Kefi: End-Of-Life Doula

27/02/2026

A Columbarium is the word I was looking for yesterday, just beautiful 🙂
Today my travels didn’t take me anywhere Death, dying or grief related but it did take me to thinking about life 🙂
I sat enjoying lunch with the sun shining down, families playing ball on the grass, couples walking around chitter chattering, groups of friends sat on tables enjoying their lunches, aging people enjoying sometimes pottering around the gardens and smelling the plants, kiddies crying & laughing…

I sat happy, content & grateful 🙂

This was in a space that has been created to bring all ages together, created as a place for all generations to enjoy, share and just be.

Sometimes we have to create this in our own world & lives dont you think?

I could feel so much thought had gone into this place, the intention behind it.

We have to live with intention, true intention or else time just passes us by 🙂
Love how a space can allow you to see, hear & feel so much just by being 🩷🩷

Jen x

26/02/2026

Ohh what do I have to share today…

Firstly I went to a wonderful Buddhist meditation centre to enjoy a meditation while there I asked if I could have a look around and they gladly walked me around and while in the remembrance chapel (she did give a special name, I will be googling this as it was beautiful) she allowed me to take pics and and a family was there placing their daughters ashes in there and asked me to photograph the things that they had chosen to be with her forever… such a special moment in time and one I feel I will cherish forever 🩷

I then met with a funeral director from the oldest largest funeral home in Dallas and it was big business…
Eye opening doesn’t come close, again amazing humans who guided me around…
3 facts to share: over 90% of their guests are embalmed. Dying is expensive with the average basic funeral being around $9k, they have carried out zero shroudings.

So again, another wonderful day filling my cup and I am going to enjoy writing up all my notes tonight as so so so much swirling around this little brain he he

I have loved exploring this side of Dallas 🙂

Jen x

25/02/2026

This morning I had the pleasure of visiting one of the oldest cemeteries in Dallas…

The energy felt old but so good 🙂

It was a special place and I was truly grateful for my time to look around.

I sat for a while in appreciation of all the peoples final resting place I was visiting.

I left with a sense of joy which was beautiful 🙂

Then, this afternoon I visited a wonderful chapel in the centre of Dallas. I met a wonderful human in there & we spoke around how cremation which was rare is now around 50% in Dallas and how religion over here is still very prominant in death. It was a beautiful hour and again forever grateful for the openness & honesty of people I meet 🙂

I’m looking forward to what will bring 🙂

Who else loves exploring other countries death industry/literacy/views/traditions?

Jen x

20/02/2026

Lucky me, I will be hanging out herr today 🙂
Pop in or stay all day.
It’s going to be a truly wonderful festival in the most beautiful space 🙂

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19/02/2026

Ohh this is something we discuss many times in the Death Cafes with a few wonderful human choosing this for their or their families end of life.

Knowing it is a viable choice is everything :)

As always education = choice and choice = choosing from a place of heart :)

Book in & listen to the amazing Jeff & Luke speak about something they are both passionate about and about an option for end of life everyone should know about.

Smiles, Jen x

We are opening 2026 with a panel discussion to give the public the opportunity to hear and ask some questions about the different offerings of...

18/02/2026

Coming out of 2 Death Cafes today with a heart full of gratitude to being able to share, educate & hold space and then to watch this…

My cup is full and Carly Dalton what a fabulous conversation you & lisa had 🩷🩷

Keep shining your light and thank you xx

Melbourne funeral director Carly Dalton says around 60% of families have no idea what their loved one wanted. She says she sees families "in a world of pain"...

17/02/2026

The gift of life & death and the moments of goodbye xx

The day before Nigel accessed Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) his partner, Kath, and family held a combined living wake and 51st birthday party — involving KFC, cake and many phone calls.
"It was very relaxed and casual ... We didn't ever pressure anybody that they had to come and see him," Kath says.
"People just dropped around to give him a hug, talk to him, tell stories, make memories ... He was exhausted by the end, but he said he was it was all worth it."
Read the full story on SBS (link in comments)

17/02/2026

I have 2 Death Cafes tomorrow 🙂

Hastings 10-11am &
Frankston 1-2:30pm

So exciting to be starting the Death Cafe movement for 2026.

This is 5yrs since the first online Death Cafe through Covid and over 3yrs since our first in-person Cafe.

Every cafe brings different conversations but it always brings connection, openness, awareness, education, increased death literacy and that feeling of “I better get my end of life things in order so I can enjoy living to the full”.

Death Cafes are agenda-free & full of respectful discussions about mortality.

This leads (from what i see, participants tell me & feel) to improved attitudes toward death & dying, decreased death anxiety & reduced fear, enhanced comfort with end-of-life conversations and planning actually done & not just in the “ohh we should that” conversation 🙂.

In the cafes you see connections being made, laughter and smiles being shared & that sense of actually none of us are getting out of life alive so let’s explore that and support each other.

So whether you are 20 and just moving out of home or 100 and living in an assisted home you are all welcome to come along, share cake, a cuppa & a conversation.

We are all alive right now so we all have the chance to educate, connect and communicate end of life 🩷

Smiles, Jen x

12/02/2026

I love being able to meet clients who become friends and enjoy this view 🩷🩷

Nature really does give us the space to breathe, explore & sit in those hard conversations…

Don’t forget to step out into nature today, Jen x