One year after my friend Marcy learned she would die decades sooner than she would have liked, she wrote a letter to the core group of women she called her Sisterhood.
“Death is not my friend but it is no longer my enemy,” she wrote. “It is our collective reality and I may get to model walking into it first. I hope that the way I walk there, protected and emboldened by a cape made up of your love, will better prepare you for your own journeys.”
She did that, in part, by making sure the labor surrounding her dying was shared. Her sister would sew her shroud. Her brother would craft a lowering board from a tree harvested and milled on his farm. We would bathe her after her death, carry her to her grave, hand lower her into the earth, and fill the hole with flowers, tears, mulch, and dirt. Read More
Last Updated: June 4, 2018 by hollyjpruett 1 Comment
Monthly Informational Interview
Because of the high volume of such requests, I now offer a group informational interview session once a month. Enrollment is limited to four people, by advance registration. Cost of this hour-long, in-person session in SW Portland is $20 per person.
Alternatively, I’m available for phone, Skype, or in-person consultation at the rate of $50 for 30 minutes or $85 per hour.
Reserve your space or schedule a consultation time by emailing me at holly@hollypruettcelebrant.com. No-cost resources in this field are available on our Resource Page.
Last Updated: March 7, 2018 by hollyjpruett 1 Comment
“Aqua Green Cremation” Comes to Portland
Spaces are filling fast for the workshop that will introduce this option to Portland
While I try to avoid euphemisms, I’ve yet to find an elegant way to refer what to do with a dead body. Straightforward terms such as burial and cremation work well on their own. But to refer to those and other methods collectively, we seem stuck with final disposition.
The latest final disposition option comes with its own tangle of technical and market-friendly terms. Alkaline hydrolysis, also known as resomation, biocremation, and water or flameless or green cremation, is now legal in 15 states and three Canadian provinces. Read More
Last Updated: March 7, 2018 by hollyjpruett 1 Comment
Natural Death Care: Green Burial & “Aqua Green Cremation”
Learn about green death care options from the region’s leading natural burial providers. Be the first to learn about “Aqua Green Cremation,” now available in the Portland area.
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Posted: February 15, 2018 by hollyjpruett Leave a Comment
March 10: Talking About Suicide
Last Updated: February 6, 2018 by hollyjpruett Leave a Comment
A Village-Making Death
“Death is not my friend but it is no longer my enemy,” she wrote. “It is our collective reality and I may get to model walking into it first. I hope that the way I walk there, protected and emboldened by a cape made up of your love, will better prepare you for your own journeys.”
She did that, in part, by making sure the labor surrounding her dying was shared. Her sister would sew her shroud. Her brother would craft a lowering board from a tree harvested and milled on his farm. We would bathe her after her death, carry her to her grave, hand lower her into the earth, and fill the hole with flowers, tears, mulch, and dirt. Read More
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