A Fresh Approach to a Traditional Model
Epilog is a 100% woman owned and operated, collaborative, client-centric, ethically and socially responsible company. Our team values integrity, trust, authenticity, and compassion.
We Value...
Personalization
It’s your choice. We take the time to learn about the person, and endeavor to facilitate and enable their wishes and choices. Our goal is to help each family have the experience that is most meaningful for them – and that best reflects the person who has died. Epilog listens to what each family wants and respects their diverse wishes, traditions, lifestyles – it’s not about “our way”!
Creativity
We encourage creative ways to acknowledge and celebrate the lives of people. Epilog respects faith-based choices as well as the wishes of those with a range of spiritual or secular views and beliefs. We strive to fulfill each family’s unique goals, from a simple home-based celebration of life to a formal faith-based funeral ritual in a church.
Environmental Sustainability
We are enthusiasts of natural (green) burial and we recognize there are many shades of green. We strive to be as green as possible in everything we do and we gently encourage others to do the same (while respecting personal choices).
Community Learning
Epilog participates in community activities and offers presentations and courses to support and normalize conversations about death. We pay special attention to children who may be having their first experience of a death of someone in their family.
Compassion and Well-being
Death is an emotional experience and grief is natural. We serve the families and friends of those who have died with care, before and after a death has happened. Our work is emotional for us too, and we feel it deeply. Epilog takes care to ensure that our team members have the time and support to ensure care of their physical and emotional well-being.
Integrity
Honesty, fairness and transparency are foundations of our work and the way we serve our clients with kindness and empathy.
What Makes Us Different
- First deathcare service in Canada focused only on natural burial, ecologically sensitive services and support for home-based funerals and celebrations of life
- First 100% women owned and operated deathcare service in NS
- First Community Interest Company (CIC), or similar structure, with a focus on social purpose and supporting community, in the deathcare sector in Canada
- First B Corp in deathcare sector in Canada
- First deathcare service in Canada to have 4 end-of-life doulas (with certificates from Douglas College) on the team as integrated support for families
- First deathcare service in Atlantic Canada that uses soil additives with all cremated remains to neutralize damaging effects on soil
- First deathcare service of its kind with sliding scale fees for our services in North America
- First deathcare service in NS that does NOT offer embalming
- First deathcare service that offers ONLY biodegradable caskets and urns
Provincially Regulated
We are licensed by the province of Nova Scotia, which means that we adhere to, and are bound by the provisions of several Acts and associated Regulations:
A Higher Standard
WE ARE A COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY (CIC)
Epilog is proud to be a Community Interest Company. That means we have chosen to register our company as
an organization that is mandated to re-invest 60% of our profits back into local communities, with the aim of reducing
barriers to sustainable economic development.
WE ARE B CORP CERTIFIED
B Corp Certification is a designation that
a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency on factors from
employee benefits and charitable giving to supply chain practices and input materials.
Certifications
Losing someone you love is never easy. Epilog is here to help guide you and your family through this difficult time.