Aileen Stewart, a deathcare guide in Kingston, told The Journal she got into the business of deathcare through her daughter, who was training to be a midwife at the time.
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Publishing date: Feb 27, 2021 • February 27, 2021 • 3 minute read
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DAVID LYON
Birth and death bookend our lives. Natural births have become much more widespread in recent decades, and more people are seeking home birth during the pandemic. At the same time, there’s rising interest in more natural death-care practices, including green burial. Kingston is one of several communities in Ontario where people are seeking to care not only for our bodies at death, but also for the earth to which we return.
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