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Love These Creative Urns from Mexico!
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Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert
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Dateline: Albuquerque, NM
Thursday, May 10, 2018

 
Sacbe Urns

Sacbe Urns

Bongo Pet Urn

Bongo Pet Urn

With the growing U.S. cremation rate, there’s a growing market for creative urns to hold cremated remains. Sacbé Urns from Mexico brought a host of their handmade urns for people and pets to the 2018 convention and expo of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association.

In the video below, Daniel Aguilar, North America Director for Sacbé, shows the wide range of colorful urns in styles that include hand-painted ceramics, mosaic glass, wooden boxes of varying shapes and finishes, keepsake urns, and pet urns made in ceramic, resin, and marble resin materials.

“We started creating these urns because every one of us are unique, so every one of us needs to have a unique urn,” said Aguilar. “Every one of our urns are handcrafted individually.”

Sacbe Pet Urns

Sacbe Pet Urns

Sacbé has been making urns in Mexico for eight years, and have worked with 250 funeral homes there. Their presence at ICCFA was their first time to present their work to U.S. funeral directors.

“We believe that pets are part of the family too,” said Aguilar. Their line of creative pet urns include colorful stars, dog and bone shapes, and paw prints. Their “Bongo” pet urn is a cute ceramic shape that holds cremated remains through a hole the bottom, with a planter in the top.

The word sacbé means a path to walk through – as in, the path we walk through from life to death. Learn more at www.Sacbe.online.

Gail Rubin, CT, is author and host of the award-winning book and television series, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die, Hail and Farewell: Cremation Ceremonies, Templates and Tips, and KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die.

Rubin is a Certified Thanatologist (that's a death educator) and a popular speaker who uses humor and films to get the end-of-life and funeral planning conversation started. She "knocked 'em dead" with her TEDx talk, A Good Goodbye. She provides continuing education credit classes for attorneys, doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, financial planners, funeral directors and other professionals. She's a Certified Funeral Celebrant and funeral planning consultant who has been interviewed in national and local print, broadcast and online media.

Known as The Doyenne of Death®, she is the event coordinator of the Before I Die ABQ Festival. She also hosts A Good Goodbye Internet radio show and produces Mortality Minute radio and online video spots. Her YouTube Channel features more than 400 videos!

Rubin is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, Toastmasters International and the National Speakers Association New Mexico Chapter. Her speaking profile is available at eSpeakers.com.

Gail Rubin has been interviewed about funeral planning issues in national and local broadcast, print and online media. Outlets include The Huffington Post, Money Magazine, Kiplinger, CBS Radio News, WGN-TV,  and local affiliates for NPR, PBS, FOX, ABC-TV, CBS-TV and NBC-TV.

Sign up for a free planning form and occasional informative newsletter at her website, AGoodGoodbye.com.

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