Linda Suhr
End-of-Life Doula, Preplanning for End of Life, After Death Logistics and Support
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Through deep listening and an open heart, Linda meets her clients and their loved ones wherever they are on their journey with life’s final transition. Linda supports those who have a serious illness with the medley of care needed as they navigate this sacred time. She provides practical support and education about options as well as emotional and spiritual support.
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Linda also assists those who are relatively healthy to deeply reflect on the inevitable end of life and organize their wishes and practical information by documenting and sharing them with their important people. Clients feel an enormous sense of relief and give an invaluable gift to their loved ones.
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Linda offers workshops on Advance Health Care Directives an on End-of-Life Planning throughout Sonoma County.
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After caring for her partner on his journey with Alzheimer's Disease and peaceful death at home, Linda found her calling as an End-of-Life Doula. She trained with Going with Grace, Final Passages and Inspired Endings. Linda began Autumn of Life Planning in 2019. She serves on the Core Council of Final Passages and facilitates three end-of-life discussion groups in the local senior communities of Oakmont, Spring Lake Village and PEP Housing at Acacia Lane. Previously Linda was a teacher in California, Japan and Syria. ​
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As an educator, Linda believes knowledge and self-reflection enable us to make wise decisions. It is Linda’s goal to support those who are healthy to feel confident about their end-of-life plan and to document and share it with others so that their wishes will be honored. Linda’s goal for those who are actively dying and for their loved ones is to gain a sense of agency and peace of mind during this tender time and for them to make loving connections with each other.
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Contact: linda@autumnoflifeplanning.com
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Sabrina Hearst
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Sabrina Hearst comes to End of Life Advising and Attending (in some circles, also known as an "End of Life Doula") as a BSN trained registered nurse, former hospice nurse (six years), hospice volunteer (nine years), retired U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer (20 years active duty), registered dietitian/nutritionist with a life-time of close proximity to many family and friends as they moved through aging, chronic illness, and death.
For the past four years, Sabrina has also been a volunteer with End of Life Choices California, primarily supporting t who choose to utilize the California End of Life Options Act, that is, to utilize physician prescribed Medical Aid in Dying.
In addition to her life and professional health care experience with illness and dying, Sabrina has also completed training with INELDA, the International End of Life Doula Association (2023) and Final Passages Institute for Conscious Dying (2025).
It is Sabrina’s fervent wish for every person and family—if it is their wish—to be soundly advised, lovingly accompanied, and competently attended for autonomy, comfort, and dignity at end of life—for the last two decades and through the last two days.
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Contact: SabrinaHearst@earthlink.net
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Jerrigrace Lyons felt called to her career path as a result of the unexpected death of her dear friend Carolyn Whiting RN in 1994. Because of Carolyn’s interest in a natural and conscious approach to death care, she had left detailed instructions for her friends to prepare her body at home. Jerrigrace was profoundly moved by this experience and became passionate about reintroducing a choice that our ancestors once held sacred.
Jerrigrace is currently a death midwife and educator, End-of-Life and MAiD Doula, Reiki Master, Interfaith Minister, and a renowned pioneer of the Home Funeral Movement. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit, Final Passages started in1995, She created a certificate training program, guided nearly 500 family-led home funerals and taught thousands worldwide.
Jerrigrace offers a full spectrum of services that include consultations to explore and guide individuals who are in their final stages of life and those who wish to plan and prepare for crossing the threshold. Discussions might include conscious dying, addressing fears and concerns, and legacy projects. Jerrigrace specializes in home funeral planning and guidance and is a certified MAiD (Medical Aid in Dying) Doula, supporting those who choose this option and those who are present to witness and hold space. She brings a sense of peace, calm and clear direction at an often emotionally charged time.
Jerrigrace attended the INELDA (International End of Life Doula Association) Training,and is a certified MAiD Doula through ACAMAiD. She has taught at the Int’l Death Doula Training in Hawaii, the First International Death Symposium in Toronto and a number of conferences including Hospice, SAND (Science and Non-Duality) and City of Hope. Jerrigrace is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary A Family Undertaking, and other media such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The NY Times, Coast to Coast radio, TV, podcasts and more.
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Contact: sacredpassageswithgrace@sonic.net
Jerrigrace Lyons
Constance has assisted families as a birth midwife for thirty-six years. Her four daughters were all born at home and she midwifed her eldest and her youngest at home for the births of her six granddaughters. She loves being a nana, a gardener a dancer, a poet. Transitioning from birth work to end of life work was a natural segue, after midwifing her son by marriage through his final journey and taking her mom off of life-support. Death is another sacred threshold and it is both a blessing and an honor to be able to accompany folks as they transition.
Constance serves by holding presence, providing emotional, logistical and physical support and honoring the sacred nature of this work. She has also facilitated more than seventy rites of passages ceremonies over the years. Constance is a graduate of the Final Passages program and the Inspired Endings End of Life Doula training and is MAID certified. She is on the Core Council of Final Passages and assists with home and family funerals, as well as conscious dying. Constance is also a registered nurse, having worked in various settings besides women’s healthcare, such as home care for quadriplegics, subacute care of post-op, post amputee, post stroke patients, as well as assisting in the operating room.
Constance lives in Sebastopol at Mamalanda, a healing center with her husband, Barton Stone, a soto zen priest and teacher, and a small community of friends. She has self-published Lamentations: Grief and Remembrance, a heartful collection of poems.
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Contact: moonsong@sonic.net
Constance Miles