All about the unavoidable
What's your ending?
Not many enjoy thinking about death, particularly their own. Still, it is one of life's two certainties.
Welcome to Alternative Undertakings, where fitting endings to life stories are written, numerous facets of death are discussed, and where you can begin to plan your end.
Once you’ve started making ICE (in case of emergency folder) you can add—a little at a time—additional components to it that can make a difference in managing a life and death emergency.
Hoarding paper products and canned goods isn’t the only way to exercise control in your life while faced with events completely out of any one person’s control. Here’s one idea: create your own I.C.E. folder.
Mourning and memorial jewelry isn't anything new: only the styles and mores around it have changed. Here are five historical pieces, and five modern options.
Sometimes, for any number of reasons, a eulogy is not said. This one is for my grandfather-in-law.
Headstones are really just individual monuments. A stone to represent a life and to bring back into existence some part of that individual; a stone to occupy the physical place where that person no longer stands. It provides a means of proving that they were real, a rock to touch because their arm is gone.
In my explorations around death and dying, I’ve read-- and am reading-- a great deal. This post is a part of an ongoing collection to summarize some of these works, and are generally devoid of my commentary.
There really isn’t a title for the service I want to provide. “Death Broker” sounds like the professional title of a hit-man. What about “Funereal Agent”?
If you ignore it, maybe it won't come? Reasons death and dying are subjects we avoid.
Americans who visit cemeteries because they find them beautiful and interesting are often maligned, but they aren't really a problem. It's the thrill-seekers, ghost-hunters and Halloween tourists you have to worry about. One such example is what has happened in an old cemetery outside Austin, Texas.