First Tuesday: Cascades Natural Burial
When: Tuesday, January 7, at 7pm
Where: Online via Zoom (Register Here)
Free registration required. Don't forget to register at the link above!
A decision facing every one of us (or our loved ones) is what to do with the body we’ve left behind when we die. Conventional burial and cremation have environmental impacts which can be avoided with natural burial. While natural burial provides one last opportunity for us to have lived lightly on the earth, it can also be much more. Please join us to learn about the well-established practice of natural burial nation-wide, and in Washington State. The local volunteers of Cascades Natural Burial will share what they’ve learned about natural burial and the progress they’ve made toward providing this option for the Methow Valley.
This event is free and open to the public. Reach out to Bridger with any questions about the event.
Banner Photo via The Forest Conservation Burial Ground, Ashland, OR
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About Cascades Natural Burial:
Click to learn more at cascadesnaturalburial.org.
About the Speakers:
Betsy Cushman was the founding executive director of Methow Recycles and feels most alive when outdoors. She is working as one of a small but committed group of volunteers with Cascades Natural Burial because she can’t imagine her final contribution to the earth being anything but the greenest option available.
Jodie Buller is the Cemetery Director at White Eagle Memorial Preserve at Ekone Ranch - part of Sacred Earth Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit land stewardship organization that holds summer camps for kids, land based programs, and a conservation burial ground outside of Goldendale, WA. She is a co-founder and acting secretary with the Conservation Burial Alliance, and part of a team that created community-directed death care resource websites for Washington and Oregon.
Glenn Graves and Patrick Delfeld from River Valley Funeral Home in Okanogan are both 5th Generation Okanogan County and Colville Indian Reservation residents. Glenn has been a funeral director at River Valley for the last 20 years and built the first local crematorium in the county. Patrick is a director at River Valley specializing in monument design, Veteran's services, and is a Marine Corps combat veteran. Glenn and Pat have been friends since junior high and had the opportunity to buy the funeral home and cemetery in Okanogan a few years ago. They have spent the last few years remodeling it and adding a modern touch to a business that had not been updated since the late 1960s.