Services

End-of-Life Support

Hospice Consulting

    • Comprehensive education on hospice services and benefits

    • Navigating eligibility and the admission process

    • Understand how to optimize the services available to you

    • Coaching for effective communication with hospice team

    • Professional support and resources throughout the experience

    • Coaching for you and your family as you initiate services

    • Understanding when it’s time for hospice

    • Guidance through the eligibility process

    • Supporting your transition from decision to enrollment

    • Helping you anticipate and navigate potential challenges

    • Education for holistic well-being approaches

    • Recommendations for therapeutic resources

    • Understanding traditional and complementary techniques

    • Guidance to help support your comfort

    • Coaching on preserving dignity and quality of life

    • Information about healthcare directive options (DNR, POLST)

    • Compassionate support for making informed decisions

    • Guidance on communicating your preferences

    • Educational resources available

    • Coaching for self-advocacy strategies

    • Navigating the complexity of care

    • Planning for efficient access to services

    • Ongoing support throughout your care journey

Death Plan & Dying Well

    • Benefit from years of profound death-care experience

    • Attend to various aspects of your transition honoring your values

    • Adapt support to your preferences and circumstances

    • Receive compassionate guidance for you and your loved ones

    • Illuminate subtle and obvious aspects of dying and grief

    • Become empowered to navigate with courage and meaning

    • Create a soothing presence for the dying

    • Attune to both spoken and unspoken needs

    • Honor individual wishes and preferences

    • Compassionate support for you and your loved ones

    • Coordinate with care teams and family members

    • Facilitate important conversations and goodbyes

    • Maintain a calm presence during final hours or days

    • Hold vigil and create a peaceful environment

    • Create a safe space for addressing concerns and difficult conversations

    • Encourage all voices to be heard and respected

    • Clarify and advocate for patient wishes

    • Foster honest communication and nurture relationships

    • Provide separate coaching sessions for individual family members as needed

    • Build family cohesiveness during challenging times

    • Help transform challenges into opportunities for closure and understanding

    • Proactive planning at any age

    • Facilitate essential end-of-life conversations

    • Learn about advanced directives regarding healthcare wishes

    • Assist with funeral and final disposition planning

    • Align plans with your personal values and beliefs

    • Advocate for your voice to be heard

    • Clear guidance to help ease burdens and create peace of mind for you and your loved ones 

    • Find solutions that can create peace of mind for you and your loved ones

  • Voluntary Stopping Eating & Drinking (VSED):

    • Provide education on what to expect during VSED

    • Offer guidance through the decision-making process

    • Facilitate communication with your loved ones

    • Advocate for your wishes to be respected

    • Compassionate support for you and your family

    Medical Aid In Dying (MAID):

    • Guide terminally ill, mentally capable adults through MAID

    • Provide current information to facilitate informed decisions

    • Answer questions and address any concerns

    • Advocate for the choices you make

    • Receive personalized support as you plan and prepare

    • Provide comfort and dignity throughout the process

    • Benefit from extensive end-of-life and MAID experience

    • Attentive presence and empathetic listening

    • Address unexpressed fears and nurture hopes

    • Reflect on unexamined experiences to clarify life story

    • Coaching for inner resilience

    • Create opportunities for depth and purpose through conversation

    • Compassion for grieving loved ones, including children

Funerals & Burials

    • Gain knowledge for conducting dignified home funerals

    • Learn about simple home vigils and full home funerals

    • Explore alternative options to traditional funeral homes

    • Encourage and empower loved ones to participate in the death-care process

    • Allow for unhurried family time at the time of death

    • Support a meaningful transition and final goodbye

    • Explore home funerals as a viable alternative to traditional funerals

    • Guidance through the entire home funeral journey

    • Learn about family-directed after-death care, including body care techniques

    • Tools to prepare for and conduct home funerals

    • Understand and learn about options for final disposition

    • Design meaningful ceremonies and facilitate family participation

    • Create intimate environments for peaceful gatherings and vigils

    • Address diverse cultural and spiritual needs

    • Conduct proceedings with dignity and compassion

    • Explore traditional funerals and emerging burial options

    • Create a plan that truly reflects who you are

    • Make choices about how you want to be honored

    • Support choices tailored to your beliefs and values

    • Discuss meaningful ways for loved ones to gather and celebrate

    • Ensure your final farewell aligns with your wishes

    • Plan well to help ease practical and emotional burdens on loved ones

    • Facilitate conscious planning for eco-friendly end-of-life choices

    • Explore environmentally conscious burial options

    • Discuss sustainable options aligned with your values

    • Learn about green burial spaces in traditional and dedicated cemeteries

    • Discover natural settings and conservation projects as final resting places

    • Support habitat preservation through burial choice

    • Explore the spectrum of final disposition choices

    • Discuss traditional funeral and burial services

    • Learn about cremation and ash scattering options

    • Discover green burials and eco-friendly alternatives

    • Receive information on emerging options: water cremation, human composting, whole body donation, and burial at sea

    • Learn about innovative options including: memorial diamonds, artwork, reef creation, tree-planting memorials

    • Access to resources regarding your final disposition choices

I am so deeply grateful for Bethann's wise and steady guidance throughout my mother's death process. 

She helped my family and me shift out of the curative model paradigm before it was too late which allowed my mother to have a peaceful crossing. I credit Bethann with the fact that we were able to make her comfortable and be with her in a beautiful, meaningful way. The wide view and wisdom combined with so much grounded and essential knowledge which Bethann brings to her work is deeply needed in the world today. She has my deepest gratitude and respect. 

—Sharon Kraus, LAC**

**Please Note: While Bethann Duval can't guarantee any specific results and the above testimonial does not constitute a warranty or predication regarding the outcome an individual may experience in participating in her Doing Death Differently Program and/or consultations, this client reports having a positive experience. 

Doing Death Differently

How We Can Work Together

Coaching Program

Individual Consultations

Relax & Harmonize

Coaching Program

Transformative Support for End-of-Life

Life’s final transition is its most profound. As an End-Of-Life Consultant, with an extensive background as a hospice nurse and death doula, I'm dedicated to supporting you on this journey and redefining how we approach death.

This comprehensive program invites you to courageously explore unaddressed end-of-life topics. This program is open to all seeking to bring death awareness into their waking life, prepare for and learn more about death and dying.

As your trusted coach, I am here to facilitate this journey, fostering open, honest, and deep conversations.

You'll Have The Opportunity to Experience:

  • A safe space to confront fears and ask difficult questions

  • Expert education on navigating end-of-life situations and complex decisions

  • Compassionate support for you and your loved ones

  • Holistic support for physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being

  • Integrative skills for both those facing death and caregivers

  • Creating documents to honor your final wishes

By Participating, You'll Have the Opportunity to Gain:

  • Profound insights into the nature of life and death

  • Practical tools for navigating end-of-life scenarios

  • Emotional resilience and spiritual growth

Whether you're seeking personal growth, expanding your knowledge, preparing for the inevitable, or supporting loved ones - this program is designed to empower you.

Allow me to offer my knowledge, advocacy, and sensitivity. Together, we can foster a culture of openness, understanding, and acceptance, creating an end-of-life experience that honors your values and can transform your perspective on living and dying.*

Reach out today to begin with your free 15-minute consultation.

Individual Consultations

Personal Guidance For End-of-Life Support

Explore end-of-life matters and address your questions regarding death in tailored one-on-one coaching sessions.

Coaching sessions can cover a wide range of topics including, but not limited to:

  • Support for addressing emotional and spiritual aspects of the dying process

  • Guidance on navigating hospice care and healthcare decisions

  • Creating personalized death plans for a meaningful end-of-life journey

  • Understanding and planning funeral and burial options

Explore My End-of-Life Support Offerings

You choose the focus, directing our time towards what matters most to you. Whether you seek specific guidance or broader support, these coaching sessions are designed to offer you a safe space for education and open, honest conversation.*

Reach out today to book your free 15-minute consultation.

Relax & Harmonize

Sessions to Help You Discover Inner Peace and Calm

In life's final chapters, finding moments of peace and comfort becomes especially meaningful and profound. Creating space for relaxation and inner balance helps ease the journey, allowing for deeper connections with yourself and those around you.

Explore these Offerings:

  • Experience the gentle power of this ancient Japanese Art that can support harmony of body, mind and spirit. Sessions are designed to help you:

    • Release tension and stress

    • Support natural circulation and flow

    • Experience deeper balance and calm

    • Learn simple self-help techniques

    • Harmonize the energy in your body

  • Immerse yourself in a tranquil space of calming sounds and gentle light. Each session combines the soothing vibrations of singing bowls, tuning forks, and gongs with the gentle warmth of red and infrared light therapy.


    Sound & Light Baths can offer:

    • Deep relaxation through sound and light

    • Gentle vibrations throughout your system

    • A space for stillness and inner calm

    • The soothing warmth of therapeutic light

    • Experience peaceful resonance in body, mind and spirit

To learn more, schedule your free 15-minute consultation with Bethann.

*Please Note: Although Bethann Duval is a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Florida and in all compact nursing states, and has extensive experience as a hospice nurse, she does not provide any medical/nursing/hospice or other licensed health care services as an End-Of-Life Consultant. Further, her services as an End-Of-Life Consultant are not licensed and they are separate from the services she offers under her RN license. Please refer to the Disclaimer for further information. 

Inspiring Words From Past Clients**

  • She is a true angel of compassion and wisdom.

    I am a very strong and resolute man, who usually depends only upon himself to get things done in life. Living with, and caring for, my mother was very challenging for me. She broke her hip after which she began a consistent health decline over many years, eventually suffering from the all-too-common neurodegenerative disease - Alzheimer's. Bethann Duval helped me understand and navigate the complex medical system with my mother. Navigating health insurance, county assistance, and eventually end-of-life decisions including cremation arrangements are not things that I could do on my own. I wish for you all of the caring love and astute professional expertise that she can provide. She is a true angel of compassion and wisdom.

    —Bruce Tashoff, Physics professor

  • ...Bethann is my trusted resource.

    Bethann Duval stands out as an exceptional educator in the field of end-of-life care. Over the past decade of collaboration, her expertise has consistently impressed me. She artfully integrates practical knowledge with deeper insights into the end-of-life journey. Bethann's approach spans from essential paperwork to profound existential considerations, helping individuals clarify their thoughts and plans. Her exceptional expertise stems from her comprehensive approach, seamlessly integrating her nursing skills, death midwife services, and consultative abilities to provide holistic end-of-life care and guidance. For matters concerning healthcare navigation, end-of-life planning, death, and grief, Bethann is my trusted resource. Her dedication to this work and her reliable availability are truly commendable. I'm deeply appreciative of her service in this crucial area.

    —Cathryn Cyr, LMT, CNA

  • ...she's a true lifeline...

    Bethann's impact on our situation was nothing short of transformative. Her expert guidance empowered me to advocate effectively for my loved one, steering us away from an extended hospital stay and a cycle of trial-and-error pain management. Her invaluable insights into the end-of-life process provided much-needed clarity, especially regarding discharge procedures and key contacts. Bethann's consultation was a game-changer, offering both practical solutions and emotional support during an incredibly challenging time. Her expertise and compassion make her more than just a consultant – she's a true lifeline. I'm profoundly grateful for Bethann's unwavering support and consider her an absolute hero in my life. Her ability to navigate complex healthcare scenarios with such skill and empathy is truly remarkable.

    —Rachel Somers, PsyD, PhD

**Please Note: While Bethann Duval can't guarantee any specific results and the testimonials above do not constitute a warranty or predication regarding the outcome an individual may experience in using her coaching services, these clients report having positive experiences.

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