Mysteries

I couldn’t tell you why I’ve received an abundance of requests to offer pre-arrangements, pre-paying for funeral, in the past week. I couldn’t tell you why a desire to plan one’s own funeral comes in waves any more that I can explain why Thanksgiving...

Inconvenient Death

I was reminded recently that there really isn’t a convenient time for death.  When you think about it though, there really isn’t a convenient time for anything that doesn’t occur on a daily or weekly schedule.  Even those things that are on the scale...

Family Talk

I received an email the other day from a lady that wanted to know if there were any tips that I might have on how to further the death talk with her mom and dad. Identifying burial or cremation, or what types of services they would want – memorial, funeral,...