Amelia Capilongo loads up a body from the back freezer to be transferred to the embalming table March 1, 2025 in Fairfax, Virginia. Carewell Cremations, founded in 2019 by Amelia, is a family run crematorium that has been operating since 2024. The idea to form the business occurred shortly after the death of her grandmother as when going through the funeral home process, Amelia and her mother found themselves facing greed and negligence. Covid-19 would require the business to be shelved, but later in 2021 the unexpected death of Amelia's brother Eddie would reignite her drive to open.“When I look around in the world, I feel kind of lonely. Because I'm like, I understand death in a way that people have no idea. No idea. And not even from like working around dead bodies, but from loss of my brother. He was 39, just walked out the front door, fell over, died. We have no real reason why it happened. Maybe related to epilepsy, but they basically put sudden death. And that was like, I felt like someone put a bullet in my heart.”