Good people are everywhere. And bad people are everywhere. That mix is in our families, politics . . . hell, it’s even in our own hearts, AND that mixture of good and bad is in the church. — I’m not Catholic. I serve Catholics on a semi-regular basis, and they seriously have THE best funeral […]
Get ready for a new age-y and weird thought that isn’t nearly as new age-y and weird as it sounds. — The energy of our dead surround us in everything we do, especially during the holidays. — I know, whenever we talk about “energy” it’s super ambiguous and unquantifiable, and it sounds like something a […]
Today’s guest post is written by Isaac Pollak, head of a Jewish Chevrah Kadisha (Chevrah Kadisha is the “Holy Society” or organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition and are protected from desecration, willful or not, until burial) Central to religious […]
You get home from a stressful day working at the funeral home. You change out of your suit and into your comfortable clothes and as soon as you sit down, your cell phone rings. “There’s a death at such and such place.” And in your head, you’re thinking, “Gahhh! I just … took … my […]
Over the past couple months, I’ve been contemplating why the West (America, Europe, etc.) has so much aversion to death, while other — less “developed — cultures see death as less alien. I’ve come up with two major reasons: One. Modernity. Our modern world takes death care away from families and puts it in the hands of […]