The Promethium advances of medical science Watch from the sidelines as deteriorating minds Are rendered to a nascent infancy where Memory Words And person Fade backwards into nothing. If you give something away you don’t lose it. “Nothing can be done” your doctor sheepishly admits “Your time is slowly fading” Your questions like, […]
Yes, Microsoft has finally decided to phase out Internet Explorer. But … I really think this should be celebrated. We should celebrate because the murder rate should drastically drop as the lack of slow uploads will quell our murderous intentions: The weapon of mass crashing has been disarmed … We will no longer be put in […]
Today’s post is an excerpt from The Odd Index by Stephen Spignesi and is being posted with Stephen’s permission: 1. The dead body arrives at the morgue. 2. The body’s identity is confirmed, assigned an identification number, and given a toe tag, which is a cardboard ticket with all of the corpse’s pertinent information written on […]
Today’s guest post is written by NYC Funeral Director Amy Cunningham: It seems fitting to reveal on Saint Patrick’s Day that the most common Google query that reliably draws readers to “The Inspired Funeral” day after day, week after week, is “Irish Funeral Music.” The last Irish funeral music post I wrote, garnered me tens-of-thousands of […]
In the high mountains of Tibet, where trees don’t grow, natural resources scarce, and the land is harsh, Tibetan Buddhists do not bury their dead, nor waste precious resources cremating the body. From dust to dust, flesh to flesh, nothing is wasted. Human body flesh makes precious food for the vultures. Tibetan Buddhists feed […]