The Co-operative FuneralCare of England recently came out with a “Top 20 Pop Songs Requested at Funerals” list based on requests made at 30,000 services over the last 12 months. Before I get to the Top 20 list, FuneralCare has this to say, which I think is really interesting: Figures show that pop music has replaced […]

I’m okay with people who divinize political power.  I used to be one.  After reading my fair share of classic and modern political philosophy, I became disillusioned and lost my faith in the power of Politics. I stay up-to-date on the debates and I vote according to my conscious, but I do so with vapidity. I […]

Aside from picking up the dead at night, I also attempt to raise broken youth at The Parkesburg Point Youth Center. Right now I’m working with a young girl who was raped by her father when she was eleven.  Raped by her father.  At the age of eleven.  And — with these young people — […]

  “Don’t blink, son, because the older you get, the faster time goes. Before you know it, you’ll be old and ready to pass the last horizon.” I’ve been told something like that about every other month by some older person who’s willing to share their well seasoned wisdom. And it’s true, isn’t it? The […]

>Listening to people cry. Listening to the groaning of men and women here at work. Listening to the empty souls of motherless children. Listening to the struggles of childrenless fathers. Listening to the tongues of death.