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“I Help People Die for a Living”
A beautiful 8-minute video about death doula Alua Arthur, who helps people prepare for death physically, mentally, and spiritually.
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A Child’s Grief
This documentary demonstrates the importance of recognizing and honoring children’s experience of grief. Opinion | What a ‘Grief Camp’ For Kids Can Show Us About Healing – The New York Times
CO Burial Preserve
Colorado Burial Preserve, coloradoburialpreserve.com, celebrated its opening in conjunction with The Natural Funeral service group, thenaturalfuneral.com, on Sunday, March 20, 2022. Colorado Burial Preserve is located in Florence, Colorado. The article cited below paints a lovely picture of the type of disposition…
Zen Hospice documentary.
A moving documentary on Palliative Care teams serving terminal patients and their families at UC San Francisco Hospital and the Zen Hospice, under the active direction of BJ Miller. https://www.netflix.com/title/80210691?s=i&trkid=255824129
Why millennials are the “death positive” generation
Unlike boomers, young people are embracing planning their own funerals. It’s fueling changes in the death industry.
The iPhone at the Deathbed
Families are photographing death at home. These photos may feel jarring on Facebook, but the practice itself has a long history. “The impulse to photograph is the same as it was for the Victorians. They want to show they have…
CEOLP and End of Life Issues Featured in New HBO Films
In mid-August, two films related to end-of-life issues, directed and produced by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill (of HBO’s “Axios”), were released by HBO Documentaries. The Crestone End of Life Project and the late Aliyah Alexander are the subject of…
What I Learned Photographing Death
Documenting the final moments between critically ill children and their families helped me come to terms with my cancer diagnosis. Read More Here
An Oral History of CEOLP
How did the Crestone End of Life Project come to be? What was involved in getting it off the ground, and how does it work? A public informational event in Crestone in late April provided clear, articulate and interesting answers…
Yom Kippur
A Dress Rehearsal for Our Deaths: Yom Kippur asks us to look our mortality in the face. Can we sustain the stare? Read more here >