Informed Final Choices 2015 Accomplishments

Informed Final Choices 2015 highlights:

• Completed all goals outlined in The Metabolic Studio/Annenberg Foundation 2014 Grant and submitted Final Report
• Received Saguache County Sales Tax Grant ($1500) to provide materials, information, events and workshops to residents of greater Saguache County
• Sponsored two (2) Death Café’s, attended by more than 55 people
• Held two (2) Registration Parties, attended by more than 75 people
• Sponsored the premiere screening of Adam Sekular’s documentary “Open Air”
• Featured in High Country News photo essay by Taylor McIntosh
• Featured in The New Yorker magazine (November 30,2015)
• Presented at the DEATH OK Conference, Portland, Oregon (October 2015)
• Published full page information sheet in the Crestone Eagle identifying the services offered by Crestone End of Life Project and Informed Final Choices
• Hosted Caitlin Doughty, founder of Undertaking LA, Mortician and author ; Middle School students from Evergreen Montessori; visitors from Australia doing a study on community response to death and disposition
• Provided information and materials on Advance Directives and End of Life Choices to a Saguache women’s group
• Responded to more than 100 queries from throughout the US regarding end of life issues
• Currently assisting three groups to establish legal alternative disposition sites in Arizona, Maine and Arkansas