What Services do we provide?
When a doctor has given a patient less than six month to live, most patients want to spend their final days at home with family and friends. Hospice is usually recommended. There are a lot of choices when it comes to hospice and Creating Honoring Spaces can help families to find a hospice that fits their needs. Because hospice doesn't provide 24/7 support, Trina can also help clients to find additional medical and non-medical care.
Creating Honoring Spaces can educate clients about alternative dying options---options other than simply letting the disease run its course. These alternatives often give the person who is dying a sense of control over the kind of ending they want. It allows them to tie up any loose ends and do and say anything they want to do and say. Accelerating one's own death when a person is suffering with a debilitating, life limiting disease is legal in California and in many other states in the U.S. We can discuss these options with clients.
When a person is dying, the family is often overwhelmed. Those outside of the family want to help but they’re not sure what to do. We can help the family set up a free, CaringBridge account on the web to communicate the condition of the person who is dying along with their express interests regarding visits. CaringBridge is an non-profit organization that allows the family to post all of this information in one place for their community so they can focus their attention on their loved one.
When death is imminent, Creating Honoring Spaces can help a family find a funeral home to take care of the loved one's body after they die. Or, we can help plan and guide a family through their own, home vigil and family created, at-home service.
If you've never considered taking care of your loved ones body at home after death, Creating Honoring Spaces encourages you to consider doing so. Especially if you've been intimately involved in their care before they died. It is possible and we can help by guiding you through the process. We believe that taking care of your loved one's body in the hours or days after death can be healing and transformative and can help to navigate the grieving process.
To clear up any confusion, bodies don't have to be immediately removed after death has occured at home. Similarly, when death occurs in a hospital or other care facility, the family can have their person transported home to shelter them with proper cooling measures for a few hours or even for several days. Whether or not the person died at home or in a care facility and was transported back home, the family can shelter, bathe, dress or shroud and cool the body and the team at Creating Honoring Spaces can guide families through the process. Families have the legal right and opportunity to offer this final act of lovingkindness to their loved one.
Clients and their families can also choose between a traditional burial or a natural (green) burial With a green burial, the body is placed in an all natural container (i.e., wood, wicker, corrugated casket or a natural burial shroud) in the ground w/out concrete or plastic vaults. Families usually lower their loved ones body in the ground with a private and intimate, graveside service. Creating Honoring Spaces can help families by guiding them through these options.
If bringing family and friends in for a funeral is difficult, a virtual memorial service may be a good option. Those who are technologically savvy can create their own, or we can help you find companies who specialize in this service. A hybrid approach could even be used with some in the presence of the deceased while others at a distance can be brought a little bit closer using video conferencing technology.
Natural, participative death care options have the potential to positively transform the end-of-life experience. Family and friends have more time with their person and they have something meaningful and constructive to do as they honor their loved one and begin to process their grief. So, when a death occurs in your family or circle of friends, contact Creating Honoring Spaces to discuss and guide you through the best options for you.
Creating Honoring Spaces can educate clients about alternative dying options---options other than simply letting the disease run its course. These alternatives often give the person who is dying a sense of control over the kind of ending they want. It allows them to tie up any loose ends and do and say anything they want to do and say. Accelerating one's own death when a person is suffering with a debilitating, life limiting disease is legal in California and in many other states in the U.S. We can discuss these options with clients.
When a person is dying, the family is often overwhelmed. Those outside of the family want to help but they’re not sure what to do. We can help the family set up a free, CaringBridge account on the web to communicate the condition of the person who is dying along with their express interests regarding visits. CaringBridge is an non-profit organization that allows the family to post all of this information in one place for their community so they can focus their attention on their loved one.
When death is imminent, Creating Honoring Spaces can help a family find a funeral home to take care of the loved one's body after they die. Or, we can help plan and guide a family through their own, home vigil and family created, at-home service.
If you've never considered taking care of your loved ones body at home after death, Creating Honoring Spaces encourages you to consider doing so. Especially if you've been intimately involved in their care before they died. It is possible and we can help by guiding you through the process. We believe that taking care of your loved one's body in the hours or days after death can be healing and transformative and can help to navigate the grieving process.
To clear up any confusion, bodies don't have to be immediately removed after death has occured at home. Similarly, when death occurs in a hospital or other care facility, the family can have their person transported home to shelter them with proper cooling measures for a few hours or even for several days. Whether or not the person died at home or in a care facility and was transported back home, the family can shelter, bathe, dress or shroud and cool the body and the team at Creating Honoring Spaces can guide families through the process. Families have the legal right and opportunity to offer this final act of lovingkindness to their loved one.
Clients and their families can also choose between a traditional burial or a natural (green) burial With a green burial, the body is placed in an all natural container (i.e., wood, wicker, corrugated casket or a natural burial shroud) in the ground w/out concrete or plastic vaults. Families usually lower their loved ones body in the ground with a private and intimate, graveside service. Creating Honoring Spaces can help families by guiding them through these options.
If bringing family and friends in for a funeral is difficult, a virtual memorial service may be a good option. Those who are technologically savvy can create their own, or we can help you find companies who specialize in this service. A hybrid approach could even be used with some in the presence of the deceased while others at a distance can be brought a little bit closer using video conferencing technology.
Natural, participative death care options have the potential to positively transform the end-of-life experience. Family and friends have more time with their person and they have something meaningful and constructive to do as they honor their loved one and begin to process their grief. So, when a death occurs in your family or circle of friends, contact Creating Honoring Spaces to discuss and guide you through the best options for you.
Payment for Services.
Creating Honoring Spaces charges an hourly rate of $85 per hour. Clients can decide how much time or how little they need after a free, initial 30-minute, phone or video call conversation. After that, we can decide if it makes sense to work together. We don't want our fees to be an obstacle to customers getting the services they desire. We're happy to refer out to others who provide a different kind of service or expertise if we can't help. We collaborate with many others who provide similar services.
Our biggest criticism of funeral homes is the way they package their services making it difficult to determine what you're getting. In the U.S. the Federal Trade Commission requires that funeral homes quote a basic service fee in an opening paragraph of their General Price Lists. We've found these fees to be vague, confusing, and therefore difficult to compare. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the basic service fee ranges from $525 to $4600 for similar services. And, this doesn't include: funeral services, caskets, urns, cremation, burial sites, headstones, etc. It would be easy to spend $10,000 for a traditional funeral if that is what a person wants. However, not everyone wants this nor can they afford this so we'd like to guide and educate consumers about how they can get more involved in sheltering and honoring their person to mitigate unnecessary expenses as they begin the process of grieving the loss of a loved one.
Our biggest criticism of funeral homes is the way they package their services making it difficult to determine what you're getting. In the U.S. the Federal Trade Commission requires that funeral homes quote a basic service fee in an opening paragraph of their General Price Lists. We've found these fees to be vague, confusing, and therefore difficult to compare. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the basic service fee ranges from $525 to $4600 for similar services. And, this doesn't include: funeral services, caskets, urns, cremation, burial sites, headstones, etc. It would be easy to spend $10,000 for a traditional funeral if that is what a person wants. However, not everyone wants this nor can they afford this so we'd like to guide and educate consumers about how they can get more involved in sheltering and honoring their person to mitigate unnecessary expenses as they begin the process of grieving the loss of a loved one.