A Name That Has Grown With Us

There comes a moment when a vision asks to be named again.

Not because it has changed.

Because it has deepened, matured, and taken root in ways that call for clearer language.

This is that moment for us.

What we have been tending together has evolved. Nothing essential has changed. This is a new chapter, ready to be named.

For years, the Center for Conscious Living & Dying described who we were and what we were holding: a home where people could live and die in community, met in a loving way, with presence, intention, and belonging. The name carried our early vision. It helped plant a seed for something many of us longed for, often quietly, often without words.

As the years unfolded, what was cultivated with care began to take root. Souls arrived to support, to serve, and to receive. Families entrusted us with their loved ones. Volunteers showed up in unexpected numbers, offering hands, hearts, and steadiness. A community formed that knew how to be with death in a loving way.

With the release of The Last Ecstatic Days, we witnessed how a death held in love resonates far beyond our valley, touching hearts and awakening possibilities in places we had never imagined. More people found their way to this work. More conversations opened. A movement began to take shape, grounded in conscious, community-supported death care.

As this collective grew, we noticed something important. Our name was often shortened to initials. Its meaning sometimes became unclear. At the same time, the work itself was becoming clearer than ever.

We listened.

We invited our community into a process of deep listening and shared reflection. Members, volunteers, caregivers, and friends offered names, stories, images, and feelings, expressions of what this service truly means and how it is lived. What emerged was not a single idea imposed from above, rather a resonance that arose gently and unmistakably from within the community itself.

From that listening, a name revealed itself.

Emberlight

An ember carries warmth long after a fire has burned low. It is tended, protected, and shared. Light reveals what is already present. It guides without force or certainty.

Together, Emberlight names the essence of what we hold:

the ember of love we tend together, and the light of awareness that guides us through life, death, and connects us to the mystery.

This name reflects our care model, rooted in love, presence, and service. It embraces death as a natural and sacred part of life. It holds a vision that invites a deeper awakening to what it means to care for one another, especially at life’s most meaningful thresholds.

While our name has evolved, our way of caring has not. We continue to offer the same loving care, grounded in the same values, relationships, and commitments that have always defined this work.

We share this name with gratitude for the community that helped reveal it, for the trust that made this evolution possible, and for the path unfolding ahead.

May Emberlight guide the way as we continue to walk one another home, in a loving way.