I am studying to be a final trasition (death) midwife and I currently work for a funeral service transporting deceased people.

It’s a thankless job that pays between
$9 and $10 per hour in the city of Portland, OR. It also exposes us to potentially dangerous bodily fluids and situations.

We remove dead people from their homes,
apartments, hospitals, adult foster homes, assisted living and nursing home facilities, railroad tracks, sidewalks, river banks, car crashes and the list goes on.

We deal with natural deaths, diseases,
suicides involving hangings and gunshots
to the head and chest, overdoses as well as decomposed deaths from one week to months!

We deal with men, women, children, infants and the elderly.

From my own personal experience, I can honestly say that all these bodies represent to the funeral directors is:
$$$! All they care about is how many bodies they can get to fill up their coolers. Sad but true.

Let’s bring home burials back the way home births made a come back. My two children were born at home with a veteran midwife in the late 80′s and I wouldn’t change that experience for the world. It was AWESOME!

Families deserve the same option in death. There should be dignity, respect and uninterrupted family involvement in the final transition from
this world to the Spirit realm.

This trend is already being implemented
in the UK.

Thank you again for your informative article.

Ms. Selassie-Aird