After my mother the casket was one of the things I obsessed about. I wished for something beautiful that might have helped me to stay more emotionally present. My business partner, Carol Motley, designed the cardboard coffins we sell after her grandmother died and the disconnect was clear between how ‘it is done’ and how her nature loving grandmother had lived. Our cardboard coffins help in both of these ways - far better for the environment and for us emotionally. They make sense and can be decorated in personally-meaningful ways to say good-bye and to help us grapple with grief nonverbally. Mourning Dove Studio has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning News, Al Jazeera America and elsewhere. The Green Burial Council nominated us for a Leadership Award and I was named one of the “Pioneering Women of Natural Deathcare” by American Cemetery and Cremation Magazine.