The recording of "Conservation Burial: Our Commitment to the Earth" with Anna Jordan is now available on Skagit Land Trust's YouTube channel.
More About the Talk:
There are many decisions to be made around death. Who will make them for you? Local funeral director Anna Jordan shares information that can help you make educated, intentional decisions that align with your personal preferences. Anna discusses the environmental and cultural implications of the available choices for body “disposition” – including conventional burial, cremation, aqua-mation, terramation, natural burial, and more.
More About the Speaker:
Anna Jordan is an artist, celebrant, funeral director, and pre-planning specialist, as well as a board member of the National Home Funeral Alliance. Anna hails from Vermont but has loved living in the Pacific Northwest since 2020. She lives in Everett, but she has chosen to pursue her passion for death care at Kern Funeral Home in Mout Vernon because it is one of the few remaining family-owned funeral homes in the I-5 corridor. Anna is drawn to the natural world and the way the cycle of life -- including death -- is demonstrated in the mossy humus-rich PNW rainforests and coastal lands. Preserving these wild places for the continued renewal of the biome is of the utmost importance to her. Preserving land, while healing our relationship with death and nature, motivates Anna's efforts to promote conservation burial grounds in the region, including the Skagit Valley.