Cooling plate 

Amitayus Home Hospice & the Natural Death Care Centre have purchased a cooling plate for community use. A cooling plate is an electrically powered refrigerated way of keeping a dead body cool to allow for home death care.

It allows families or friends to keep a body refrigerated at home or elsewhere between death and the funeral ceremony or cremation/burial. In NSW you can do this legally for up to 5 days. During this time the body, especially the torso MUST be kept cold to stop it deteriorating.

The cooling plate is an expensive and delicate piece of equipment.The responsibility for correct and continuing use is in your hands, just like the body of your person. If you don’t follow the instructions correctly ( see below link) it may cause you or the body distress. We cannot emphasize this strongly enough.

Fee for the use of the plate is $50 per day. For further info or to make an arrangement to borrow the plate please contact:

John Millard on 0419 485 719

Instruction manual

 

Natural Death Care Centre

Based in Northern NSW.“Our inspirational dream is that every individual, community and service provider has the knowledge and capacity to do death well.”
They run Deathwalker trainings around the country

 

Paperbark Death Care a holistic and contemporary funeral and ceremonial service, based in the Northern Rivers  https://www.paperbarkdeathcare.com.au

Palliative Care AustraliaPalliative Care Australia is the peak national organisation representing the interests and aspirations of all who share the ideal of quality care at the end of life for all.
Amitabha Hospice AucklandSimilar service to us based in Auckland. Site has excellent information.
Karuna Hospice ServicesBased in Brisbane, “Karuna’s goal is to provide comfort and quality of life for people who are dying and their families, and relieve fear and suffering associated with loss.”
CareSearch –palliative care knowledge network  “Bringing relevant evidence and quality information to palliative care”
Lotus Palliative Care – Providing specialist palliative nursing care in your home for the Northern Rivers community