{"id":1086,"date":"2010-07-07T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/paganportal\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2010-07-07T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T16:40:04","slug":"death-midwife-psg-interview-with-nora-cedarwind-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/pantheon\/2010\/07\/death-midwife-psg-interview-with-nora-cedarwind-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Death-Midwife: PSG Interview with Nora Cedarwind Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Before Pagan Spirit Gathering I had never heard of a death-midwife but it makes perfect sense. Midwives were healers of body and spirit, they guided people through the transition of birth, death and even marriage by matchmaking. While birth midwives have been making a comeback since the 1970\u2019s, midwives who help families with the transition of death are still uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>Along with sharing her stories and thoughts about PSG, Nora Cedarwind Young told us about death-midwives: what they do and how she became one. If you enjoy this interview you may was to check out Nora\u2019s site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thresholdsoflife.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thresholds of Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.patheos.com\/Psg2010NoraCedarwindYoungPaganNewswireCollective.mp3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Pagan Spirit Gathering I had never heard of a death-midwife but it makes perfect sense. 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