hello there, mortal —
Death comes with enough unknowns. Let’s make the practical parts less surprising.
A grounded local resource for death, dying, and grief in Campbell River and the Comox Valley.
What is deathcare?
Deathcare is bigger than funerals.
Deathcare is everything that surrounds dying, death and grief. It includes the conversations we have before someone dies, the decisions we make, the care we receive, what happens to our bodies, how we say goodbye, and how we live with loss afterward.
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And it involves a whole circle of people, not one profession.
- Help for family and friends
- Hospice and palliative care
- Medical and home care
- Funeral homes and cremation
- Death doulas
- Grief and bereavement
- Celebrants and ceremonies
- Cemeteries and natural burial
- Spiritual and cultural care
- Caregiver and community support
Choose a type of support to explore local services.
Explore the local deathcare directoryA gentle introduction
Deathcare begins long before a death.
Deathcare is not only what happens in the days after someone dies. It is the paperwork you sort out on an ordinary afternoon, the conversation over dinner, the folder your family can actually find. It is knowing what a home funeral can involve, what a green burial asks of you, and which decisions are yours to make.
And Grace Too is a place to learn all of that in good company — without the hush, the hard sell, or the sense that you should already know.
Three ways in
Start wherever feels possible today.
There is no correct order. Most people move between all three — pick the one that is asking for your attention right now.
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Plan Ahead
Put your wishes somewhere findable. Advance directives, representation agreements, the practical checklist — sorted while there is time and no pressure.
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Understand Your Options
Green burial, home funerals, cremation, body donation, ceremony without a funeral home. What each one really involves, and what it asks of the people you love.
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Talk About Death
Bring it to the dinner table. Prompts, scripts and gentle structure for the conversations that make everything afterward kinder and clearer.
Featured — in partnership
A green burial is the most ordinary thing:
going back to the ground.
Green burial skips the chemicals and the hardware and lets a body do what bodies have always done. It is legal, it is local, and it can be beautiful. It also protects the land it happens on.
- No embalming, no concrete vault, no metal casket
- A shrouded or plainly-cased body, returned to living soil
- Land that stays wild — mapped, protected and walkable
And Grace Too teaches the how and the why. For sites, plots and the conservation work itself, we point you to our companion project.
Visit GreenBurialCR.com (opens in a new tab)Courses & workshops
Learn it before you need it.
Small, plain-spoken classes taught with warmth. Take one on its own or work through the set at your own pace.
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Getting Your Affairs in Order
The document-by-document walkthrough: wills, directives, beneficiaries, digital accounts and the one folder that holds it together.
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Green Burial, Start to Finish
What green burial asks of a family, how to arrange one locally, and how to hold a graveside gathering that feels like yours.
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Talking About Death at Home
A facilitated session with prompts and practice, so the conversation happens once — gently — instead of never.
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After a Death: The First Two Weeks
A calm map of what actually has to happen, what can wait, and what you are allowed to do yourselves.
Events & community
Death is better talked about.
Grief groups, Death Cafés, walking groups and caregiver support from hospice societies in Campbell River and the Comox Valley. Free or contact-host, always low-key.
View the full community calendar →
Between gatherings, the community lives in a low-traffic newsletter and a members’ circle — a place to ask the awkward question and get a kind, specific answer.
Join us →About Megan
I do this work because it kept being done badly around me.
I’m a death educator and end-of-life doula on Vancouver Island. I came to it the way most people do — through a death in my own life that was harder than it needed to be, mostly because nobody had said the practical things out loud.
And Grace Too is my attempt to say them: in plain language, with humour where humour fits, and without pretending there is one right way. I teach the courses, host the gatherings, and work alongside the team at GreenBurialCR on conservation burial in the region.
— Megan
The mailing list
A letter you’ll actually want to open.
Once or twice a month: new course dates, upcoming gatherings, and one small, useful thing to think about or tidy up. No spam, no doom, easy to leave.
and so —
I believe we can meet mortality with curiosity, honesty, care and grace too.