What Were You Taught About Death Growing Up?

What Were You Taught About Death Growing Up?

How our earliest experiences with death shape everything that comes after. There is a question I have asked many times, in many rooms, to people of all ages and backgrounds. Sometimes it comes up in the quiet, candlelit setting of a Death Cafe, a community gathering...
Why the Words We Use Around Suicide Matter

Why the Words We Use Around Suicide Matter

As a funeral director, I usually know how someone died before I ever sit with their family. But often, they don’t know that I know. I watch them wrestle with how to say it, how to explain it, how to make sense of what happened. Sometimes they whisper, “He committed...
In Memoriam 2020

In Memoriam 2020

As the year 2020 comes to an end, we wanted to express both our gratitude and our warm wishes to each of the families we have served. We have created a memorial video to honor those we lost in 2020 and to let you know that we remember. Not every family we work with...