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CEOLC Affiliate Members Offer End-of-Life Products & Services

Affiliate Members of the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative (CEOLC) are vetted businesses, companies, professionals & nonprofit organizations in the state of Colorado that offer end-of-life products & services (other than those of an end-of-life doula) & embrace a similar vision and mission to that of the CEOLC.

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Sustainable Funeral

Sustainable FuneralContact Name: Ed Gazvoda
Location: 6065 W 55th Place Arvada Colorado 80002 United StateshomePhone: (720) 571-9368homeEmail: rq@fhfgnvanoyrshareny.pbzINTERNETWebsite: SustainableFuneral.com

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What is a Sustainable Funeral®?

A Sustainable Funeral beneficially returns one’s body to the earth, without the need for a casket or cemetery plot – saving thousands of dollars compared to a burial. Our Alkaline Hydrolysis 2.0 process offers the greenest way to go.

The family receives a biodegradable cotton urn and the body’s composted organic matter in reusable containers. The person’s essence, their composted organic nutrients, live on after being gifted to a tree, pasture, forest, yard, church grounds, or the place or places where one wishes to be memorialized. Families may opt for us to return some or all the essence to the earth, on their behalf.

Now, the deceased can be returned to the earth without harming the people, places, and pets they loved.

Speakers Bureau

Ed Gazvoda is a maverick in the funeral industry. He founded both Sustainable Funeral® and Fireless Cremation™ to bring Alkaline Hydrolysis 2.0™ to the world. His tell all speaking style led to his winning the 2020 Denver Startup Week Pitch Competition’s $100,000 prize pool. Even mortals who fear the topic of death find themselves enjoying, yes even laughing, as he compares the ecological impact of various end-of-life options. Discover what you need to know about funerals, embalming, burial, cremation, composting, and alkaline hydrolysis.

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6065 W 55th Place Arvada Colorado 80002 United States

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The Natural Funeral

The Natural FuneralManaging PartnerContact Name: Karen van Vuuren
Location: 102 West Chester Street Lafayette Colorado 80026 homePhone: 720-515-2344homeEmail: vasb@guranghenyshareny.pbzINTERNETWebsite: TheNaturalFuneral.comVideo: Virtual TourVideo: Reverent Body Care

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverant Body Care, Urns & Caskets, Water Cremation
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Mission and Vision statements

Our mission is to provide natural death care choices to families in alignment with their values potentially transforming their journey of loss into meaning and healing.

Our vision is to reimagine funeral service as a holistic offering that emphasizes ecological choice and healing ceremony in response to loss.


It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

We light the way for our families to find meaning and hope in the face of grief and loss. We have sponsored community educational events around grief and advanced planning including storytelling and writing workshops. We host an annual remembrance evening Light From Our Hearts with music, the spoken word and a name reading of our departed loved ones which is a gift to our community.

The Natural Funeral is an award-winning holistic funeral home specializing in natural Reverent Body Care™, eco cremation called water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis, and green burial. We also offer conventional flame cremation and visitations and vigils in our beautiful pine chapel. We are a full service funeral home serving the Boulder/Denver Metro area and beyond. Read our google testimonials to learn what our customers say about our high quality, personalized service.

The Natural Funeral also offers locally sourced, artist-made urns and caskets.

Karen van Vuuren has directed two award-winning educational films – Dying Wish – dyingwishmedia.com (about voluntary stopping of eating and drinking at end stage illness) and Go in Peace goinpeacefilm.org (about veterans end of life care). For more than ten years, Karen was editor of Natural Transitions magazine, sharing conscious, holistic and natural approaches to end of life. She is co-founder of The Natural Home Funeral Alliance – homefuneralalliance.org. She has taught workshops on natural death care for 20 years.

Speakers Bureau

Karen van Vuuren is a former broadcast and print journalist who is co-founder of Colorado’s first holistic, natural funeral home – The Natural Funeral (thenaturalfuneral.com) serving the Boulder-Denver metro area and beyond. Twenty years ago, Karen founded a non-profit, Natural Transitions to educate about and support families with natural death care. She has edited the organization’s biannual magazine, led regular natural death care workshops, and national death care related events on green burial and home funerals, cofounding The National Home Funeral Alliance. Karen is also a documentary-maker whose award-winning hospice films are Dying Wish (dyingwishmedia.com) about a dying doctor’s decision to stop eating and drinking) and Go In Peace (goinpeacefilm.org) about supporting caregivers working with terminally ill veterans with PTSD.

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102 West Chester Street Lafayette Colorado 80026

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Next Steps Grief Recovery

Next Steps Grief RecoveryCertified Grief Recovery SpecialistContact Name: Lorane Wilson
Location: Colorado homePhone: 970-903-5889homeEmail: yjvyfbapzg@nby.pbzINTERNETWebsite: NextStepsGriefRecovery.com

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If you are exploring this website there is a good chance that your have recently lost someone you love, or someone you love is in the process of dying.

The sadness/grief that follows a major change or loss is normal and natural. Family and friends may try to tell you, Be Strong, Time Heals, Keep Busy, replace your loss, or even to grieve alone.  Most of this advice isn’t helpful and it’s not true. We get stuck in grief and sadness because of incomplete communication.  We needed to apologize, say I love you, mend a disagreement…lost hopes, dreams and expectations shattered.

This is the work of Grief Recovery. Together we will complete the relationship that is keeping you stuck. Every week for 7 weeks we will meet on Zoom in the privacy and comfort of your home.  You will have simple reading assignments and homework plus one on one discussion to help you find the path out of your sadness and back to the joy you deserve in your life.

We will be using The Grief Recovery Handbook as our text, I will provide this for you.

Services:

One on One Grief Recovery Coaching

Grief Recovery Groups – 6-8 members

Helping Children with Loss – A class for Parents & anyone working with children.

Current Projects:

I have recently expanded my business to include work with pregnancy and infant loss.

My Training:

2020 – Stillbirthday Doula and Bereavement training
2017- Grief Recovery Institute – Certified Grief Recovery Specialist
2017 – INELDA Death Doula training
2015-2017 Centers for Spiritual Living – Licensed Spiritual Practitioner

Speakers Bureau

As a certified Grief Recovery Specialist, I am happy to speak about:

  • The Myths of Grief
  • Anticipatory Grief – the grief that steals our todays
  • Helping Children With Loss
  • Grief in Aging
  • Pet Loss and Grief

Mission & Vision statement:

My goal is to offer tools of healing for anyone experiencing a grief event in their life.  To normalize the feelings of grief and bring the discussion into normal conversation.  To equip parents, teachers and anyone working with children tools to help children with loss. To open the conversation on death and dying in our communities and families to help us create a Spiritual event instead of a medical event.

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Rocky Mountain Life-Cycle Celebrants

Rocky Mountain Life-Cycle CelebrantsCelebrant Foundation & InstituteContact Name: Ben Martin
Location: Denver Colorado United StateshomeEmail: Ora@rffragvnyprerzbavrf.pbzINTERNETWebsite: RockyMountainCelebrant.com

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Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants® are individuals who understand how ceremony, storytelling, and ritual can vitally serve, as conscious aspects, in our lives; they also recognize that our society is awakening to this fact. Certified Celebrants, educated through the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, have coupled their passion for ceremony with rigorous training in faith traditions, mythology, and the art of ceremonial writing and speaking.

Regardless of whether a ceremony originates from a secular, spiritual or religious point of view, Celebrants collect gems of information from their clients, collaboratively design the structure of the celebration, and then craft a personalized ceremony to uplift, inspire and deepen the meaning of the moment.

Celebrants are Ceremony Specialists. They have studied the history, theory, principles and concepts of ritual – the foundational tools that make for a significant event. Celebrants are also savvy questioners. They take great care and time with their clients during the interview process. As a result, this shared experience brings forth the story (the hallmark of a Celebrant Ceremony), builds rapport, and grounds a sense of trust in the ceremony’s development. This first-hand level of attention is a distinctive feature that Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants bring to the creative table of ceremony making.

Ceremonies Across the Life Cycle
    • Ceremonies for Families & Children
    • Healing & Transitions
    • Rites of Passage / Milestone Moments
End-of-Life
    • Celebration of Life
    • Funerals
    • Living Memorials
    • Pet Funerals / Memorials
LGBTQ+ Ceremonies
    • LGBTQ+ Ceremonies Across the Life Cycle
    • LGBTQ+ End of Life
    • LGBTQ+ Weddings
Union Ceremonies
    • Elopement / Vow Renewal
    • Weddings
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Denver Colorado United States

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Be a Tree Cremation

Be a Tree CremationContact Name: Emily Nelson
Location: 2970 W Severn Pl Denver Colorado 80204 United StateshomePhone: 720-782-2782homeEmail: Pner@OrNGerrPerzngvba.pbzINTERNETWebsite: BeATree.Life

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Be a Tree Cremation provides environmentally-friendly water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) services to the greater Denver community. We help families honor loved ones by returning them to the earth, with full-service scattering and cremation memorial trees. Water cremation services will be available in fall 2020. Cremation memorial tree and scattering services are available now.

Speakers Bureau

Emily Nelson is the Founder of Be a Tree Cremation, one of the first water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) facilities in Colorado. She offers expertise in eco-friendly cremation and entrepreneurship. Emily has presented for numerous executive groups in her previous role at Service Corporation International as well as educational forums within the death care space. With nearly 10 years of experience in marketing for the healthcare and death care industries, she can speak to consumer trends and reaching customers in an ever-evolving space.

“As a Pioneer in the alternative/ “green” funeral industry, Emily Nelson has been an asset to have as a guest speaker for our DeathWives students. Her bold work in bringing water cremation to Denver is refreshing and environmentally impactful.” -Erin Merelli, Founder of DeathWives

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2970 W Severn Pl Denver Colorado 80204 United States

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Laura Walker, Writer

Laura Walker, Writer
Location: Front Range Boulder County Broomfield Colorado 80023 United StateshomePhone: ‪(404) 919-8037‬homeEmail: ynhen@ynhenjnyxrejevgre.pbzINTERNETWebsite: LauraWalkerWriter.com

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  • Marketing and communications professional with comprehensive organizational and leadership skills
  • Project manager with advanced ability to balance priority with deadline in work planning, collaboration and execution
  • Business-to-business acumen, technical writing and editing proficiency, perceptive and versed content writer
  • WordPress website creator with knowledge of best SEO practices, analytics, social and other digital media marketing
  • Master’s degree in writing, 15 years teaching college-level English, 17+ years professional writing and editing experience.

As a practiced hand in the strategy, design, fulfillment, analysis and revision of compelling marketing and communications projects, I provide a spectrum of services. Having worked with numerous organizations in myriad industries, I have also written award-winning business plans, complete with competitive analysis and financial projections, as well as planned and executed marketing strategies. From the complex job of comprehensive rebranding to the straightforward print-mailer campaign, and everything in between, I’ve done it or will quickly learn how. Some examples:

  • Copywriting: Specialty, research and news articles; B2B correspondence; press releases; white papers, blogs and websites; video and film scripts; business plans and reports; and various other marketing materials.
  • Editing: Government and scientific documents, quarterly financial journals, semi-annual literary magazine, poetry anthology, quarterly digital magazine, procedure manuals, and marketing materials.
  • Marketing: WordPress website creation, social media and email marketing, print advertising and sales materials, nonprofit fundraising, and successful solicitation of high-quality content donated by professional writers and bloggers.
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Broomfield Colorado 80023 United States

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Labyrinth of the Heart Center, LLC

Labyrinth of the Heart Center, LLCContact Name: Dianna Vagianos Armentrout
Location: P.O. Box 621076 Littleton Colorado 80127 United StateshomeEmail: qvnaan@qvnaanintvnabf.pbzINTERNETWebsite: Website and Blog

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Education/Training, Grief and Bereavement Support, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support, Spiritual Guidance
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The Labyrinth of the Heart Center, LLC was created to support families going through pregnancy and infant loss and grief in order to honor our dead and our journeys with them in unity and love. Classes are offered to support families by learning appropriate communication skills around death, using ritual and creative arts for healing, and strengthening  networks and communities. Writing classes are offered to individuals who are seeking a modality to express grief and honor loved ones. Motherhood includes all of our losses at the Center. We honor each other through compassion, and work with the ancestors who have also lost pregnancies and babies from the beginning of humanity. All are welcome at our table.

Dianna’s pregnancy with her daughter, Mary Rose, who died an hour after birth of trisomy 18, changed her life completely. Dianna wishes to change the cultural fear of death and social awkwardness around the bereaved by educating others to be present and open to the natural process of death. Miscarriage rates and infant death rates are high in our country, yet little support is available to families over the years.

She has written a poetry collection and novel and is in the process of seeking publication for both manuscripts. Find her poems, short fiction and essays online and on her YouTube channel.

My baby is dead. For five months of my pregnancy I knew that my daughter, Mary Rose, would die, though I did not know when she would die. What surprises me most is that I am alive. I am alive after the heartache of knowing about her condition, alive after holding her still body in my arms moments after her birth. Afterpains came with empty arms, as did my baby’s milk. Those months of pregnancy with the knowledge that our baby had trisomy 18 felt like a million years of sadness. . . During my pregnancy I did not find much to comfort me. I am writing the book that I wish I could have read when I was pregnant with my daughter. . .

I see life as spiritual path. I can only make sense of Mary Rose’s life if I look at it from a distance. I put myself in the context of my grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Women have been burying their children since the beginning of time. I am one woman who has walked this searing path of pain. Yet somewhere inside our hearts we have the strength to carry on, not to move on, as some would want us to do. We can continue our lives taking our babies with us. Our arms are empty, but our hearts are full. The love we have for our children, living or dead, grows. I do not believe in a final good-bye.

Excerpt from Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Newborn Death ©2016 White Flowers Press

Dianna is a writer, teacher, workshop facilitator and finder of joy. Join her on a journey of joyous grief.

Classes

Walking Through Pregnancy and Infant Loss – https://www.diannavagianos.com/infant-pregnancy-loss

Holding our Loved Ones who Died during the Holiday Season – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/holiday-retreat-and-writing-class

Joyous Grief: Finding Beauty and Hope in a Broken World – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/joyous-grief-1

The Mothership: Navigating the Complexities of Motherhood through Writing – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/the-mothership-1

Writing in the Garden: Meditations on the Natural World – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/writing-in-the-garden-1

Consulting

Grief – https://www.diannavagianos.com/product-page/grief-consulting

Intuitive – https://www.diannavagianos.com/product-page/90-min-intuitive-consulting

Speakers Bureau

Dianna Vagianos Armentrout offers workshops and classes on grief and loss. Her class on Pregnancy and Infant Loss is modeled after her book Walking the Labyrinth of Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Newborn Death which details her pregnancy and grief journey of receiving a life-limiting diagnosis for her unborn baby mid-pregnancy. Her book has helped people let go of their loved ones at the end of their life, including Kirsty Reyes who said Dianna’s words helped her take care of her mother who was dying of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

Additionally, Dianna teaches poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. She has spoken to many audiences on poetry and other topics related to creative arts in her career. She currently has classes on grief, motherhood and gardening open on her website http://www.diannavagianos.com.

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P.O. Box 621076 Littleton Colorado 80127 United States

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Feldman Mortuary

Feldman MortuaryDirector of Pre-PlanningContact Name: Jamie Sarche
Location: 1673 York Denver Colorado 80206 homeLocation: Colorado homePhone: 303-322-7764homeEmail: wnzvr@sryqznazbeghnel.pbzINTERNETWebsite: Feldman Mortuary

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Every funeral service should reflect the unique individual being remembered. At Feldman’s, we celebrate these special lives with meaningful services and appropriate arrangements that respect the customs and traditions of the diverse Denver communities we serve.

Feldman’s is built on the belief that honoring and remembering your loved ones is a unique and individual experience. We listen to and respect the wishes of our families and are here to help you create a memorial, funeral or celebration of life that reflects and honors the wishes of your loved one. Comforting the bereaved and caring for your loved one is our greatest privilege.

Speakers Bureau

My calling is helping people be less afraid of death. By helping them to provide their loved ones with a planned and funded funeral or memorial service, they create a path for bereavement, long before it’s need. Truly, I help people live a better, more meaningful life.

A seasoned speaker, I bring deep experience in death care to a broad range of audiences around the country, sharing insights and approaches on how to have those difficult conversations and how to address sensitive issues. Extending well beyond death and dying, my message resonates across industries and individuals, bridging my passion to demystify death while enlightening communicators on overcoming challenging conversations.

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1673 York Denver Colorado 80206

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