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