This song is not meant to condone suicide. Rather, it is an attempt to empathize with those who struggle with suicidal thoughts, feeling and actions. I wrote and sang this song back in 2004 for a class project in my funeral service program. There’s a video that goes along with it (and was a rad […]
Some of these photos may be disturbing. All of these photos have been sourced either from the internet. 1. This is a needle injector, which is effectively used for mouth closure. We use this to set the features before we embalm. Once the mouth and eyes are closed (see number 2), then we can think […]
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 […]