This June, Goes Funeral Care, industry leaders in Green Burial in Northern Colorado, will host two special screenings of the award-winning documentary A Will for the Woods. People are searching for ways to reduce their impact on the planet, even after death. From mushroom suits, to green burial and home funerals, a more natural approach […]

This year, Mary Poppins returned, mason jars are everywhere, even acid-washed jeans made an unexpected resurgence. Many “new” ideas and practices are really old stand-bys making a come-back. It turns out funerals are no exception – the old is new again. Let me explain… When most of us picture an “old-fashioned” or “traditional” funeral, we […]

The carbon footprint of funeral service Everything we do each day has an impact on the world around us. As individuals and business owners, we should be aware of how we can lessen that impact. Funeral service providers are no different. Our businesses have the typical challenges of space, electricity, and waste, but we have […]

When a person is buried, family gathers at the graveside. They might offer a prayer, read a poem, sing a song, or tell stories of remembrance. Tears are shed and then together, they watch as the casket is lowered into the ground, the final resting place for the person they love so dearly. With the […]

In his poem, The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost describes a remembrance, of one moment and where this moment led: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. […]