Garden of Innocence Cremation Urn

[Matt Krusen]

The Garden of Innocence is an organization that provides abandoned and unclaimed children with a proper burial, a homemade blanket, and a teddy bear. It makes me sad that such an organization is needed. However, this is certainly a great cause. I myself will be making a few urns and would like to make the rest of the Creek community aware of the organization as well. Check out the youtube video below. Thanks for looking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqlS8iUh9g

I wasn't sure if I should post this here or in the Projects category. Please move if needed. Thanks!

[Art Mann]

I don't quite understand what the blanket and stuffed animal is for.

[Tom Giacomo]

I am sorry to be so cynical but I've seen so many of these thing pass, has anyone actually vetted this organization ?

[Scott Rychnovsky]

Yes, I am cynical too. Here is a news story that is less upbeat about the group:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/does-nonprofit-garden-of-innocence/content?oid=11693756

[Matt Krusen]

Hmm, looks like I may have jumped the gun on this one. Thanks for linking that article Scott. While the premise of the organization seems like a good cause to me, the details do seem a bit strange and extravagant.

[HANK METZ]

Hmm, looks like I may have jumped the gun on this one. Thanks for linking that article Scott. While the premise of the organization seems like a good cause to me, the details do seem a bit strange and extravagant.

You're not to be faulted for anything Matt, the Sacramento N&R article looks like a hatchet job by an Enquirer wannabe, here's more of his journalistic "style":
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/summer-guide-2014-sports/content?oid=13706828 (http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/summer-guide-2014-sports/content?oid=13706828)

And of course, there are always two sides to every story, here's the Gardens':
http://www.gardenofinnocence.org/ourgardens/goisierra.html

[Art Mann]

Even if the organization were absolutely legitimate, I fail to see how it benefits anyone other than the people who are doing the burying and the people who contribute to the cause. It seems to be dedicated to making living people feel good about themselves. The deceased certainly isn't receiving any benefit. I would prefer to devote my resources to helping children who have some chance of having their life improved.

[Jon Prouty]

Even if the organization were absolutely legitimate, I fail to see how it benefits anyone other than the people who are doing the burying and the people who contribute to the cause. It seems to be dedicated to making living people feel good about themselves. The deceased certainly isn't receiving any benefit. I would prefer to devote my resources to helping children who have some chance of having their life improved.

You obviously have never suffered through the pain of losing a child. I find your comment highly insensitive and unnecessary. I will keep my initial comment regarding your post to myself as it was not fit for a family friendly environment.

JP

[Art Mann]

There is a profound difference between a family wanting to honor in a special way a child whom they have lost and total strangers deciding to run a charity to do the same thing. My opinion is that the purpose of funerals and all that goes along with it is to help the survivors to cope with their loss and recover from it. Yes, I have lost close family members and, no, it would not have made me feel any better if strangers came to the funeral or sent flowers or a teddy bear, for example.

[scott vroom]

There is a profound difference between a family wanting to honor in a special way a child whom they have lost and total strangers deciding to run a charity to do the same thing. My opinion is that the purpose of funerals and all that goes along with it is to help the survivors to cope with their loss and recover from it. Yes, I have lost close family members and, no, it would not have made me feel any better if strangers came to the funeral or sent flowers or a teddy bear, for example.

Art, let it go.