“The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with ‘dignity.’ Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for…
This New York Times article explains the common end-of-life symptoms.
Both organizations received Saguache County Sales Tax Grants: IFC was awarded $2500 towards creating a new website (this one), and CEOLP was awarded $1000 for maintaining and improving the cremation site. Hosted two Death Cafes Sponsored three public film screenings:…
An update on the End of Life Options Act in Colorado (Proposition 106): December 16, 2016. Colorado has become the sixth state to allow terminally ill adults with six months or fewer to live and suffering unbearable the option to…
Crestone End of Life Project (CEOLP) and Informed Final Choices (IFC) have created a useful fact sheet to download, print and save for your reference. The sheet is featured as a full page ad in the November 2015 issue of…
CEOLP’s own Marta Shoman recently presented, “Creating a Community-Based End of Life Support Group” at the Death: OK. Let’s Talk About It conference at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. To learn more about the event, visit the event page here.
Caitlin Doughty’s visit to Crestone’s End of Life Project, showed how embracing death positivity and sustainable rituals for a meaningful farewell experience.
The Crestone End-of-Life Project director/founder Stephanie Gaines talks to us about her organization and its singular open-air cremation site. Read the complete 2-part interview at the Seven Ponds Blog-site.
An essay on the cremation ceremony of Ed Rosenberg… Our son Bothe told us about Ed Rosenberg’s death. The funeral was to be in two days, an open-air cremation at sunrise in Crestone. I felt hesitant about attending the funeral,…
Crestone End of Life Project volunteers recently completed a renovation and upgrade to the open air cremation site located on the Dragon Mountain Zen Center land in Crestone, Colorado. Improvements included a more permanent fencing structure, bamboo screening, and a…