End-of-Life Doula Support
Compassionate, practical companionship for individuals and families approaching death ~ through planning, dying, and what comes after.
Death is one of the few certainties we share, yet most of us arrive at it unprepared and unsure how to talk about it. As a trained end-of-life doula, Megan accompanies individuals, families and communities through this tender threshold ~ making space to talk openly about dying, helping put wishes and plans in order, and bringing ritual into the grief that comes before and after a loss.
This is not the same as hiring a celebrant. A celebrant is booked for a day. A doula walks alongside you across a series of conversations ~ in the planning, and in the months that follow.
Ways Megan can support you
Conversations
Death Cafes, family conversations, community gatherings, and one-to-one talks about mortality ~ for people who want to get comfortable with the subject before they are forced to be. Often the first time a family has said any of it out loud.
Planning
Advance care plans, representation agreements, and the documents that carry your wishes ~ alongside the funeral or ceremony you would want, your legacy projects, and the feelings that surface while you sort it all out.
Presence
Being there in the hours that matter. Support through a MAiD provision, bedside vigils, rituals for the room, and steadying for the people keeping watch ~ shaped entirely around what the person dying and their family want.
Walking Alongside
Ritual for the grief that arrives before a death and the grief that stays long after ~ anticipatory loss, death anniversaries, and the months when everyone else has moved on and you have not.
How it works
1 ~ Before
We begin with a conversation about where you are and what you are facing ~ a diagnosis, a plan you have been avoiding, or a loss you are carrying. There is no set curriculum. Megan shapes the work around what you actually need.
2 ~ During
We meet at a pace that suits you, virtually or in person on the North Shore. Megan brings the questions, the structure and the rituals; you bring your story. Family members are welcome in the room whenever it helps.
3 ~ After
You leave able to speak about death without flinching, clear on what you want and how to ask for it, with rituals to reach for when the next hard thing comes. What felt unapproachable becomes yours to face on your own terms.
Ways to work together
Death Conversations ~ $350
Where it begins.
Two hours, for you, your family, or a community group, to talk openly about death, dying, and what you want for the end of your life. Virtual, or in person on the North Shore. Ideal when nothing is urgent but you are ready to start.
Advance Planning ~ $595
Your wishes collected.
Three sessions and a completed plan: your values, your documents, your care and disposition preferences, the funeral or ceremony you would want, and a legacy piece ~ consolidated into one place, ready for whoever needs it.
Grief Support ~ $1,500
Walking alongside you.
Six sessions across three months, bringing ritual into your grief ~ in the lead-up to an anticipated loss, or in the months after one. Ideal when grief needs somewhere to go and the people around you have moved on.
Support through a MAiD provision or a bedside vigil is shaped around your timeline and quoted individually. Outside these packages, Megan's hourly rate is $175.
Megan is a non-medical practitioner. Decisions about treatment, care and MAiD eligibility rest with your medical team.
Prices are in CAD for Canadian clients and USD for international clients. Be Ceremonial members receive 10%. Support on the North Shore is included; travel beyond is quoted separately. A payment plan can be arranged.
Living funerals, memorials and celebrations of life are held as Celebrant Services ~ Megan designs and convenes the ceremony itself, from $1,500.
New to these conversations? The Death Talk is available on demand in the Ceremony School.
You don't have to navigate this alone
Whether death is near or you're simply ready to start the conversation, reach out.