I just stumbled onto this story that dates back to 2009.   From NBC Philadelphia:  Janie Holsey told a funeral home employee that the man in the casket was not her husband. “That’s how they look when they die,” a funeral home employee told the grieving widow, according to the Daily News. “How they look […]

The iPod’s plugged into the sound system.  The crowd that has gathered for the funeral settles down into their chairs for the solemn event that’s about to take place.  The sound guy hits “play” on the iPod and mistakenly plays the wrong song.  It happens.  And when it does, it’s often a song that either […]

This test is an utter and complete insult to your intelligence … but it’s kinda fun.

When we embrace death, we embrace that part of humanity that we all share.  We all share in connection, we all share in mortality and we all share in grief.  Death, in separating us from loved ones, binds together those that remain in community and love. It binds together the world in sorrow.  Despite our […]