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Walking Towards A Good Death
—An Invitation for Internal Preparation
REPLAY of Q&A Session with Mary & Lee from 2.8.23 and 10.13.22
If you’d like a copy of the recording, please give us your info and we will email you the link.
Mary Lane
Mary Lane is an elder who has walked the archetypal journey through the healing of our connection and relationship with the natural world. She has spent the last 40 years integrating and distilling the wisdom from her lifelong experiences, trainings, and deepening connection with Mother Earth. She supports others to embrace the never ending life and death cycle of nature, so they too can benefit from this Divine intelligence of nature as a masterful teacher, to let go of the old and birth the new, through both life, and death.
Mary has trained with Hospice, taught two years at the Doorway Into Light Conference on death and dying, on the island of Maui, and sat by the bedside of those going through the ultimate letting go of a lifetime. She learned that letting go needs to start long before we are on our deathbed. And, the ultimate teacher is nature.
If you would like to know more about what Mary offers visit her web site. www.divinenourishment.net
Lee Warren
Lee Warren has been fortunate to learn from the dying in the context of a village. Over the course of two years, from 2016 to 2018, there were six deaths at Earthaven Ecovillage, the place she’s called home for more than two decades.
Those deaths, and the generous people who experienced them, were incredible opportunities for service to the great mystery. From end-of-life paperwork preparation, to working with hospice and sitting with the dying, to collaborating with blood families on all aspects of the death process, to tending our beloveds for after death services, to creating home wakes, home funerals, and home burials, the village came alive with cooperation and the magic of synchronized flow.
These end-of-life ceremonies and rituals weave together the fabric of community, which gives meaning to every aspect of the death process. People, both from within and from outside the village, expressed how life-changing and heart-expansive these experiences were for them.
What Lee learned during this sacred time is the following:
- Death is a gift for all involved.
- We have everything we need internally for a good death.
- Conscious and positive death experiences are possible.
- Preparing in advance, both internally and externally, makes a good death more possible.
- A village context is by far the best way to depart. So let’s build the village. Everywhere.
- Tending to the dying creates a bond with the whole in a way that nothing else does.
Lee has woven end-of-life education into her community building work as foundation to becoming alive, present, and embodied humans.
Death is Only a Door
“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there, the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies all manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source. Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.”
-Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear
