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Move over, urns: 4 kind of cool things you can do with ashes, and 1 crazy thing

May 6, 2015

Ashes can turn up in some unexpected places.

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What do you think of these funeral requests?

March 31, 2015

Some of these responses might surprise you!

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Will there be a jar of Vicks in your grave?

March 28, 2015

What have you seen people buried with? Anything unusual?

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RIP Jim Zimmerman

February 1, 2015

I had heard he had not been well in the past couple of years. Still, I was saddened by the …

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“I cannot explain it but I wept”

January 4, 2015

One man and his two sons were tasked with the inconceivable work of burying 132 children after a school massacre in Pakistan.

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If a man is buried and no one is there to see it, did he really die?

September 22, 2014

Imagine this: Your son has died, but you know only when. You don’t know where he died, or how. He …

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Portrait of a grave in William Kent Krueger’s “Ordinary Grace”

August 6, 2014

I just finished William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace. Toward the end, there’s a fantastic description of a grave and gravedigging …

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An unexpected place to find beauty

July 29, 2014

A recent blog post by uber-popular funeral director Caleb Wilde (author of “Confessions of a Funeral Director”) resonated with me. …

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Sympathy cards: Yay or nay?

June 7, 2014

The June 6 episode of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour brought with it a discussion of sympathy cards. Glen Weldon in …

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Where’s the most unusual place you’ve been for a memorial service?

May 8, 2014

  When I grew up in Waseca in the 1970s and ’80s, I don’t think I ever went to a …

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