Nina de Cocq, EOLD, RMT

11/03/2025

10/23/2025

Melissa Meadow offers death doula services, funeral consulting, and green burial education to help individuals and families navigate end-of-life with confidence.

10/14/2025

10/08/2025

10/08/2025

Grief is the price we pay for daring to love in these temporary bodies, and it's the most brutal, beautiful work a heart can do.

Death gets to be peaceful, even sacred. But grief? Grief is the wild, messy aftermath where you have to keep breathing even though part of your soul left with them.

If you're drowning in it right now, know that the depth of your grief is proof of how fiercely you loved. And that kind of love echoes beyond any threshold.

You're doing the hardest thing a soul ever does. And you're doing it because you were brave enough to love someone all the way to the edge. 🖤

10/08/2025

🌿 The Truth About the $2500 Mushroom Burial Suit 🍄

Pictured here is the real mushroom burial shroud, photographed at Eloise Woods in Austin, Texas, October 2016.

When the “mushroom suit” first went viral, people thought it was the future of green burial, a magical shroud that would eat away toxins and return the body to the earth faster and cleaner than ever.

But here’s the truth: there’s no scientific evidence that it actually does what was promised. The fabric was infused with kitchen lab-grown mycelium, but when tested, it didn’t perform any better than a regular cotton shroud. In fact, the founder quietly admitted the mushrooms never grew on the bodies as marketed.

Meanwhile, real green burial, no embalming, no vault, biodegradable shroud or casket, has been working beautifully for generations. The earth doesn’t need gimmicks to reclaim us.

If you want to become “one with the earth,” you don’t need a $2,500 suit. You just need a simple, natural burial.

Let’s stop selling people fantasy and start teaching them reality. 🌎 PS... Still a beautiful and heart centered burial, despite the hoopla shroud of shrooms 🍄

. Photo October 2016

09/19/2025

This is so worth the time. A very moving account. She addresses the very essence of our humanity in the face of the death of someone we love.

09/12/2025

08/29/2025

Read the full post at https://karenwyattmd.substack.com/p/what-death-doulas-offer-at-the-end