Our Mission Statement

* To provide practical support to individuals in making informed end-of- life choices.

* To educate community members about the required end-of-life documents and offer assistance in filling them out.

* To offer mindful and compassionate care for the body of the deceased.

* To assist in planning meaningful memorial ceremonies and rituals involving the disposition of the deceased.

* To establish and maintain a permanent legal open-air cremation site in the Crestone area. (final approval pending)

* To promote 'green' natural burial at the local Crestone Cemetery.

* To train individuals in providing skillful service to others during the final transitions of death.

* To offer information about end-of-life choices to support other communities in developing their own end-of-life organizations.

I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind

And stand now in the spirit's silence free;

Timeless and deathless beyond creature kind,

The centre of my own eternity

Sri Aurobindo