Sacred Dying - Embracing the End of Life

10/11/2025

07/11/2025

Let's talk about something we don't discuss enough: what happens to our bodies after death. Our new article breaks down the natural decomposition process and explains how aquamation works with nature, not against it. Knowledge is power—even about the end.

@meia_mb Death Doulas of Manitoba

04/11/2025

🖤BREAKING NEWS🖤 Sacred Dying - Embracing the End of Life is pleased to announce a DEATH AWARENESS conference scheduled for mid/late 2026. Interested parties are invited to apply as guest speakers for the first-ever Death Doula conference in Gauteng by emailing sacreddyingsa@gmail.com. We welcome your participation. Sacred Dying - Embracing the End of Life

04/11/2025

Excellent read 👌🖤

03/11/2025

Relearning How to Die

Somewhere along the way, we handed death over to institutions.
We moved funerals out of our homes, placed our dying in sterile rooms, and silenced the natural rituals of grief that once bound communities together.

When death left the home, it also left the sacred.
The dying became patients, the body became a case, and the threshold between worlds became fluorescently lit.
The mystery and awe were sterilized and we began to distract ourselves with the illusion that we have time.

We didn’t just lose our ancestral customs we lost a way of belonging.
Once, neighbours gathered to wash the body, cook meals, and sit through the night sharing stories. Children learned what endings meant, not through fear, but through presence. Grief was shared, not hidden.

When we relearn how to die, we also remember how to live more deeply, more authentically, and more connected to each other.
Because death, when brought back into the home, becomes what it always was meant to be: a sacred teacher of love, community, and impermanence.

It’s time to return to the old ways not out of nostalgia, but out of necessity.
To hold each other again, in both life and in death.

Genevieve Matthews🖤
Sacred Dying EOL Doula and Grief Guide

01/11/2025

This grief is real 💙

No one warns you about this one.
The relief.
The quiet, guilty breath you take after the person you love finally stops suffering.

It’s not joy. It’s not peace.
It’s something tangled in between — and it messes with your head.
Because you’re grateful their pain is gone, but you hate yourself for feeling even a second of relief.
You think, what kind of person feels better when the worst thing that could happen actually happens?

You did.
You loved them so damn much that watching them suffer became its own kind of torture.
You were grieving long before the end.
You were breaking every day they stayed in pain.

Relief doesn’t mean you wanted them gone.
It means you couldn’t bear what life was doing to them anymore.
It means you were human—watching someone you love suffer and wishing for peace, even when peace meant goodbye.

That’s the part no one warns you about.
How love can feel like both heartbreak and release in the same breath.
How you can cry because they’re gone and still feel grateful they’re free.

It doesn’t make you cold.
It makes you real.
It makes you someone who loved enough to know when enough pain was enough.

01/11/2025

Death, dying, loss and care is everyone's responsibility.

What does a compassionate community look like to you?

What is one small way you can show up for someone in your community this week?

Care does not begin or end in hospitals. It lives in our homes, streets, workplaces, schools, and hearts.

Whether through grief support, end-of-life care, or simply showing up for someone in need, compassionate communities help us to navigate life’s most vulnerable moments with empathy, dignity, and connection.

And to those working to build networks of kindness and practical support, thank you.

Your efforts are transforming how we live, die, and care. We see you.

Together we keep growing this movement.

01/11/2025

This is so precious 💞

01/11/2025

Remembering all our loved ones that are no longer with us as we approach the festive season.

01/11/2025

Annelize de Bruyn congratulations, you have increased our followers to 1200!

Please WhatsApp us on 0764016844, we have a small surprise for you.

Thank you to all of you that follow us.

We appreciate every one of you 💙

01/11/2025

Our deceased loved ones live on with us in so many ways. Mona Minnaar Genevieve Matthews fans