Be they morticians, pathologists, funeral house workers or gravediggers – people who deal with the dead have always been assumed to be interesting, because, well, they deal with the dead. Movies and books always seem to present workers in those professions as outright creepy. They play around with the bodies of the deceased. looking at something like this everyday can make anyone look creepy.
This is the very reason why I don’t usually mention that I am a Cremation Artist. People don’t want to think about death.The idea of using human remains to create art can be super creepy to some people.
In the past a Post-Mortem Photographer would memorialized your loved one in an artist photograph. Back in the Victorian ages it was common to have a family portrait taken when someone in the family died. Families who wanted to remember their loved ones after they had passed did so with a family “Death Photo”.
Today People find it just down right creepy by the thought of looking at a photo of their loved one after death as a way to remember them. Most people don’t even want to view the body, Fearful of death and afraid that the image will be forever imprinted into their minds.
Let’s just face it death creeps people out. Before I started doing Cremation Art I would have agreed. Now that I have a much deeper understanding of death and the process of cremation and burial. The job of the mortician and funeral director is really much more beautiful than anyone knows.
This person will be the last person to touch your loved ones body. Preparing them for the souls journey home. Every detail from funeral director to cremator is genuinely the most honorable job of the living besides hospice care nurses. Like spirit guides they comfort the living and honor the dead. It really is so very beautiful. There is nothing creepy about honoring someone’s loved one. All of this being a job that not everyone can do.
Even though it appears creepy, in all reality I think most people are thankful that there are people out there that can do this job. Someone willing to wash your loved ones face for the last time. Paying attention to every detail to help make the families experience with grief and loss easier. This is the reason that I became a Cremation Artist. Not everyone can turn human remains into a work of art. Not everyone can be a spirit guide or “Capture the Last Breath”.
People are so fearful of death. And I don’t think that society is going to change views about the “creepy mortician” or the “Creepy Cremation Artist” any time soon with all the great scary zombie movies out there. Such a burden to bare and no one giving them any credit for being the one who is most likely to be bitten and turned into a zombie first.

Read how I “Capture the Last Breath”

Capturing Carbon Energy and The Last Breath. Carbon Energy at it’s essence. We are all made from this. Energy never dies, it simply transforms.
Joele Williams

Imagine a beautiful wind chime or sun catcher that the sun light shines through the ashes. Imagine a wonderful glass sculpture on your mantle of an ocean wave with the cremation ashes in the crest. Imagine a wonderful candle you can light that illuminates the ashes of your loved one inside the glass. Cremation memorial art is not just jewelry anymore.

I create one-of-a-kind works of art and jewelry that Infuses your loved one forever into glass. Everything I make is a special design. I work one on one with you to create a memorial that fits your loved one.Placing your loved ones, cremation ashes into glass is a beautiful, respectful, and loving way to show your appreciation and remembrance for the life that brought you so much joy. A glass cremation keepsake is the perfect way to show your love and remembrance and can be handed down from generation to generation

Connecting with spirits through music : The Universal Language

Do you think it’s possible to connect to spirits? Could music act as a voice for the dead? Maybe in playing music from their time period or something they loved to listen to when they were alive you can open some kind of a door way. Or If we “are energy” could it be the electrical currents that the music is traveling through that gives them the perfect way to connect to us?

Many Native American traditions use music to create energy/power/magic as part of connecting with spirits. Even certain churches used to sing to draw in the Holy Spirit and some people believe you can connect to a Spirit Guide using music. Music is often even used to connect to your inner spirit to carry you to enlightenment. And has been used in paranormal experiments to connect with the dead.

The five senses are important to the physical but the ability for souls to move material items is incredible. Some people are more in tune with what they hear and see. I think not only is it possible to connect through music but I have done this myself during cremation ash infusions. While infusing cremation ashes into glass art. Music is something I use during the process to feel connected to the person I am honoring. I think it could draw them to us and I have experienced this “musical” phenomenon twice now.

Songs come on the radio that have meaning. Radios turn on by themselves. Playlists playing I never touched with songs that you know deep in your soul were like words from the departed. These things are not coincidences. Maybe music is the universal language and with it you can open some doorway.

Native American Indians believed you could squint your eyes and watch the souls leave the body. This “energy” is traveling to the spirit world. The soul is energy at it’s essence. We are all made from this. Energy never dies, it simply transforms. Energy that is here- there and everywhere. We are always in connection with this energy unknowingly. Why couldn’t it be that “energy” can connect to this world with music being the perfect conduit to speak for the dead?

Capturing Carbon Energy and The Last Breath. Carbon Energy at it’s essence. We are all made from this. Energy never dies, it simply transforms.
Joele Williams