This month, we’ll be featuring a few of the men and women who will be facilitating education sessions at OGR’s 2020 Annual Conference & Solution Center in Asheville, NC at the Omni Grove Park Inn. OGR will be hosting a 3-hour deep dive session on Monday afternoon for those who’d like to explore staying competitive in a cremation market.

For Immediate Release

For Immediate Release

“Where there is deep grief, there was great love.”

This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of the The Independent® magazine.

The complete interview originally appeared in the spring issue of OGR’s quarterly magazine The Independent.

The complete interview originally appeared in the winter issue of OGR’s quarterly magazine The Independent.

This is a profession that changes how we look at life. Each time we are with a family that is experiencing the loss of a loved one, it reminds us to examine how we are living our own life. Socrates wrote, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” He has a point. So I will access my inner philosopher and expound on the virtues of what I have learned about life from working in death care.

This post is an excerpt from an article that was published in the Summer 2019 issue of the The Independent® magazine