Death Cafe profile for Mark Talbot
Location: United States
http://www.crestoneendoflife.org/
About Mark Talbot:
I have been working as webmaster and volunteer with the Crestone End of Life Project, in Crestone, Colorado. Our mission is to promote informed end of life choices and support their fulfillment. We work in concert with the Town of Crestone, which has the first Green Burial Council Certified green cemetery in the State of Colorado, and we also operate an open air cremation ceremony site, 1 of only 2 currently operating legally in the United States.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
In addition to the work with the Crestone End of Life Project I am also working with a core of those volunteers to develop an educational outreach non-profit Called Informed Final Choices. This group's mission is to empower individuals, families and groups in making decisions regarding end-of-life choices including, but not limited to, Advance Directives and legal documents required at the time of death; available choices for Disposition of Remains; Home Funeral and Celebration of Life Rituals. Death Café seems to be a very wonderful place and venue in which to build and be a part of the worldwide network of resources that support more open dialog regarding death, and the end of life issues we all face.
Thoughts for sharing:
My heart
Is an unset jewel
upon the tender night
yearning for its dear old friend
The Moon.
When the Nameless One debuts again
Ten thousand faces of my being unfurl wings
And reveal such a radiance inside
I enter a realm divine-
I too being, to so sweetly cast light,
Like a lamp,
Through the streets of this
World
My heart is an unset jewel
Upon existence
Waiting for the Friend's touch.
Tonight
My heart is an unset ruby
Offered bowed and weeping to the Sky.
I am dying in these cold hours
For the resplendent glance of God.
I am dying
Because of a diving remembrance
Of who I really am.
~from The Gift by Hafiz
Contact Mark Talbot
Mark Talbot's posts on the Death Cafe website
With Anna Louise Stewart
Jan. 19, 2014, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (MST)
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Death Café is a very wonderful "container" in which to build and be a part of the worldwide network of resources and support for more open dialog regarding death, and ...