HeartSpeak End-of-Life Companioning
A Compassionate Companion on Life's Final Journey
Services
End-of-Life Doula Services
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Compassionate companioning for the dying person
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Respite and support for the caregiver(s)
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Life review - finding meaning in a life lived
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Legacy projects - leaving a gift, legacy, letters, etc.
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Assistance with Ethical Wills
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Vigil planning - assisting in the design of a personal plan for the final days and hours of life
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Guiding the transition process from life to death and into grief and bereavement
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Advance Care Planning and Directives
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Notary Public for the State of Colorado
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Support for Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) and Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)
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Serve as Professional Healthcare Agent for Solo Agers
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And more...
Grief Support
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Individual Grief Support
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Small Group Grief Support
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Webinars and Seminars on Grief and Bereavement
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Workshops on Grief and Grieving
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And more...
Officiant Services
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Funerals
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Memorials
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Life celebrations
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Weddings
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Commitment ceremonies
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House blessings
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And more...
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.