The maker says: This was shot in Holland, Sweden and Scotland over the summer. This is largely recycled material from a similarly themed bigger project that just didn’t turn out the way I was hoping it would. What I learned is that I definitely don’t belong in front of the camera, it’s very difficult to [...]
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Walmart: Funeral Services?
Beginning last January, Walmart offered funeral home services at 225 of its Supercenters. The Walmart slogan, “Save money. Live better,” will be altered at these locations to “Save money. Die stiffer.” Its motto “Always Low Prices” will be changed to “Eternally Low Prices.” The locations of Walmart funeral outlets are scattered around the country, with [...]
Funeral Costs and Death
Plan Your Own Funeral Making plans for your funeral is easy to delay. Whatever your current state, remember this: the customary warning signs of death do not always apply. Surgeons will tell you that they spend their lives delving into the interiors of people who thought they’d be going home that very day, as every [...]
What To Do With Cremation Ashes
The finality about burial. When it’s all over Luckily, cremation gives you no such conclusion. You get ashes back – if you want it. Cremated remains. They weigh around as much as the dead person did when they were born, so there’s a nice irony there. If you decided not to have a funeral for [...]
Airforce Dumps Corpses in Landfill
A very sad story about our American Troops By msnbc.com staff The incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops were dumped in a Virginia landfill, according to government records, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Air Force officials said that the dumping was hidden from families who had given authorization for the remains [...]
End Of Life
End of Life Decisions This month in the US, many friends and families will come together to enjoy a Christmas and New Years Eve, drink some wine, and zealously shop for friends over the holiday weekends. With everyone coming together to celebrate, it’s an ideal time to make sure many of your friends and family [...]
Green Burial Cemetery
My uncle a farmer in a small town in Michigan discovered a few months ago that he only has a few months to live because his family doctor discovered some cancer tumors in his lungs. Uncle Hank smoked 3 packs a day and also enjoyed a few beers after working in the fields all day [...]
Increasing Costs Of Funerals
Ouch! Have you seen the high cost of funerals lately? During these tough economic times Funeral Experts reveals the predicted cost of a funeral in 2014 will be 11,500. In the last decade the average cost of a funeral increased by over 90%. With interest rates at an all time low, and home values not [...]
Green Burial
In recent years… the green burial business has gotten bigger—there are close to 300 funeral homes in 40 states offering green services in 2011, as opposed to roughly a dozen in 2008. Since the 1870s the funeral industry hasn’t come up with a new idea. Green Burial Review We’re still burying people like they buried [...]
Cremation Cost – Planning in Uncertain Times
All about the Family My uncle a chicken farmer in Mid-Michigan with cancer is a biodynamic farmer who lives simply and close to the earth. He wants my father to put his body in the pickup truck and drive it to the crematory. He thought the entire process would cost around $300. I promised to [...]
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