Today’s guest post is written by Matt and Cheri Appling: I’ve been to plenty of funerals. I’ve even conducted a couple. We all eventually wind up at a funeral. Maybe it’s for a long-lived relative. Sometimes it’s a tragically unforeseen death. We think that a funeral is a mandatory event on the way to the hereafter, […]

Kenny and Helen Felumlee were introduced when they were teenagers – by Kenny’s ex-girlfried. After dating for two years, the couple decided to get married. Immediately. Even though Kenny was only two days shy of his 21st birthday – the legal age for men in Ohio at the time – the pair drove to Kentucky […]

Via AOL: According to WCBS, Brooklyn native Nequia Webb-Davidson was murdered by her husband last year, and a traumatic nightmare during the funeral has made her family feel like “she’s been murdered twice.” According to a lawsuit filed against the J Foster phillips Funeral Home, Webb-Davidson’s casket did not fit in the grave, and when […]

FYI. Luv.  Twu luv.    The ever pragmatic Valentine’s Day gift.   The even more pragmatic (and guaranteed to warm her heart) Valentine’s Gift.   Nancy is bad. Apparently this surprise-your-loved-one-with-funeral-stuff is a theme? Nope.   This is the card I wish my son handed out to his classmates. If Arthur and Katherine were alive […]

Today’s guest post is written by Barbara Kemmis, the executive director of the Cremation Association of North America located in Wheeling, Illinois. One morning, my dad called me at work, which was a first.  I was immediately concerned that bad news was coming, however it turned out my parents had made a resolution to “get their […]