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This Death Care Practitioner Uses Beauty and Storytelling to Craft Unique Celebrations of Life. Rite of Passage Funerals is a modern funeral home on the Gold Coast of Australia.  Founder Yasemin Trollope wants to reimagine the reality of de...

A Funeral Industry Insider Who Helps Families Understand and Appreciate More Earth-Friendly Options.Lauren Carroll is a green funeral director at Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, and co-founder at Deathwives, a death care collective...

What Happens When Two Creative Geniuses Join Forces to Build a Better Experience for Families Dealing with a Death?Today we’re talking to Keith Crawford and David Odusanya of Solace, an affordable direct cremation company serving Portland, Oregon, Se...

Funeral director Tamara “T” Bullock was born and raised in the South Bronx. She didn’t come to her career in death care via a family connection, but through a passion for service she discovered when she experienced loss several times in her own famil...

A Long-time Advocate for Dying Beautifully, and a Powerful Voice for Dying Equally.Oceana Sawyer found her vocation through an incredibly personal experience around her own father’s death, and his wish to embrace celebration as a part of that journey...

A Pioneering Woman in the Funeral BusinessAmy Cunningham is a funeral director who came to her calling after a long career in magazine writing. Grief had been a topic she’d visited in academia and in her personal life. Nourished by a blended faith fa...