2/13/2009 http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc133/moonchld999/WeepingAngel2.jpg Life can be messy , and death can strike when our re...

8/26/09  At a recent industry conference, I heard several stories of children carving their initials into trees used as evidence of our ...

http://www.theage.com.au/national/bikies-honour-slain-rebel-rick-20090330-9h21.html Procession for 'Rebel Rick' Love bikers, or hate...

The cost of printed obituaries is skyrocketing, newspapers in major markets are being abandoned, and obituaries are even being prepared for ...

Euphemisms abound in funeral service. As Hugh Rawson explains in one of my most favorite books, Euphemisms & Other Double Talk (Crown Pu...

12/20/2008 I was preparing a lady for her burial the other day in the clothes she had set out for that purpose. Her husband had passed awa...

Giottino's Pietà of San Remigio. ca. 1365, Tempera on wood, 195 x 134 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. http://commons.wikimedia.org...

Inconsolable Grief (1884)Ivan Kramskoy http://www.auburn.edu/forlang/russian/art/kramskoy-grief.html In an article about Grief support in S...

http://churchdancewear.com/images/prod-images/PastorCollarCase-PM.jpg David Keen is a vicar in Yeovil who also writes a blog. Here is his p...

http://www.alaskastock.com/Pix/410/DR/410DR_CY0007_001_T.JPG http://www.toolfactory.com/olympus_contest/contest_winners/Spring_2007_photog...

New Orleans Jazz Funeral for tuba player Kerwin James from onenawlins via YouTube As a funeral director, watching this makes me cringe at ...