This is a question I’ve asked myself nearly every morning for the past 10 plus years. It’s weird and depressing and dark. Then again, I’m weird and depressing and — if my wife would let me — I’d wear grey and black clothing every day of the year. To top it off, I’m a mortician. My […]
Humanity has been tossing items into the deceased’s coffins for thousands of years. Bottles of Jack Daniels, cigarettes, lottery tickets, pictures, Playboys, sports jerseys … so it should come as surprise that even blunts get tossed into caskets on occasion. But, it was a surprise when this happened in California a few years ago: Three senior […]
This past week we had a funeral for a 23 year old whose alcohol problems caused an untimely death*. During the funeral — which was one of the more powerful funerals I’ve ever worked — the mother of this young man somehow mustered the strength to read the following poem. I don’t know who wrote the poem, […]
Glenturret Distillery claims to be the oldest distillery in Scotland, but that fact may not be their ultimate claim to fame … at least from my perspective. Via wikipedia: Towser, a long-haired tortoiseshell female, the resident feline pest control expert at Glenturret from 1963 till 1987 [25] was an officially recognised record breaker. Her […]