Darren Crouch, President and CEO of Passages International, talks to Before I Die New Mexico Festival participants about consumer trends toward making funerals more eco-friendly. Since 1999, Passages has provided biodegradable, sustainable and eco-friendly funeral products to funeral homes in the U.S. and internationally. Passages hosted the first day of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival at their headquarters in Albuquerque, NM.
Watch the video to learn about:
- Changes in funeral consumer preferences.
- The growing interest in green burial.
- The challenges cremation poses and greener cremation alternatives.
- Fair Trade practices and Green Burial Council certification.
- Biodegradable urns and scatter tubes.
- Creating meaningful memorial experiences.
- Passages’ Etern.Life geotagging program for mapping placements and memorials for cremated remains.
About the Before I Die New Mexico Festival
The 2024 Before I Die New Mexico Festival took place November 1-4 at a different location each day in Albuquerque, NM. The festival features entertaining and educational elements that get people to discuss end-of-life issues and plan ahead. Most sessions are being posted on YouTube and available at the video page on the festival website, www.BeforeIDieFestivals.com. Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, is the coordinator of the festival.
Each day of the Festival had a theme:
- November 1 – Eco-Friendly Funerals
- November 2 – Hospice 101 and MAID (Medical Aid In Dying)
- November 3 – Planning for the Inevitable
- November 4 – Unexpected Deaths
View the full schedule of events to see which sessions and topics were carried on Zoom. They will become available as YouTube videos. Video of the 2024 festival preview event, Millennial Morticians with ABQ Brews: Death Doula Edition, is also currently available.
Thank You to Before I Die Festival Sponsors
The Before I Die New Mexico Festival is made possible by the support of:
- A Good Goodbye: https://agoodgoodbye.com/
- Bernalillo County Indigent Program: https://www.bernco.gov/general-services/about-the-program/
- Better Place Forests: https://betterplaceforests.com/
- Bosque Trails Hospice: https://bosquetrailshospice.com/
- Conscious Crossroads End-of-Life Services: https://deathdouladanielle.com/
- Death Doula Professionals: https://deathdoulaprofessionals.com/
- End of Life Options New Mexico: https://endoflifeoptionsnm.org/
- French Funerals & Cremations: https://frenchfunerals.com/
- Keeper Memorials: https://mykeeper.com/
- Passages International: https://www.passagesinternational.com/
