A couple days ago I shared a review and endorsement for Shawn Smucker’s children’s novel, “The Day the Angels Fell.” Here’s chapter 1: I am old now. I still live on the same farm where I grew up, the same farm where my mother’s accident took place, the same farm that burned for days after […]
Norma Brewer, 80, had been wheelchair bound for over a year, so you can imagine her family’s surprise when they read a prewritten obituary that she submitted to the funeral home before her death: Norma Rae Flicker Brewer, a resident of Fairfield, passed away while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. She never realized her life goal of […]
Today’s guest post is written by Chad Harris: Ask most people what they know about grief, and they will likely mention that it’s made up of 5 stages: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance Makes it all sound neat, tidy, and orderly, doesn’t it? Problem is, grief is messy! Kubler-Ross did not originally intend for her […]
Mental_floss wrote an article documenting the premature burial of four individuals. This one is especially interesting: … 19-year-old Frenchman Angelo Hays “probably the most remarkable twentieth-century instance of alleged premature burial.” In 1937, Hays wrecked his motorcycle, with the impact throwing the young man from his machine headfirst into a brick wall. Hays’ face was so […]
There’s been three necrophilia cases that have made the national news in the past month. The following story is perhaps the most disturbing because — unlike the other two — it involves a “mortuary employee.” First the story, and then I’ll provide some rather strong commentary: An employee at a mortuary in Ghana has told […]