Natural Death Care FAQs

There are many myths and misconceptions around natural death care and doing death well. What people can and can’t do.

To begin to open up your awareness, here are just a few things that in some states and territories are legal.

In Byron Bay over the past 25 years we have created a more natural healthier death-style, either for expected death or in sudden death. With the correct information you can have a more whole, satisfying experience. Knowing what is possible especially between death and the burial or cremation, choosing to care for the body yourselves after death, creating a meaningful and healing ceremony, all lead to a healthier bereavement.

For example, did you know

• The best thing you can do while you are alive and in good health is to complete an Advance Health Care Directive/Plan, an Enduring guardianship, an Enduring Power of Attorney and make a valid Will.
• The next best thing is to discuss these with family and friends, Family doesn’t just mean by blood, it can be your chosen family so they know what is acceptable and not acceptable to you.
• Plan what you want for your own cremation, burial and funeral.
• Wash and dress the body yourselves.
• Keep or take the body home.
• Build your own coffin.
• Transport the coffin and body in your own vehicle.
• Bury on private land.
• ‘Do It Yourself’, so someone can go from the bed to grave or the cremator, without the need for a funeral director at all.
• Bury in a cardboard coffin or a shroud.
• However, you CAN NOT cremate on a bonfire on private land or at the beach. (Not yet anyway).