Cindy Garner is an advance planning facilitator, Life Cycle Celebrant, non-denominational inter-faith minister, and funeral advocate with extensive background in end of life planning.  Cindy's background includes 20+ years experience in healthcare - working with seniors, event planning, sales, marketing and social work.   Helping to pioneer the 'death positive' movement, she coordinated Death Cafe meetings in her community, and continues  to post daily trending articles on the Facebook page DEATH CAFE MEMPHIS.  Also, she is a past Funeral Consumer Alliance board member, end of life doula and home funeral guide in training and soon to be blogger.

When Cindy turned 50, the death of her father and younger sister within a two year period made her realize she needed to get her own "ducks in a row".  This propelled her down an extensive path of research, resource gathering, study and discovery into all things DEATH and advance planning.  Cindy's knowledge and expertise includes traditional and green funerals, family directed funerals, and healing thru ceremony.  Her professional life has involved working with numerous nursing homes and funeral homes, a hospice, and the biologic pharmacy industry as a trainer, admissions, sales and marketing, customer service, social work, and therapeutic recreation.

Cindy's 'mission of heart' is to motivate individuals from all walks of life to gather and organize their personal information, enabling them to determine and communicate their personal wishes to those they love. Her passion is to empower clients with resources and information, helping them make the heart-felt decisions and have the important conversations needed to save friends and family time, money, unnecessary worry, and stress.