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Posts by category

• Category: Articles
  • Write Your Own Obit
  • A beautiful 8-minute video about death doula Alua Arthur.
  • Death cafes, death doulas, “Ask a Mortician,” DeathLab — once the province of goth subculture, death is having a moment in the sun.
  • A new book by Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, includes an entire chapter on CEOLP.
  • Sheryl Sandberg and Elizabeth Alexander on Love, Loss and What Comes Next
  • Physician Aid in Dying Gains Acceptance in the U.S.
  • Funeral Home Resource
  • No reason for controversy over end-of-life planning
  • Seven Ponds Blog: An Interview with Stephanie Gaines
  • End of Life Options
• Category: Blog
  • A Beautiful Death By Rosie Eastman
  • The new (removeable) Plexiglass cover on the PYRE structure
  • Naming the Lost Memorials 
  • Grief
  • Revised COVID Restrictions Affect CEOLP Cremation Ceremonies
  • Boom Time for Death Planning:
  • Cielo Azul offers natural burial for local pets
  • My Grandmother’s Last Days Were in Our Living Room: The small blessing of quarantine is that we were all together.
  • Covid-19 Related Articles
  • BJ Miller, MD, a hospice and  palliative medicine physician
  • ‘We’re Going to See What Else the Word Funeral Can Mean’ – The New York Times
  • We Will Need New Ways to Grieve
  • What I Learned Photographing Death
  • An Oral History of CEOLP
  • The annual CEOLP volunteers contemplative retreat
  • This Is How I Want to Be Dead
  • Life Cycles—Yizkor memorial candle settings by artist Shahna Lax
  • Crestone End of Life Project Registration Party Set for June 24
  • Holy Smoke – The Way of Life, and End of Life Choices
  • Making Crestone’s Green Cemetery Even Greener
• Category: CEOLP News
  • Copper art by Shahna Lax Benefits CEOLP
  • CEOLP/IFC Events for October, 2017
  • “The Symptoms of Dying”
  • UPCOMING EVENTS: Contemplative Retreat Day and Memorial Celebration
  • Informed Final Choices and Crestone End of Life Project Accomplishments for 2016
  • Governor Hickenlooper signs Colorado’s ‘Medical-Aid-In Dying’ Bill
  • CEOLP Volunteer Training Day February 4, 2017
  • CEOLP-IFC Public Meeting
  • Informed Final Choices 2015 Accomplishments
  • CEOLP 2015 Accomplishments
  • Open Air documentary showing at the Cloud
  • CEOLP and IFC Info Sheet Crestone Eagle Nov 2015
  • Free “Care of the Body” training for CEOLP volunteers and friends
  • Death: OK. Let’s Talk About It.
  • Workshop to make copper site “sigil” plaques
  • Free Death Cafe Gathering on Halloween
  • NY Times best seller Caitlin Doughty visits Crestone End of Life Project
  • Cremation Site Renovation
  • CEOLP Interview on Colorado Public Radio
  • Green Burial Conference in Boulder
• Category: Events
• Category: Featured
  • Welcome to Informed Final Choices
• Category: News & More
  • How to Hold a Virtual Memorial Service
  • How to Best Thank Those Who Offer Compassionate Care During the Pandemic
  • The Movement to Bring Death Closer
  • Caregiving
  • Dr’s Advice In A COVID-19 Unit.
  • A Conversation About “A Good Death”
  • My Brother Died and Reminded Me of These Life Lessons
  • Palliative Care
  • An offering from the IFC/CEOLP Joint Board and Volunteers.
  • WINDOW
  • Why millennials are the “death positive” generation
  • The iPhone at the Deathbed
  • The State of the Medical Aid-in-Dying Debate
  • A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death.
  • As Vietnam Veterans Age, Hospices Aim to Meet Their Needs
  • CEOLP and End of Life Issues Featured in New HBO Films
  • I Could Face My Own Mortality, but My Son’s Was Another Story
  • LeaveLight Workshop To Be Offered Again
  • Green Burials
  • When the Hospice Care System Fails
  • Yom Kippur
  • CaringBridge

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Poems

• This poet was an astrophysicist who died age 39 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Funeral Blues
• What the Living Do
• Saying It
• A Tendency to Shine
• Last Words
• Perfection Wasted
• Stages
• Death Beds
• Cremation
• Live Your Best Life
• Need of the Breath
• Liberation
• Oneness
• Gibran On Death
• I AM NOT I
• Oceans
• Little Horse
• Since Feeling is First
• Because I could not stop for Death
• And Death Shall Have No Dominion
• Death ends a life
• Quote
• Death as Important
• In Need of The Breath
• A note
• Community
• Last Touch
• Thread
• From Joy
• Breathe

Ceremonies

• Reynold Bean
• Eric Weiss
• Karen Acker
• Florence Fraser
• Ross Barnhardt
• Lloyd Lovelace
• Aliyah Alexander
• William Buehler
• Joe Mendel
• Marv Mattis
• Thomas Ontko
• Joann Reeves
• Margot Williams
• Paul Rovinelli
• Karen Potter
• Lulan Sanford
• Sandra Sirois
• Jahree Burton
• Pavita Decorah
• David Harding
• Thomas Hart
• Kathyrn Spinks
• Kalisama
• Mary Palermo
• Robin Ross
• Vera Elliot
• Bill Triplett
• Harriet Johns
• Richard Bluestein
• Russell Schreiber
• John P. O'Donnell
• Safiya Balekian
• Bertha Gotterup
• Debbie Benedict
• Dyal Singh Khalsa
• Travis Timm
• Michele Baldwin
• Violet Statt
• Howard "Hob" Danforth
• Abisha Mounce
• John Kimmey
• Ed Rosenberg
• Joseph Gerlach
• Belinda Ellis
• Kenneth Kucin
• Carolyn Hendel
• Doris Haynes
• Josh Johnson
• Greg Davis
• Virginia Lange
• Kailash Huffman
• Tony Ross
• Joan Stevens
• Rebecca Eastlake
• Richard Enzer
• JoCarroll Hann
• Ann Hense
• Janet Andersen
• Doris Reinhart
• Evan Yamakawa
• Wilber Austin
• JoAnn Schlegel
• Robert Wamsley
• David Yarbrough
• Phyllis Johnson
• LaVerne Howell
• Ann D. Alves

Testimonials

• A testimonial to CEOLP
• Tessa Bielecki
• Richard Ross
• Jeanette Amlie
• John O'Donnel green burial