The Higher Pyre

05/07/2019

For all of you Game of Thrones fans, I couldn't help but be moved by the pyre send off. How about you?

01/18/2019

Don't know if any of you have been watching the Last Kingdom on Netflix or BBC, but the hero unburies his wife and builds her an open air pyre. This scene was incredibly moving. He is quickly punished for this anti-christian act. Today we will be punished by Big Government.

04/01/2018

Resurrection is always possible. Happy Easter!

Happy Wednesday!!!

03/28/2018

All wonderful option, but you can’t really have them😂

Earth, air, fire & water: Alternative funeral choices inspired by the four elements

02/21/2017

Thank you!

Making a Meaningful Memorial with Carolyn Niethammer, Kristine Bentz and Patrick Cunningham at the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Arizona Membership meeting.
Great material!

10/19/2016

Thank you for sharing this Vega.

08/19/2016

This was posted on the Natural Death Centre's group page. It's wildflowers and herbs. Just Lovely! So why is an option like this so rarely offered?

03/01/2016

HuffPost

HuffPost

We can help save the planet from beyond the grave.

Full videos: http://huff.to/21jXpmA and http://huff.to/1QgZchH

10/20/2015

A Bunch Of Millennials Lay In A Coffin And Talked About Their Ideal Funeral

The pyre is open to hosting a similar event, only outdoors! Any organizers out there?

"I would like to be buried in, like, a Tommy Bahama shirt and look like the chillest dude that ever lived on this Earth."

10/02/2015

Thanks to all you beautiful young people learning to save lives. You have a wonderful teacher and now you have a "James" too. When all this delicious life is over: I want to go out in a blaze of glory under the Arizona sky, naturally. And I'm honored you appreciate this.

09/11/2015

Bios Urn uses your ashes to grow a tree

Simple and Ingenious!

This biodegradable urn could transform cemeteries into forests.

08/11/2015

Kicking Off the All Souls Season!

First Reminder.

All Souls Procession season is almost upon us, and August is full of events gearing up to the season. Join the traditional season-kick-off potluck on August 31! And more!

08/04/2015

Want to scatter a loved one's ashes abroad? Some travel rules to heed.

Thanks Gail

Question: Recently, a longtime travel friend died. She had traveled with us several times on African safaris and was in love with Africa, the animals and the safari experience. One of her wishes was that we take her ashes on our next trip to South Africa and sprinkle them on a game-filled savanna...

07/19/2015

Death OK. Let’s talk about it, Portland, OR

Check it out if you're in Portland

SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/events/913227078719003/ Death:OK Opening Session featuring remarks by former Governor Barbara Roberts & “Die Wise,” a keynote by acclaimed spiritual activist, teacher, author Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW (“Griefwalker”) – Vollum College Center Dying-Centered Language f…

07/14/2015

All Souls Procession Weekend

"Their capacity to be a family after you're gone is going to derive from how you died....The work for you is trying to decide how to be a parent at a time like this. How to be a spouse at a time like this. You have to learn something you wish you didn't have to learn: how to love somebody as if it's not going to last. Because it's not."

Film (Sat, August 22): http://griefwalkertucson.bpt.me
Workshop (Sun, August 23): http://makingmeaning.bpt.me

Join us for a film screening and a full-day teaching with Stephen Jenkinson, an extraordinary teacher on grief, death, and how to Die Wise. Ticket prices will go up soon! Get your early bird tickets today!

For more on Jenkinson, check out his interviews (http://orphanwisdom.com/interviews/) or the Griefwalker movie trailer (http://orphanwisdom.com/griefwalker/).

03/01/2015

Tucson Monastery

And the Theme was "Death by Chocolate" I'm considering it!

A contemplative monastic community of nuns dedicated to prayer. Request prayer; get vocation information; buy altar breads, vestments, icons, music or soap.

01/17/2015

Mobile Uploads

01/17/2015

A Fabulous supporter made our day with this: "Thank You for everything :) What you do is definitely needed."

12/02/2014

Funeral Consumers Alliance of Arizona 2014 Fall E-News

This a wonderful non-profit organization.

Burial and cremation have been part of the human experience for thousands of years.  "Sky burial" or making a body available for birds to consume has also been around for at least hundreds of years.  

11/29/2014

Another idea.

My heart just broke...

-Tim

11/25/2014

10 Amazing Things Your Ashes Can Do After You Die

The HourGlass is new to me, how about you?

Ashes to ashes, dust to ... vinyl? Here are 10 ways to give cremains a life after death.

11/04/2014

China officials 'bought corpses'

Think a dignified ceremony and setting like the pyre would change minds about cremation?

Two officials in Guangdong province are arrested after allegedly buying corpses from grave robbers to have them cremated, Chinese media say.

10/31/2014

Death midwife eases passage to the great beyond

Death midwife eases passage to the great beyond

NORTH RIVER — The unexpected death of a close friend led a North River woman to a new calling. Death midwife Cassandra Yonder says she helped bury her St. Anns Bay neighbour Jeremy Frith in his backyard in December 2009. She also helped Frith’s wife, Sue, by guiding her through the grieving process,…

08/17/2014

GWAR's ODERUS URUNGUS Set Ablaze In Viking Funeral Pyre As Part Of Special Memorial Event (Video)

GWAR's ODERUS URUNGUS Set Ablaze In Viking Funeral Pyre As Part Of Special Memorial Event (Video)

The life of Dave Brockie, lead singer and mastermind of Richmond, Virginia-based art/shock-rock metal band GWAR, was celebrated with a special memorial event last night (Friday, August 15) at Hadad...

08/02/2014

Bend man turns 100, offers secret

You really don't have to watch the clip: His secret: "not die": Conclusion: obviously one must enjoy HUMOR.

Ansel Marshall has packed a lot into his 100 years, from jockey to turkey farmer, and on his big birthday, he offered his secret to a long life.

07/03/2014

Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral | IFLScience

Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral | IFLScience

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy is…

07/02/2014

Notes From a Home Funeral

Are you moved by this for yourself or your beloveds?

It felt intensely natural to take matters into our own hands this way. American families had conducted their own funerals for hundreds of years. When had our loved ones been taken from us by the institutionalization of death?...

05/15/2014

Oregon's voices in the green-burial movement see increase in interest

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/07/oregons_voices_in_the_green-bu.html

The movement is still small, but many are looking for options that return their body to the elements after they die.

05/09/2014

'Corporatization' of funeral industry drives quest for alternatives

'Corporatization' of funeral industry drives quest for alternatives

Across Canada and the U.S., dealing with death has become outsourced, but now people are beginning to question that shift.

03/10/2014

Why college students are dying to get into 'death classes'

Why college students are dying to get into 'death classes'

Thousands of college courses on dying and mortality are being held nationwide—and teaching lessons about life.

01/08/2014

DIY Death: Natural, At-Home Funerals And Their Boomer Appeal

DIY Death: Natural, At-Home Funerals And Their Boomer Appeal

With new momentum to shatter long-standing taboos and stop tip-toeing around death -- from "death with dignity" measures sweeping the country to promoting kitchen table "conversations" about our parents' deepest dying wishes -- a re-energized DIY death movement is emerging.

10/15/2013

Readers Respond: Should Open Air Cremation be an Option in America?

A discussion about Open Air Cremation on About.com

Should open air cremation be a funeral option in America? Share your thoughts here.

09/16/2013

This album is a condensed timeline of the long process of constructing the ustrinum of Higher Pyre in Arizona desert.