cremation.

Human Composting, also known as Terramation or Natural Organic Reduction (NOR), is currently legal in 13 states in the USA and also in Germany.

A petition to the NSW parliament to recognise, legislate and regulate the practice has accumulated more than 500 signatures since it was launched in August 2025.

One of the lead advocates, Blue Mountains resident Jude Warren, told ACM the practice "offers a meaningful way for individuals to leave a living legacy of environmental regeneration."

Ms Warren said it is carbon neutral.

"Cremation is heavy on fossil fuels, and burial space is limited and expensive, with many toxins leaking into the ground - neither offers environmental death care solutions," she said.

Ms Warren, an end-of-life nurse, admits the practice isn't for everyone.

"We understand that there are certain cultures that believe and value the wish for burial," she said.

"There is an alternative to traditional burial - with a natural burial process, which recognises and combines conserved land and the natural burial process."

In Australia, the only conserved land burial site to date is Walawaani Way Conservation Burial site in Eurobodalla on the NSW South Coast, which is set to open at the end of the year.

A Cemeteries & Crematoria NSW spokesperson told ACM "the NSW Government recognises the need for more land for cemeteries to meet future burial needs, particularly in Greater Sydney".

"Certain faith communities will run out of dedicated burial space in central Sydney within the next two years," the spokesperson said.

"The government understands that composting is an emerging technology in this space, but it is not a legal option in NSW."

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#CarkCityManCarkCity #PostCarkProcessing #HumanComposting #deathcare
Fancy being rotated in alfalfa for 30 days? Human composting new 'deathcare option'

'Cremation and burial are toxic' says advocate.

MediumAug 14, 2025

Jim Parton works in the #DeathCare industry and shares his guide for the living, in our latest Staff Pick:

https://medium.com/the-wind-phone/you-are-dead-what-happens-next-729f4e661186

#Medium #writing #funerals

You Are Dead: What Happens Next?

I’m in the industry and here to share information

Medium
Show threadNonilexAug 13, 2025

IF they qualify [they won’t, not now, in #Trump’s America], young adults can sign up for #Medicaid, the #federal & #state program for #LowIncome Americans, in most but far from all states.

But most buy cheap subpar #HealthInsurance that leaves them w/insurmountable #MedicalDebt following a #medical crisis. Others choose plans w/EXTREMELY limited networks, losing #access to their longtime #doctors & #medicines.

#US #healthcare #eugenics #DeathCare #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #ACA #Obamacare

Show threadNonilexAug 13, 2025

Some, scared off by the complexity of picking a #HealthInsurance policy & by the #PriceTag, tumble over the edge & go without #insurance, in a #health system where the rate for an ER visit can be thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars.

Today, an estimated 15% of 26-year-olds go #uninsured, which, acc/to an analysis by the health research group KFF, is the highest rate among Americans of any age.

#US #healthcare #eugenics #DeathCare #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #ACA #Obamacare