One of our most popular new options for families is through a company called Parting Stone. Parting stone turns ashes from water cremation and fire cremation into beautiful stones you can touch and hold, truly transforming the experience of cremated remains.

What you’ll learn

• The origin of Parting Stone and how you became part of the team and mission 

• How does the solidification process work?

• How many stones generally result from the process and how do they vary in appearance?

• What are the most inspiring things you've seen done with the stones? 

• How do you hope Parting Stone will transform the future of death care?

Special guest

Alexandra Jo (they/them) | Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone

Alexandra Jo (they/them) is the Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone. They hold an MFA in visual art, are a certified celebrant, and are a first-generation deathcare professional with three years of experience creating forward-thinking content and research for the funeral profession. They produce and host the Death Curious podcast and write for many industry publications including Connecting Directors, the NFDA Blog, CANA’s Cremation Logs Blog, and American Cemetery and Cremation magazine. Alexandra also gives continuing education lectures on innovation in the funeral profession at death care conferences around the country, and does peer-support coaching, grief, and relationship mentoring with the Intrepid Therapy Collective.