Inremember

09/14/2025

09/14/2025

09/14/2025

09/14/2025

GREEN BURIAL – 50 States in 50 Days: 🌱Florida

In Trinity, Florida, just north of Tampa Bay, Heartwood Preserve offers a conservation-first natural cemetery within 41 acres of protected longleaf pine flatwoods and cypress wetlands. This land is both a burial ground and a nature preserve, where memory and ecosystem care are deeply connected.

🌳 Natural Burial, Rooted in Place
At Heartwood, burials are simple and ecological: no embalming, no vaults, and no artificial monuments. Loved ones are laid to rest in biodegradable shrouds or simple wooden caskets, with graves seeded to restore native plants. Markers are small and discreet, blending into the preserve while GPS records ensure every grave is permanently documented.

🌳 Conservation in Every Goodbye
Each burial helps protect Florida’s fragile ecosystems. A conservation easement guarantees the land will remain preserved forever, and stewardship practices like prescribed burns maintain the health of the longleaf pine forest. A portion of every burial supports ongoing land conservation.

🌳 Healing Through Participation
Families may take part in the burial process, placing flowers, helping to lower the body, or covering the grave with soil. Many find comfort in knowing their farewell contributes to the life of the forest around them.

Heartwood Preserve is more than a final resting place, it is a sanctuary of resilience, remembrance, and renewal.

👉 Learn more here:https://heartwoodpreserve.com/natural-burial/
Heartwood Preserve – Conservation Burial Ground
Photo credit to their insta

09/08/2025

Paul Alexander

Paul Alexander, who passed away in 2024 at the age of 78, was one of the last people in the world to live inside an iron lung—a towering, tube-like machine that kept him alive for over 70 years.

At just six years old, Paul contracted polio during the devastating 1952 outbreak in Texas.

The virus paralyzed him from the neck down and left him unable to breathe on his own.

Doctors placed him in an iron lung, telling his parents he might not survive the night.

But Paul defied the odds, beginning a lifelong journey of survival within the humming, steel confines of the machine that would become both his prison and protector.

Despite his physical limitations, Paul lived a life of astonishing courage and determination.

Using a plastic stick held in his mouth, he taught himself to write, eventually earning a law degree and becoming a licensed attorney.

He also authored a memoir, *Three Minutes for a Dog*, typing each word painstakingly with his mouth.

Paul never allowed his condition to define his worth.

Instead, he became a symbol of resilience, dignity, and the power of the human spirit.

Friends and followers from around the world drew inspiration from his story and admired his sharp mind, wit, and unwavering strength.

Paul’s passing marks not just the end of a life, but the closing of a chapter in medical and human history.

His decades spent inside an iron lung are a sobering reminder of the devastating reach of polio, and the miracle of modern vaccines.

But beyond the machine and the diagnosis, Paul Alexander leaves behind a legacy of perseverance and purpose.

His life—brave, difficult, and deeply meaningful—touched thousands, reminding us all that even within the harshest limits, hope, intellect, and humanity can flourish.

09/07/2025

Inremember is a page. And is our service. We help families self-produce Celebrations of Life memorials. We provide the event technology (audio/video and know-how). But it is up to you to connect to all of the guests, friends, colleagues, to share your personal story and the connection of the person not physically present but spiritually present. If you're a host, speaker, or presenter, you are on the stage behind the lectern or podium. You are performing and about to connect to the guests/audience. You are the talent. Here is some good advice you can take with you.

09/07/2025

We treat grief like it's broken.

Like it needs to be fixed, managed, medicated, or hurried along. Like it's a problem to solve instead of a sacred experience to witness.

But grief is exactly what it's supposed to be.

An altered state of consciousness. A holy threshold. A place where the veil between worlds grows thin and we touch something deeper than our everyday awareness.

In grief, time bends. Reality shifts. We feel our loved ones in dreams, hear their voice in songs, catch glimpses of them in crowds. The rational mind says "impossible," but the grieving heart knows better.

Ancient cultures understood this. They created rituals around grief, held space for the sacred disorientation, honored the journey through the underworld of loss. They knew that altered states, whether through ceremony, meditation, or deep grief, open us to truths we can't access any other way.

Your grief is not pathology. It's pilgrimage.

Let it be strange. Let it be sacred. Let it transform you in ways that can't be rushed or reasoned with.

What sacred truths has it revealed?

09/06/2025

The Criel Mound in West Virginia, built in 250–150 BC. Inside the mound, there was 2 skeletons near the top, and 11 at the base, which consisted of a large skeleton at the center surrounded by 10 others arranged in a spoke-like pattern with their feet pointing toward the central skeleton

09/04/2025

Wow.