TOP STORIES
Via Apartment Therapy, the story of
the death mask
Know
your rights: difficult to negotiate funeral costs, but worth it, from
Claire Martin of the Denver Post
Funny,
creative obits stick out – via Bob Kalinowski of citizensvoice.com.
MOURNING
Disturbing or comforting? Photos
of stillborns, dead infants becoming memorial practice – by Joel Landau of
the New York Daily News
Sharon Randall of McClatchy-Tribune on the
need for funerals
Pamela Jay Gottfried on a beautiful
day for a funeral
End-of-life
ethicist reflects on her own mourning for her husband, from Peggy Fletcher
Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune
Howard Barbanel on Huffington Post, on mourning
his mother
OBITS
From Confessions of a Funeral Director: “10
Ways to Make Your Obituary Spicy”
FUNERALS
Funeral
home buries wrong body – from Deborah Hastings at the New York Daily News
Veteran
plans ahead by purchasing Jack Daniels coffin: from Alex Crook at the Daily
Star
Paul Sullivan of the New York Times talks about planning
ahead
From TV New Zealand: ‘Funeral
directors welcome proposed coronial changes’