Return To Source CIC

20/01/2025

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Linktree makes room for all of you. Get everything you create, curate and share, wherever it’s scattered online, and put it back together again in one place – your Linktree – where it can be discovered with ease.

17/10/2024

25/09/2024

It’s a big day for us today, I’ve just filed our first Confirmation Statement!! An essential requirement for being a CIC.
Next week I will be working on the accounts and report ( they don’t have to be until June but I don’t want to leave it until then so the sooner they are done the happier I will be.)
We are classed as a dormant business at this time because we are not bringing in an income, but we are active behind the scenes, networking, planting and raising trees in pots ( until we acquire the land for this venture.)
As an off shoot to the business as part of our services we will be offering in the future I am developing grief focussed work shops that I will be launching and facilitating next year.
We still need land/funds for land - I have seen 7.5 acres for sale but require £200,000.00 which we don’t have at this time. If 200 of you would like to invest in this in return for a burial plot please get in touch!

11/09/2024

Needle felted design on wet felted coffin cover.

06/09/2024

Burial shrouds, urns, keepsake pots, shrines, tiles and more

03/09/2024

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-grief/202311/terminal-lucidity-and-the-near-death-experience? =_

The exploration of the mysteries surrounding the deathbed continues.

31/08/2024

Next weekend at we will be open for the it would be great to see you.

23/07/2024

How much would you be prepared to pay for a memorial tree, that would be planted in memory of a lost loved one?

06/06/2024

informed choices are so important

You can have your dead person at home for a few days after their death if you wish. If they died at home, they can stay there for a while until you are ready. If they died elsewhere, they can come home. You do not need to send your person off to a funeral director (if using one at all) straight away if you don’t want to. All of these things are doable and most importantly, legal. If the death was expected and has been verified, you can do whatever you like with your person after death as regards care of the body and where they go 🙏🏼

Realistically, you can keep a dead person at home for a few days, possibly a week but that might be pushing it, especially in the warmer weather. This is because of the natural decomposition of the body. It also depends on the physical state of the body when they died, if they have any wounds etc and the tools you can create/have access to make it happen.

The essential things to consider and put in place are….
- closing the mouth of your person. You may need to use something to do this like elastic around the head or towels placed under the chin.
- possibly blocking other orifices if planning on keeping the body for more than a few days.
- keeping the torso cold. You can do this using ice packs/frozen bottles of water/any frozen foods (I have used fish fingers and peas before) These would sit under arms, in between legs and around the chest/stomach/neck
- keeping windows closed (flies/bugs)
- keeping the room as cool as possible
- keeping the body flat

Some funeral directors will have equipment such as cooling blankets/ice packs to help. Some have cuddle cots for babies. Find out if anyone local to you has these facilities available. You can also get support to do this from someone like myself 🙏🏼❤️

It is more common than you may realise. Some people just need a day or night, just a bit more time before they let their person go. Some do it for religious ritual reasons. Some folks I have supported have put it in their death plan that they want stay at home, or go home after they die before they go to the funeral directors. All of this is legal. And it is important we all know we have choices and options ❤️

06/06/2024

Hydration is important…..when we are well.

A dying body cannot hydrate itself. An IV drip will not do what you think, the fluid will not be processed by the body in the way that you hope. Because the body is starting to shut down and stop. The water/fluids will not go to the dry parts, it will not hydrate the skin. Water will not provide energy. Fluids can clog up the dying process. A dying body’s internal systems are not working effectively or productively. Forcing fluids can cause more harm than good.

You cannot hydrate a dying body the same way that no amount of petrol will fix an old car and stay in its rusty petrol tank.

Our bodies are instinctive and know how to die and needing less fluid and food is a big part of it. The body will naturally start to dehydrate itself as part of the dying process.

If someone is dying and wants a drink, if they can swallow it safely and are not coughing/chocking, are alert and awake enough and are sitting up enough, then by all means, slowly and tentatively offer small sips of fluid. But if not, the body is too weak and does not need it.

A dry mouth needs mouth care and lip balm, not a drink. Mouth care can be much more supportive and soothing.

It’s ok if you poorly person is eating and drinking a lot less, it’s all part of the process ❤️

26/05/2024

Bereaved father wins change to parental leave law in three UK nations

After his wife died in childbirth, Aaron Horsey found he did not have automatic right to paternity leave

15/05/2024

Hello, I am one of the directors of Return To Source CIC and thought I would share my Studio page with you, I work as a multimedia artist and Forest School leader aswell.

02/05/2024

Keepsake pots and altars

29/04/2024

Urns I’ve made for cremated remains, full size and keepsake boxes along with 2 altars. All are one off pieces, handsculpted by myself KarenChardArtist.