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Sacred Passages with grace

About Jerrigrace

Jerrigrace is a death educator, death midwife, End of LIfe Doula, Reiki Master, and a renowned pioneer of the Home Funeral Movement. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit, Final Passages.org.

How Jerrigrace was called to this work

Jerrigrace felt called to her vocation as a result of the unexpected death of her friend Carolyn Whiting. Because of Carolyn's interest in a natural and conscious approach to death care, she left detailed instructions for her friends to prepare her body at home. Jerrigrace was profoundly moved by this experience and went on to create Final Passages in 1995 to reawaken a choice that our ancestors once held sacred.

Training & Media....

Jerrigrace created a three tiered certificate training program, guided nearly 500 family-led home funerals and taught thousands worldwide. Jerrigrace is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary, "A Family Undertaking", and other media such as The Wall Street Journal USA Today, The New York Times, radio (Coast to Coast), TV, podcasts and many more. Jerrigrace attended the INELDA (International End of LIfe Doula Association) training, and is a member of two MAiD support groups. She presents annually at the International Dealth Doula Training in Hawaii and at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Toronto as well as for a number of national conferences including Hospice, SAND,(Science and Non-Duality), Toronto's 1st International Death Symposium and the City of Hope.