If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you’ll know that I believe in Green Burial for both sustainability and philosophical reasons. One of the philosophical reasons is that it allows family and friends to touch death more intimately by taking the funeral and burial responsibility away from the “professionals” (me) and placing […]
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Reddit, it is a very active community-run social network. Users submit content and other users interact with said content. On Sunday, a father asked this of the Reddit community: Here is the original photo: Here is Reddit’s beautiful response: Mr Steffel concluded (the […]
Today’s guest post is by Lelial Thibodeau: 10. A funeral director knows how to stretch a dollar so far beyond capacity that extreme couponers would be seething with envy. 9. Funeral directors can get any stain out of any fabric. 8. Funeral directors understand the importance of paperwork. In triplicate. And filling it out is just […]
There are a couple reasons funeral directors don’t tell their stories. One, it takes a lot of tact to narrate funeral experiences that are so very personal, so sensitive and so interconnected. Two, the stories are often too complex to tell. We sit at the hub of multiple narratives – the deceased’s story, the family’s […]
The Frenchmen Damiens attempted to assassinate King Louis XV, inflicting, however, only a slight dagger wound. He was, of course, condemned to death … albeit a very, very bad death. From Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: ***This account of Damien’s death — to say the least — is very disturbing.*** On 1 March 1757 Damiens the regicide was condemned “to […]