I’ve often heard it said that we fear dying more than we fear death. Death takes little time, but dying … it’s unpredictable and unfamiliar and can take months and years. I think we can quell our fear of dying, but not until we recognize why we fear dying. Here are five reasons we […]
If you want the details on how you can turn your face into an urn, you can click here. Otherwise, just enjoy these four slightly creepy but neat personalized urns from Cremation Solutions. 1. This one’s my favorite …. 2. And who wouldn’t want to put their ashes in Barack Obama’s head? 3. I think […]
I’m okay with people who divinize political power. I used to be one. After reading my fair share of classic and modern political philosophy, I became disillusioned and lost my faith in the power of Politics. I stay up-to-date on the debates and I vote according to my conscious, but I do so with vapidity. I […]
There’s a difference between burnout and compassion fatigue. Burnout in the workplace is a more general term that relates to anybody in a stressful situation, while compassion fatigue is a phenomena that specifically relates to those of us who are professional caregivers. Being that funeral directors are susceptible to compassion fatigue AND have an uncontrolled work environment, […]
Over the past couple months, I’ve been contemplating why the West (America, Europe, etc.) has so much aversion to death, while other — less “developed — cultures see death as less alien. I’ve come up with two major reasons: One. Modernity. Our modern world takes death care away from families and puts it in the hands of […]