Life is so precious and fragile, and we hold the upmost respect for all that inhabits earth. We will be burying our son on Tuesday morning in a natural preserve. It will be an all natural shroud burial using a quilt made by his great, great grandmother. The process does not waste the resources as in most contemporary burials and does not introduce toxins. The cemetery environment is habitat for wildlife and native flora and is on a 65+ acre preserve. Our sweet Dryden will be put to rest in a wooded forest adjacent from a gum tree. His stone will be a natural stone found from the preserve and We'll have his birth name in Cyrillic script and his given family name in English. His story will live on and his body will become one with the Earth with intrinsic conservational value. Dryden meant the world to us and we want to give him the gift of the world. He will be forever LOVED!
Please consider adoption. We are never promised tomorrow, and children deserve family. All children deserve to know what love is. We are honored to get to experience watching Dryden blossom and become the boy who escaped his life that was previously confined to 14 years in a crib. He grew in spirit and he grew in love. He made our family whole, and will continue to live on in our hearts and soul.
I am so very sorry for your loss.
ReplyDeleteYour love for him is so beautifully documented in photos and in words. He became a very rich boy the day he discovered that love. My heart aches for you, your husband, your children, his grandparents...indeed for everyone who met and loved him in person...❤️ Praying you all will feel how you are being enveloped by the loving arms of the Holy Comforter.
ReplyDeleteI love this place where he is being laid to rest- it is perfect, too:).
Praying for all who loved this precious boy so well. I'm so thankful your family took the risk and gave him a home. That he passed knowing the love of a family, a love that will never die. Now and forever, he belongs to your family. And praise God he is at perfect peace, enveloped in perfect love.
ReplyDeleteWhat a truly beautiful place to lay Dryden's body to rest. My heart grieves with you and the entire family. He is still deeply loved and you will continue to be in my thoughts and heart, Amanda.
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