Renato Garcia, 55, of Puerto Rico, recently died and was embalmed in such a way that he could be stood up.  He was then dressed in a Green Lantern costume.  This isn’t the first time the Marin Funeral Home has done some exotic embalming jobs.  They’re responsible for an embalmed boxer in a boxing ring, […]

Today’s guest post is written by Pastor Dieter Reda: Grief sometimes brings out the worst in people. Add to that the fact that funerals sometimes bring families together even when they don’t want to be together, and you have a recipe for disaster. I have witnessed several family conflicts at funerals but one remains indelibly […]

Bob Lowe, 92, wrote, “My wife died 3 months ago after 65 years of marriage but more to the point 72 years since we first kissed ….”  He wrote this poem in her honor: I am alone, now I know it’s true There was a time when we were two Those were the days when […]

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 […]