With Love

Welcome to With Love, an end-of-life planning company that offers a new take on traditional celebrations. We are a death positive business that is committed to demystifying death. We’re happy to help you plan any event, but we specialize in creating celebrations of life with a death positive spin. Let’s face it, we all know how this eventually ends (hopefully later than sooner). We might as well plan, prepare, and create an event that celebrates our legacy. 

With Love is based out of St. Louis, MO but we are available to plan your end of life event where ever it may be. Near or far we will be there on the day of your event to support your needs. 

In addition to events, With Love can be your Death Doula (End-of-Life Doula). With Love provides many doula related services such as death cleaning, pre-planning arrangements, sitting vigil, and more.

Have more questions about what we are all about?

Please feel free to call us at (303) 598 – 9284 or send us an email at  lauren@withlove.events to let us know how we can be a part of your life and death events.

ABOUT LAUREN

Hello There! I’m Lauren Ponder and I’m passionate about creating a death positive mindset, end-of-life planning, and celebrating legacy. When I was faced with assisting in planning my mom’s funeral in 2016, it was a blur due to overwhelming grief. It occurred to me then that a person who could do the organization for us would have been well worth the money during that difficult week.  Out of that grief, I started With Love. My primary focus was to assist in the celebration of life. I have always loved planning events and been called to this unique space. 

As With Love continues to grow and inspire me, I have added End-of-Life Doula (Death Doula) to my list of certifications. Death is a topic many people have difficulty discussing and though no one is immune to the emotions of facing death, I welcome the discussion. I want to help families navigate these big discussion and create a plan that helps them celebrate a life beautifully lived. I am available to guide families through many aspect of the death and dying process that we will experience many times throughout life.

I’ve founded the St. Louis Death Positive Collective to put positive change in motion regarding death and dying. The St. Louis Death Positive Collective, along with valued partners produced St. Louis’ first ever death positive festival. Last Call: And End of Life Festival made it’s grand debut October 2022 at the beautiful Bellefontaine Cemetery. And we are excited to expand the festival for 2023!