Eco-Friendly Funeral Panel Discussion

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This Before I Die New Mexico Festival panel discussion focuses on trends in greening your final arrangements and creating eco-friendly funerals. The panelists are:
Jessica Wakefield, CFSP, Better Place Forests, Director of Partnerships, Community & Education (https://www.betterplaceforests.com/).
Darren Crouch, President and CEO of Passages International (https://www.passagesinternational.com/) and President of the Green Burial Council (https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/).
Bryan Beard, co-owner, La Puerta Natural Burial Ground (https://www.naturalburialnewmexico.com/).

Topics discussed include:
Changes in the demographics of funeral directors and consumer preferences in disposition choices.
Alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation) and Natural Organic Reduction (NOR a.k.a. body composting).
Whole body burial at sea, placing cremated remains at sea, working with cruise ships to do cremated remains disposition at sea.
Open air cremation funeral pyres in the United States.
The difference in cremated remains between fire based and water based cremation processes.

The 2024 Before I Die New Mexico Festival took place November 1-4 at a different location each day in Albuquerque, NM. The festival features entertaining and educational elements that get people to discuss end-of-life issues and plan ahead. Most sessions are being posted on YouTube. @GailRubin is the coordinator of the festival.

Each day of the Festival had a theme:
November 1 - Eco-Friendly Funerals
November 2 - Hospice 101 and MAID
November 3 - Planning for the Inevitable
November 4 - Unexpected Deaths

The Before I Die New Mexico Festival is made possible by the support of:
• A Good Goodbye: https://agoodgoodbye.com/
• Bernalillo County Indigent Program: https://www.bernco.gov/general-services/about-the-program/
• Better Place Forests: https://betterplaceforests.com/
• Bosque Trails Hospice: https://bosquetrailshospice.com/
• Conscious Crossroads End-of-Life Services: https://deathdouladanielle.com/
• Death Doula Professionals: https://deathdoulaprofessionals.com/
• End of Life Options New Mexico: https://endoflifeoptionsnm.org/
• French Funerals & Cremations: https://frenchfunerals.com/
• Keeper Memorials: https://mykeeper.com/
• Passages International: https://www.passagesinternational.com/

Видео Eco-Friendly Funeral Panel Discussion канала Gail Rubin