Available Services

Death Care, Bereavement Support & Taíno Ritual Design

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Death care, at its best, is an act of love.
I provide inclusive, compassionate services for individuals, families, and communities navigating grief, dying, and remembrance — with a focus on those too often forgotten by the traditional death care system: Two-Spirit and TGNC people, victims of queer or racialized violence, those living with rare diseases or disabilities, and the economically underserved.

With years of experience in funeral homes, volunteer bereavement work and doulaship, I understand how grief moves — quietly, fiercely, differently for everyone. My goal is to create a space where all lives and losses are met with dignity, accuracy, and care. When appropriate, I also incorporate deathcare relating to Taino culture, for fellow Natives in grief.

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Services Offered

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End-of-Life & Bereavement Support

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• Hospice counseling and emotional support for patients and families

• Bereavement counseling and grief processing for individuals or small groups

• Legacy planning and life review for those preparing for death

• Guidance in navigating loss related to identity, trauma, or medical discrimination

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Death Care & Memorial Services

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• Licensed cremator offering technical and spiritual guidance through cremation processes

• Obituary writing and storytelling that honors each life fully and truthfully

• Vigil and memorial planning, including culturally-rooted and identity-affirming ceremonies

• Advocacy to ensure correct naming, pronouns, and representation after death

• Support for home funerals, green burials, and family-led rites

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Doula & Transitional Care Services

As a death doula, I assist with the emotional, logistical, and spiritual needs that arise before and after death, including:

• Creating advance care plans and ethical wills

• Coordinating between families, hospice, and funeral professionals

• Comfort presence and non-medical bedside support

• Holding vigil at time of death

• Helping families and caregivers process guilt, anger, and release

• Offering creative rituals and personalized practices for healing and remembrance

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Culturally Rooted Practice: Taíno Traditions

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Hailing from Ponce, Puerto Rico, I carry my Afro-Taíno heritage into every aspect of my death care work. Taíno cosmology teaches that death is not an erasure but a return to the great spiral of existence — a reunion with ancestors, land, and memory.

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I incorporate these Indigenous understandings into modern death care by:

• Invoking Taíno symbols and language in personalized rituals and vigils

• Using elements like water, smoke, song, and earth in cleansing or farewell rites

• Honoring the spirit’s journey through offerings, ancestral invocation, and community remembrance

• Guiding families in reconnecting with their own cultural grief traditions

• Affirming that every act of mourning can also be an act of reclamation and belonging

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Through this lens, I blend professional mortuary experience with the sacred — creating death care that is both technically grounded and spiritually resonant, deeply tied to the land and legacy of Borikén.