My name is Skie Denham; Death Walker.

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I have always been fascinated by the ritual of Death, ceremonies around someone dying and cemeteries since I was a child.

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From a young age, I have lost people and attended many funerals from around 10 years old.

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Caring for my family before the pass always came naturally, until one day about 8 years ago I heard someone say “Death Doula”, I was hooked. I made my mission to find out everything I could about Death and Dying in NSW and that included the funeral industry.

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I became a White Lady, then worked at an independent Cemetery before opening up my small little Funeral Home “Lifetime Funerals”/ “Into the Dreaming Funerals” in the Blue Mountains.

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Being a proud aboriginal (Wiradjuri) woman also has allowed me to share my culture and honour our people’s culture around sorry business and grief.

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I hope to keep offering families the chance to care and farewell their loved ones how they wish to, not how the industry or preconceived ideas and notions guide them.

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By offering ceremonies, home funerals and alternative options to families will hopefully pave the way for the “old way” to be new again.