Sacred Crossings offers personalized and
cost-effective alternatives to current funeral practices.

Services include:

• Home Funeral Planning. We assist individuals and families in the planning of personalized and deeply meaningful funerals at home.

• Assistance with preparation and preservation of the body for lying-in-honor, viewing or ceremony. This includes bathing, anointing and dressing of the body.

• Preparation of personalized funeral rites / rituals.

• Near-death prayer / meditation vigils, as well as grief support. • Delivery of a simple casket to the home. Assisting family members and friends with the decoration and consecration of the casket. • Accompaniment of a family member or an assigned "Advanced Health Care" agent to the doctor's office, Office of Vital Records, and crematorium or cemetary. • Assistance with transportation of the body from the home to the place of disposition.

• Assistance with completing and filing required documentation (Death Certificate, Permit for Disposition, Authorization for Cremation).

EDUCATION

Classes, workshops and presentations are available for individuals and organizations. The following is a sample of classes we have offered:

• What is a Home Funeral? Your legal and personal rights. How to create your
own Funeral at Home.

• The American Way of Death: A look at the history of funerals in America, including a discussion concerning the American culture's fear and denial around death.

• The Importance of Ritual: A look at the use of ritual in after-death care for families and friends.

Please call 310/968-2763 for information about upcoming classes and seminars.

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides,
that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"
- Kahlil Gibran