Final Moments With Mr. 101
She recalls her most unforgettable bedside goodbye.
Jul 3, 2026 · 54 min · 13 segments
As a hospice aide and certified End of Life Doula, Cassidy Bastien is helping her clients and their families facilitate and provide meaningful after death care. She’s cared for people with serious…
Cassidy BastienGuest
Helen BauerHost
I want to talk about the vial of hair for a minute because I can see where people don't do that these days.

They cut a lock of hair and to keep a lock of hair was, especially for a child that had died, was a very common practice.

And when my grandfather died, I received a lot of those keepsakes that they had.

And one of them was a picture of her grandmother and a little pocket of her hair.

So I actually do have those, you know, and at the time I thought, What? Okay.

Um, you know, when she passed and, but it was really popular in the Victorian era to utilize hair, especially, um, in the UK as, um, legacy items.

Um, memorial pieces, you know, I mean, some of them were really ornate, um, So yeah, that's kind of where that came from.

Or, oh my gosh, I'm going to have my dad put that in a belt with my mom's hair.

I want to talk about the vial of hair for a minute because I can see where people don't do that these days.

They cut a lock of hair and to keep a lock of hair was, especially for a child that had died, was a very common practice.

And when my grandfather died, I received a lot of those keepsakes that they had.

And one of them was a picture of her grandmother and a little pocket of her hair.

So I actually do have those, you know, and at the time I thought, What? Okay.

Um, you know, when she passed and, but it was really popular in the Victorian era to utilize hair, especially, um, in the UK as, um, legacy items.

Um, memorial pieces, you know, I mean, some of them were really ornate, um, So yeah, that's kind of where that came from.

Or, oh my gosh, I'm going to have my dad put that in a belt with my mom's hair.
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