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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...

2020: A Year of Great LossThis has been a year of such widespread grief and so many difficulties for all of us. Hundreds of thousands have died from COVID-19, and others have died from the wide variety of causes that take away our loved ones each yea...

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...

In the Before Times, I identified generally as a pretty happy camper. Some would’ve called me relentlessly hopeful. But 2020 has done a number on all of us, and I’m no exception when it comes to being stressed, exhausted and anxious. Now we’re enteri...

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...