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What are your wishes after you die ? Do your loved ones know what YOU’D like to have done with your remains ?

ARE YOU CURIOUS ??? MAYBE IT IS TIME to have THE TALK THAT NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT ….
🌲⚰️ 🌲 GREEN BURIALS 🌲⚰️🌲 πŸ€”
What are your wishes after you die ? Do your loved ones know what YOU’D like to have done with your remains ?
Even if all the ” arrangements ” have been taken care of for when the time comes , there is always something to learn ..
πŸ’ what leaches into the soil from the breakdown of fancy coffins ? Being embalmed ?
πŸ’ what are the byproducts when one is cremated ?
πŸ’ how much of our decisions of what happens to our ” shell ” is based on what funeral homes have led us to believe ?

Please come and listen to a talk from Lee Webster :πŸπŸ‚πŸŒΏ
Lee Webster is an internationally recognized writer, educator, and public speaker on funeral reform. She has served in major leadership positions of the Green Burial Council, Conservation Burial Alliance, National Home Funeral Alliance, National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, and is the director of NH and VT Funeral Resources & Education. She is author of several home funeral and green burial books, and instructor in adult ed, universities, mortuary schools, and Redesigning the End.com classes.

WHEN : September 25th , 2024 Wednesday evening at 6:00 pm
WHERE : Lyme Congregational Church

πŸͺ¦πŸπŸ‚ Please note that this talk is sponsored by the Community Nurses of Lyme as well as the Health Ministry Team of The Lyme
Congregational Church . This program is for the knowledge and learning of all those that are interested in this topic and by no means based on
influencing or changing one’s own wishes or beliefs after death πŸͺ¦πŸπŸ‚

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