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Funeral Films: The Loved One - By Gail Rubin
The Loved One satirizes the funeral business, including pet funerals, as well as the movie industry and the military-industrial complex. It debuted in 1965, two years after Jessica Mitford's exposÈ book The American Way of Death rocked the funeral industry. Despite its black-and-white vintage, The Loved One does show funeral trends that have continued to this day.Critics at the time[...]
Solving the Puzzle of a Good Funeral - By Gerry Lougheed Jr.
In the journey from womb to tomb we learn life's lessons by experience and repetition. From the preschooler's success of tying their shoes to their grandparents' decision to reside in a senior's residence, we gain skills and make informed decisions by becoming familiar with circumstances. When the[...]
Have The Talk of a Lifetime
today’s technology-filled world we have endless opportunities to communicate with each other from mobile phones to email, social media and texting. In fact we have never been so well connected with instant contact options.For all of the advantages of today’s communication tools it seems that we are now spending less time sitting down to actually talk with those who mean the most to[...]
The Viking Funeral on Film - By Gail Rubin
Some folks think a Viking funeral would be a cool way to send off a loved one. This idealized grand gesture is totally influenced by films churned out by Hollywood studios.The way the movies portray it, Vikings dispatched their honored dead by laying the body on a boat and setting the vessel on fire with flaming arrows. Let's trace the history of this notion through film. (The links in[...]
How to Have Fun in a Cemetery - By Ryan Lee
Last week I took my son to Costco, and located next to our local Costco is a small, and charming cemetery. As I opened the door to my Yukon XL, that gets thirteen miles to the gallon, so that my son and I could go eat our Costco hotdogs; my son surprised me. He pointed to the cemetery and asked, ¨When are we going to go back there?Granted, it may only be the son of a mortuary veteran[...]
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