Golden Soul Circus presents
For anyone ready to say goodbye to an old version of themselves.
Hospice nurses Brad and Cass Burns help families say what matters most — while there's still time — in a ceremony that's equal parts sacred and silly.
This is ceremony, not therapy.
THE SHOW
A facilitated three-act ceremony. No forced engagement. No required interaction. Everyone chooses how far in they go.
THE GIFT Being truly seen, before it's too late to receive it.
THE GIFT Being challenged by people who love you enough to bother.
THE GIFT Saying the unsayable, while there's still time.
Life gives us enough grief. We can give grace.
WHO WE ARE
Golden Soul Circus was founded by hospice nurses who have been at the bedside for hundreds of deaths — the beautiful ones and the devastating ones.
Hospice nurse Co-founder Licensed 2016
Years of med/surg, ICU, float pool, COVID, and wound care before finding his way to hospice. Raised on singing telegrams and trained in Shakespearean stage acting, Brad brings improv, music, and movement into the hardest conversations — so families can find a little relief and smile awhile.
Hospice nurse Co-founder Licensed 2017
Cass has most recently served patients of earth in end-of-life (EOL) care. After a journey through all categories of ICU nursing, including burn, trauma, covid, and a range of medical and surgical units, Cass left the critical care setting for more holistic and intimate care in integrative wellness and home hospice nursing. In more than 10 years of patient and community care, first as a care partner and now in her ninth year as a nurse, Cass has witnessed the full spectrum of quality lives and deaths. She is honored to share those findings in a welcoming and joyful manner to open minds and hearts around health and wellness, life and death.
"We're all nurses — just some of us are registered."
Mock (ur) Funeral sessions are ceremony and education, not medical care. During a session, Brad and Cass are your hosts, not your nurses.
BOOK
Full-price sessions help fund free and reduced-price sessions for families who can't pay full rate.
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Find Your Words helps you and each guest write what you want to say in the Toast, Roast and Prost. Save this link and share it with your guests. We'll include it in our reply, too.
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GIVE
Some families need this most and can afford it least. Give any amount online, or tell us you'd like to fund a whole session and we'll reach out.