Funerals

Including Children at Funerals

Hollye Harrington Jacobs | Posted 05.20.2012

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It is important to prepare children for what they will encounter at each step of the funeral or memorial service. When they know what to expect, children will not be overwhelmed.

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The Death and Dying Series Part Three: Transforming the Culture of Death in America

Judith Johnson | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Funerals, Bereavement, Fear of Death, Cultural Transformation, Palliative Care, Grief, Burial, Memorial Services and Celebrations, Hospice, Cremation, Death, Death & Dying, Advance Health Care Directives, Healthy Living News

It may sound peculiar, but there are some very exciting things happening where death is concerned in America. The momentum of change in how we view and respond to death is building in many sectors of society as we transform our culture of death.

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America's (Kinda Dark) Sweetheart

Christian Josi | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Funerals, Caitlin Doughty, Funeral Industry, Funeral Jobs, Caitlin Doughty Mortician, Mortician, Creamation, Funeral Directors, Culture News

Meet Caitlin Doughty of Los Angeles, Calif. -- a feisty 27-year-old mortician and, thanks primarily to Jezebel, rapidly-rising Internet sensation.

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Mother In Deadly Fire That Killed Five Reportedly Attempts Suicide

Posted 03.27.2012

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The mother who tragically lost her three young daughters and parents from a horrifying Christmas Day fire in Connecticut reportedly attempted to commi...

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Green Burial Options Reduce Your Impact After Death

Posted 12.13.2011

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From Mother Nature Network's Laura Moss: Burial and cremation are the most common ways we dispose of the dead, but while these methods are steeped...

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Want To Be A Vinyl Record When You Die?

The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Funerals, Tai Hong, Burial, Cemeteries, And Vinyly, Algordanza, Funeral Alternatives, Bio Urns, Interrment, Cremation, Death, Fifty News

In the song "Black Jesus," Tupac Shakur says: "My last wishes n**gas, smoke my ashes." Whether the line articulates the late rapper's final wishes...

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Pound for Pound, It Was a Costly Cut

Charlie Carillo | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: London, Funerals, Haircuts, Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Shopping, Italian-Americans, Blow Dryer, Barbers, New York News

Italian males feel a certain way about haircuts, which is to say they should be cheap at worst, free at best.

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Dying Large

Wendy Dennis | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Eulogies, Funerals, Shiva, Big Chill, Woodstock, Mourner's Kaddish, Ken Kesey, Jewish Funerals, Grateful Dead, Dylan, George Harrison, Fifty News

We of the Woodstock generation have long been interested in pushing the limits of self-expression, and our desire to noisily overturn convention is unlikely to stop just because we're facing the big chill.

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Yelp Reviews of Kevin O'Riley's Funeral (Satire)

Joe Cristalli | Posted 11.29.2011

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PHOTO: Epic Funeral Arrangements

Posted 10.02.2011

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Usually when someone's grandmother passes away, they need to fly out to Wisconsin to be with their aunties, or go through old photo albums, or spend s...

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Dying In Cyberspace ... Are You Ready To Link In?

Janice Van Dyck | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Funerals, Social Media, Social Networking, Death and Dying, Death, Cyberspace, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News

From the ICU to the graveyard, our dying rituals have gone electronic. The internet has made group mourning and even webcast funerals possible.

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PHOTO: Finally, A Makeup Line Perfect For Your Funeral!

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.07.2011

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We're not sure of the dress code in the afterlife, but apparently it requires at least full face of makeup. British cosmetics company Illamasqua h...

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A Grave Error: Anger Over 'Walking Dead' Billboard On Funeral Parlor

Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Funerals, Walking Dead, Television, Billboard, Zombies, Amc, Advertising, Walking Dead Billboard, The Walking Dead, Tv, Walking Dead Billboard Funeral Parlor, Entertainment News

Someone made a grave error. A billboard for the AMC zombie show 'The Walking Dead', placed on the side of a funeral parlor has angered residents in...

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Senators Try To Bar Military Funeral Protests

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Funerals, Homosexuality, Westboro Protests, Military, Free Speech, Olympia Snowe, Westboro Baptist Church, Westboro Baptist Church Ruling, Snyder v. Phelps, Kirsten Gillibrand, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The controversial, gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church would be restricted from holding its inflammatory protests outside the funerals of...

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5 Reasons Funerals Can Be Uplifting

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011

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I actually enjoy going to funerals. Sure, they are sad occasions brought on by sad events. But they are also a joyous celebration of life that is at once poignant, edifying and, above all, calming.

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How To Write A Eulogy: A Final Gift To A Loved One

Carol DeChant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will you be ready when your time comes (to deliver a eulogy)? It helps if you don't think of eulogy as a performance art, but as a gift.

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Tethered: Death Without Shrouds

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even friends who talk about sex and paychecks rarely talk about death. Amy Mackinnon's genius lies in her gentling the reader through this world we so fear -- without forcing us to turn away.

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'God Hates Fags': Q&A with Pastor Fred Phelps

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pastor Fred Phelps led the congregation that gained notoriety in recent years for picketing the funerals of soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. He spoke with me about hell, homosexuality, and the Supreme Court.

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West Virginia Florists Make Heartfelt Arrangements For Miners' Funerals

Posted 05.25.2011

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In the aftermath of the West Virginia mine explosion which claimed the lives of 25 coal miners, and left others missing, local florists are pouring th...

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Funeral Protests Should Not Be Protected Free Speech: 48 States File Brief In Supreme Court Case

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia, Funerals, Freedom of Speech, Homosexuality, Free Speech, Protests, Supreme Court, Westboro Baptist Church, Christian Fundamentalism, First Amendment, Gays, Snyder v Phelps, Maine, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in support of a father who sued anti-ga...

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'Writing On The Edge' Excerpt: Paradise Lost In Armenia

The Huffington Post | DBC Pierre | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the collection "Writing On the Edge," fourteen esteemed writers chronicle their travels with MSF teams through countries in crisis. Accompanied by ...

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Clergy Support Marriage Equality

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

Oftentimes pastors face great criticism for striving on behalf of the LGBT community, risking their comfortable careers and livelihoods: pastors can be thrown out of their churches or they can endanger their professional status. So why do we do it?

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Going Out in Style

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Funerals, Aging, Busy Bodies, Bloggers, Mothers, Wardrobe, Opinions, Style News

My mother's illness didn't make her death any easier for me. I can bet that she would have preferred to have keeled over and dropped dead in the designer suit department at Bergdorf's.

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Noelia Serna, 'Dead' Colombian Woman, Moves Arm At Funeral Home

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombian woman declared dead of a heart attack moved one of her arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her, doctor...

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BCelebrated -- A Revolutionary New Approach to Death and Life

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Funerals, Memorials, California, The Inner Life, Living, Death, Bcelebrated, Healthy Living News

Bcelebrated allows individuals, families and friends to get the information and images and music and wishes all together well before death comes knocking at the door.

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