Resources

Recommended Local Businesses & Vendors (Portland, OR & the Pacific Northwest)


The Heartwood Collective - Jennifer Tadjedin, death doula, offers more than just end-of-life doula services.  She provides advance directive counseling and planning, life file creation, end of life organization, healthcare advocacy and companionship during times of grief and loss.  


Generations Estate Law, LLC - Rachel Oh, attorney, embraces a holistic approach to her law practice, starting with her belief that estate planning is much more than making provisions for the legal transfer of assets after a death.  She helps her clients navigate a wide range of issues relating to wills and trusts, including guardianship for young children, family protection strategies and value-based estate planning.  


Page Elliott Design - Gorgeous flowers in all shapes and sizes.   As Page puts it, "To me, floral and event design is like breathing, like floating on my back in the river, staring at the sky. It’s happiness."


Recompose: Human Composting | Ecological Death Care - Recompose is a Seattle-based, full service funeral home that specializes in human composting; that is, using the principles of nature to transform our dead into soil.  Recompose is open to out of state clients and ensures respectful, empathetic service from the time of death through the body’s transformation into soil. 

Living Funerals in the News

'Living funerals are a growing trend, and more than half of young adults would have one.'  Today's Will & Probates (UK Magazine), August 2024.


'Nobody Likes Dealing with Death—Until They Attend One of Amy Pickard’s Humorous ‘Good To Go!’ Parties'  Success Magazine, April 2024.


"Being mortal inspired me." Singapore cancer patient hosted living funeral for loved ones & caregivers prior to passing.  Mothership, February 2024.


'Wouldn't it be better to hear your own eulogies?'  Well+Good Magazine, February 2024.


I didn’t realise I was so loved’: the people hosting their own ‘living funerals.’  The Guardian, January 2024


'How A Living Wake Could Just Be the Future of Celebrating Life.'  Life Lovers Magazine, July 2023.