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2/7/2018

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​When planning your end of life plan, you might want to include personal information for your obituary.  This aspect of planning might have an unexpected impact on how you live or view your life once you begin thinking about what information you might want to include.  You might include the name and birth and death dates of your mother and father.  You might also include your date of birth.  As it stands, this basic information might sound sterile.  You might want to produce a more personal document. What about your life story? What about who you are?  You might next begin by considering what kinds of other things you might want to have people remember about you.  Consider looking at some achievements or important moments in your life you would want people to know about you.  Death planning can be so heavy.  You look squarely at your life and acknowledge that the you as we know you will one day no longer be. That is a huge shift in thinking and often once you acknowledge this, and begin planning your life will take on a more focused attitude. You might see your life more clearly and begin doing those things you have put off doing. Writing your obituary or providing information for your obituary is an interesting exercise.  All it takes is you sitting down with a pen and paper or like me a laptop and begin to tell the story.  If telling a story is too much, make a list of what you want remembered of you.  There is no wrong way to do this.  This process might help focus on what you find most important and you might see a pattern emerge about yourself.  This process might just give you more insight into your daily life and your inner workings.  As the other aspects of end of life planning, this process should enhance your life, not detract from it. Remember this is about things you love and your achievements.  These things do not necessarily have to be worldly achievements; they just have to be those things you feel most proud of or things that have given you great joy.  Just begin.  
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    Caroline Vuyadinov


    I graduated from St. Vladamir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York with a Master of Divinity.  I trained as a chaplain following graduation and worked with a wide variety of people. 

    When I moved to Canada, I began work in a women's halfway house in Hamilton, Ontario which worked with women in conflict with the law on a federal level.  I became the program manager and  loved working alongside the women, creating their plans for their reintegration back to the community.  I also worked as a liaison with the parole board, parole officers and other community service providers.

    Upon my return to the United States, I worked in the Death Care Industry as a Family Service Counselor, which lead me to become a green burial advocate. I co-founded Midwest Green Burial Society with Juliann Salinas. I speak  to community groups and have developed practical seminars for a variety of audiences.  I have been interviewed on a national podcast and was featured on a WGN spot dealing with green burial. 

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