Move over, urns: 4 kind of cool things you can do with ashes, and 1 crazy thing
Ashes can turn up in some unexpected places.
Tag Archives: funerals
What do you think of these funeral requests?
Some of these responses might surprise you!
Will there be a jar of Vicks in your grave?
What have you seen people buried with? Anything unusual?
RIP Jim Zimmerman
I had heard he had not been well in the past couple of years. Still, I was saddened by the …
“I cannot explain it but I wept”
One man and his two sons were tasked with the inconceivable work of burying 132 children after a school massacre in Pakistan.
If a man is buried and no one is there to see it, did he really die?
Imagine this: Your son has died, but you know only when. You don’t know where he died, or how. He …
Portrait of a grave in William Kent Krueger’s “Ordinary Grace”
I just finished William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace. Toward the end, there’s a fantastic description of a grave and gravedigging …
An unexpected place to find beauty
A recent blog post by uber-popular funeral director Caleb Wilde (author of “Confessions of a Funeral Director”) resonated with me. …
Sympathy cards: Yay or nay?
The June 6 episode of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour brought with it a discussion of sympathy cards. Glen Weldon in …
Where’s the most unusual place you’ve been for a memorial service?
When I grew up in Waseca in the 1970s and ’80s, I don’t think I ever went to a …
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 