Big names in Home and Green funerals will be here

We are thrilled that Jerri Lyons of Final Passages has decided to join us as a participant at the 2009 National Home and Green Funeral Conference.  This is an amazing opportunity for us to host the leaders of this movement, network and grow.  If you are an advocate of green and home funerals as an option - or a passionate consumer, you need to attend this incredible event.

October 3 National Conference on Green and Home Funerals

Natural Transitions is bringing together some of the leading voices in the home and green funeral movement at this year's national conference (Ethics and Ecology) held in Boulder, Colorado. Presenters include the pioneers of the first, green burial preserve in the US, Billy Campbell MD and his wife, Kimberley who started Ramsey Creek Preserve in South Carolina.  Also part of the line up will be Beth Knox of Crossings, based in Maryland, and Char Barrett, a licensed funeral director with a difference, from Seattle, Washington.  We are hoping that this gathering will be an inspirational event for advocates and educators of home and green funerals as well as attracting open-minded and progressive thinkers from the conventional funeral industry.  More information and registration is available at http://www.naturaltransitions.org/naturaltranstions/Conference_09.html

For those with no or little direct experience of home funeral work, we are adding a mini workshop in the afternoon that will act as an introduction to the work in practice.