Amy Shelf - Counselor at Law
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Midwifery, birth and death.

7/23/2009

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I was nearly finished with a piece about midwifery.  It started with a link to this article about home funerals and death midwives.  I find the whole thing totally cool, and an inspiring intersection of my work and a part of me that has not been my work but maybe should be.

In the piece I shared some intensely personal things, so the fact that the whole thing just got erased and disappeared I'm taking to be an indicator that I'm not ready to share all that stuff with the 7 people who read this regularly. 

But I did want to share the article and to state, for the record, that I would like a home funeral, if possible, and I would like my family (in the most inclusive sense to the word) to have the opportunity to touch my dead body without doctors or chemicals. 

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Chloe Ohme
7/23/2009 08:38:34 pm

Hey Amy, I'm with you on the green funeral. I know there is a movement to certify green burial cemetaries in the US. Do you know anything about the politics around this? And are there any green cemetaries in the Bay Area?
Cheers,
Chloe

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lori falchi
7/23/2009 10:35:05 pm

Thanks for posting this. I think this sounds like the way I want to go. Simply. Not necessarily with a tuft of sheep's wool.

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jamie
7/24/2009 03:08:24 am

defintely the home thing is amazing -we had that with tom and it was one of the most intense visceral experiences i have ever had - kind of like birth for sure - after mine i want a viking burial at sea please

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Heidi
7/24/2009 10:05:53 am

I'm sad you lost your post to the ethers.
I would like to read it if you ever reconstruct it. Or perhaps a walk to talk as I have just finished a class project writing a month long preschool curriculum exploring death.

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