Greening your Death and Aligning your Values: A WillowEOL™ workshop with Christa Ovenell, AKA “Death’s Apprentice”.
This workshop is sponsored by Koru Cremation, Burial, & Ceremony.
Many of us do our best to live mindfully and walk lightly on our planet. Yet, we tend to give little consideration to the environmental impact of what happens to us after we die. Partly, this is because we live in a culture fraught with death denial. Typically, when someone dies, a funeral provider is called to remove the person and arrange for either burial or cremation. Most people don’t take the time to understand the array of options within these two choices, or what alternatives are available in addition to these two choices. The good news is, many steps can be taken to green your death no matter where you live, and new options for greening your death are growing!
In this workshop, you will:
● Discover the environmental impacts of various choices for after-death care.
● Learn about green options that may be available in your region.
● Consider the best way to align your values with the choices you make.
Christa Ovenell is the founder of Death’s Apprentice Education and Planning. Her company specializes in holistic advance care planning for individuals, families, and forward-thinking companies. She is a licensed funeral director and embalmer, as well as an end-of-life doula, community death educator and columnist on CBC Radio’s province-wide weekend morning show “North by Northwest”. She takes a heart-centred, pragmatic approach to difficult topics, helping people get comfortable thinking about, talking about, and planning for life’s only certainty. You can reach her on instagram or her website at deathsapprentice.ca
Koru Cremation, Burial and Ceremony is a locally owned deathcare business led by women. Their desire to leave a lighter footprint on earth in their personal lives is evident in their professional work as they return to the fundamentals of deathcare and focus on eco-friendly practices and products to serve the community. www.korucremation.com
