The Embrace Blog
Exploring Meaningful End-of-Life Care
At Embrace, we’re here to increase death literacy, answer the questions often get left unasked, and create space for reflection, choice, and connection.
This blog is for individuals seeking a more personal, values-led end-of-life journey - and for professionals ready to move beyond protocol toward truly person-centred care.
Let’s reimagine what dying well can look like, together.
Why do I need a death doula?
What does a death doula do? Explore the emotional, practical, and holistic support they offer, and why this care matters during end‑of‑life transitions.
If you’re curious about what a death doula does, or wondering whether this kind of support might help you or someone you love, you can explore more on my blog. Sometimes understanding your options is the first step toward feeling less alone.
Advance Care Directives- Why They Matter.
Within legal boundaries, there is still room for individuality, for ritual, and for reclaiming practices that honour both the person and the community they lived in.
When Ageing Parents Avoid Planning - How to start the conversation with compassion.
Within legal boundaries, there is still room for individuality, for ritual, and for reclaiming practices that honour both the person and the community they lived in.
The Sandwich Generation:How Gen X Is Holding Together Two Ends of the family Tree
Within legal boundaries, there is still room for individuality, for ritual, and for reclaiming practices that honour both the person and the community they lived in.
Rethinking Death Care.
Within legal boundaries, there is still room for individuality, for ritual, and for reclaiming practices that honour both the person and the community they lived in.
David’s Story.
Everyone is sure I have this under control. Try and get some rest Kellie, they say. I slept really well that night, next to my husbands body.
Can I die at home?
Home-based death care is a deeply personal and empowering model of after-death care, where family and friends take an active role in tending to their loved one.
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