On May 26th of this year Uribe “Meme” Garza died.  At one point in his life, “Meme” weighed 1,230 pounds.  A year ago, I helped remove the deceased body of a man who weighed 600 pounds.  It took four of us to move him thirty feet from his bed to our hearse.   A couple years […]

As someone who is continually confronted with death, I’m often prompted to think about how I will approach death when it stares me in the face … when I’m actively dying. Will I face death with a good attitude? Will I spiral into a pit of depression? Will I experience an existential crisis or will […]

So this happened: CINCINNATI — Two people were injured in a crash Wednesday afternoon involving a hearse in a funeral procession at Colerain Avenue and Banning Road. Hamilton County dispatch said the driver of the hearse and a Catholic priest were injured around 1 p.m. The hearse owned by Dalbert, Woodruff & Isenogle funeral home […]

I’ll be honest.  It took me like six minutes to find all six things.  I suck at these games.  Grrrrr. Although, in my defense, pizza belongs at every event … so I just assumed that pizza was a natural part of Grandma’s funeral.  I mean, shouldn’t pizza be at every funeral?