Note: I wrote this article over the weekend and I wasn’t going to publish it until Wednesday, but since I just spent my entire night [11 PM to 5:45 AM] picking up three deceased persons, I thought it’s probably appropriate to post it now. After I hit “publish”, I’ll be off to bed and back […]
As many of you know, my wife and I are in the process of adopting our three and one half month old Jeremiah. We were there on the day of his birth and have been with him ever since. We have an open adoption with Jeremiah’s birth mom and we love her immensely. The process of […]
This is a question I’ve had to ask a few of my friends ever once upon a busy day at the funeral home. House pick ups are different than hospital and nursing home pick ups. “House calls” as we call them often involves obstacles (like stairs, furniture, etc.) that one person cannot overcome along. While hospital and nursing […]
There are some animals that don’t show signs of aging … these animals don’t have a decline in functionality nor do they lack virility. This characteristic is called “negligible senescence (or negligible aging)” and is seen in the Rougheye rockfish (which can live up to 205 years), the Ocean Quahog clam (405 years), the Aldabra Giant […]
In the Western world, death is one of the last taboos. Death has become so sterile … so unspeakable … so frightful … so improper … that we assume we MUST protect the innocent souls from it’s darkness. In many parental minds, those “innocent souls” who need the most protection are our children. Death, though, isn’t something that we […]