For most people, planning for death isn’t their choice way of spending an afternoon. Most people avoid the thought altogether, until they get older and accept death as just another part of life. As most people know, your death doesn’t only affect you; it affects everyone that you surround yourself with, and it’s important that […]
Last night Lady Gaga showed up to the VMAs looking like Morticia Adams. And seeing Gaga all deathed out reminded me of a post I wrote a year or two ago called, “Lady Gaga and Jesus.” ***** When you set up a twitter account, you’re supposed to give a brief description of yourself that’s viewable […]
There are two ways you can look at death as being pornographic. In the one sense, pornography is representative of something taboo. In the Victorian era sex was a taboo subject. Today, as some have argued, death is the new taboo … a taboo that we make a huge amount of effort to deny. Anthropologist […]
A facebook and real life friend posted this in his status yesterday. It was so good that I wanted to share it with you. If you know someone who is grieving, this is probably how they want you to treat them: Dear Friend, Please be patient with me; I need to grieve in my own way and […]
A couple years ago we had a late night house call. We drove up to the house, and an uncle came outside to meet us, explaining the situation we were about to enter. “You guys are here for my niece, Sara. She’s 16 years old. Been fighting cancer for four years. She’s in the living […]