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When was the last time you went to a funeral, be it at a religious establishment or a funeral home, and had it be so unique that you could remember the details years later, it was so distinct? For the most part, if you remove the photo at the front, these celebrations of life have little if any of the resonance of the person whose life is being celebrated. Like choosing off a menu that is limited to minimalist options, the opportunity to have a celebration of life reflect the

For most of my life, and even more so in the years since I started working as a death doula, Grief has almost always been associated with sadness. Occasional anger, on rare occasions, apathy or numbness. And if that is what Grief is, then of course it would make sense that people would absolutely want to get "over it" as soon as possible. No one wants to feel those things any longer than they "have" to. But is Grief really a synonym for sadness? An emotion that also sometimes