Experiences with Death: Morgan

Experiences with Death is a new series we are hosting on the Elemental blog, featuring guest posts on grieving, coping with loss, and why conversations on death matter. This edition is written by Morgan Woroner, social media consultant for Elemental.  Whenever I tell...

Part of the Order

What does it mean to be part of a death movement? It isn’t something that I think about much in my day-to-day dealings with families. It isn’t until I’m reminded by the larger milestones in the development of The Movement that I’m aware of the fact that I am part of...

Funeral Ritual

Like many posts, this one is borne out of some interactions with a few families I’ve had over the past couple of months and it’s something that I think we ought to address again because of its importance. I implore you to spread this far and wide as it is part...

Starting a business

A dear friend of mine who has many years of experience in high level C-Suite management for international corporations, recently started an amazing, and ambitious project.  He started a company called Trendalo which tailors (ba-dum-pun) very specific clothing searches...

Holidays after a Death

Before mom died earlier this year, we were asked by the hospital staff if she wanted to be parted out for donation. I would imagine it was both the cancer and the chemo that coupled to make her a less than adequate donor for anything, but SightLife did want her...