I posted this photo on my Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook Page. Many have asked, “Where is this gravestone located?” ”Who is the gravestone for?” And various other questions. Here’s Matthew Stanford Robison’s “Find a Grave” page that will answer most of your questions: Birth: Sep. 23, 1988 Death: Feb. 21, 1999 This unique monument shows […]
Today’s guest post is written by Samantha Allington: I have just been diagnosed with Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction, a cardiac disorder that has a life expectancy of 7.1 years on average. I’ve only just had the diagnosis and have not been given my prognosis yet, but have been doing a lot of my own research. I […]
by Shane R. Toogood Above my television, ten years after Mrs. Connelly had given it to me, is a poster of Edgar Allan Poe: “In the Mind of Edgar Allan Poe.” It’s a portrait of the Master of the Macabre with images of his greatest pieces bursting from his cerebellum and into the world: the […]
What if you were told that your spouse cannot be buried next to you? Or that you’ll have to pay a large tax bill upon your spouse’s death that your neighbors, who have been married a shorter time than you and your loved one were, won’t have to? Though the tide has begun to turn, […]
I make really odd faces when I’m asking questions. In fact, my face is so scary that the NSA has banned my face from the internet after this post. “Next time, wear a mask” they said. As you might imagine, with a face that frightening, it was next to impossible to get my interviewee to […]