Rev. Olivia Bareham, a certified death midwife, home funeral guide and celebrant with degrees in Education, Natural Theology and Sacred Healing, is founder of Sacred Crossings—The Institute for Conscious Dying and Home Funerals in Los Angeles. She has 12+ years’ experience guiding hundreds of families in the art of conscious dying and home-based after-death care and recently launched an alternative funeral home owned and operated entirely by death midwives offering natural, sacred alternatives to traditional funeral home practices. Olivia also facilitates a certificate training program, ‘The Art of Death Midwifery,’ now offered to students worldwide.