Aside from picking up the dead at night, I also attempt to raise broken youth at The Parkesburg Point Youth Center. Right now I’m working with a young girl who was raped by her father when she was eleven. Raped by her father. At the age of eleven. And — with these young people — […]
A week ago, I posted an infograph on the Evolution of Death by mysendoff.com I prefaced the infograph with this: Although this infograph is pretty cool, it’s not entirely accurate. Between the 1830 “Feng Shui” circle and the 1882 establishment of the NFDA circle, there should be a circle for 1840 that documents the establishment […]
There’s been an overwhelmingly positive response to my article “10 Burdens Funeral Directors Carry“. We funeral directors carry a unique set of burdens. And there’s ways — both positive and negative — that we cope with our burdens. Here’s 10 coping methods funeral directors use. The first five are coping methods that are negative or maladaptive techniques. […]
In our culture, touch is too often motivated by 1.) Desire. 2.) Demand. Many don’t know how to touch outside of those two categories. There’s a rather new interdisciplinary area of study called haptonomy which explores how to touch outside of the desire and demand categories. Haptonomy is the study of psycho-tactile communication. Psychologist and […]
This from http://aaroncollins.org/. Aaron was the type of person that took great joy in unexpected kindness. Once after receiving exceptionally bad service at dinner, from a rude waitress, he left her a $50 tip. Things like this, given or received, were what he thought left a mark on a person’s life. Aaron passed away July […]