One. Over 100 cyclists show up for a cyclists’ funeral. Two. An Ohio man’s family is fulfilling his dying wish — to be buried astride his beloved Harley-Davidson motorcycle encased in a see-through casket.But it hasn’t been easy. The project required an extra-large cemetery plot to accommodate a Plexiglas casket for Billy Standley and […]
Today’s guest post is written by John Davis: Dementia is a lost-ness, a wild unknowing, an uncomprehending path that leads nowhere and means nothing. It does not easily lend itself to sentimentality or imagined goodness. It is stark and haunting. The distance and isolation that falls over a family is inescapable, as is […]
STORY NUMBER 1: FUNERAL FIGHT A fight broke out during a funeral at a Phoenix church after a friend of the departed punched a man who had reportedly been fighting with the deceased before he died. Phoenix police said the fight broke out Friday afternoon at St. John’s Institutional Baptist Church, when the unidentified friend […]