I joined a forum at HuffPost Live the other day.  They called me a couple hours before the forum started to see if I’d be willing to add my funeral director’s perspective.  I was not entirely prepared (which was evident in the final question they asked me towards the end of the convo). Otherwise, it […]

The first time death became real for me was when I watched Bambi’s mother die.  I still remember it like it was yesterday.  And yes, I cried. I cried when Mufasa died. And Disney’s “Old Yeller” messed me up for like a month. Yup.  Disney pretty much took away my death virginity. In fact, Disney […]

In the Western world, death is one of the last taboos.  Death has become so sterile … so unspeakable … so frightful … so improper … that we assume we MUST protect the innocent souls from it’s darkness.  In many parental minds, those “innocent souls” who need the most protection are our children. Death, though, isn’t something that we […]