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The Language of Funeral Flowers
Flowers have been a traditional funeral gift for millennia, there's even evidence that Neanderthal people buried their dead with flowers more than 60,000 years ago.Not only are flowers beautiful but they have a language all of their own. They are a symbol of life and they are a gift that lets people know that you are thinking about them. Each flower variety and every color all have[...]
Personalizing Funerals with Sentimental Releases
Personalized funerals are continuously growing to become an occasion of life celebrations, and what better way to memorialize the life lived than by customizing the sendoff celebration to reflect the passions and joys that the dearly departed had in life.With that, some people have been using[...]
The Infinity Burial Project
The goals of the Infinity Burial Project are to promote death acceptance and awareness and to create alternatives for the postmortem body that neutralizes the toxins in human tissue. Our bodies are full of toxins that, upon decomposition, are harmful to the environment. Founded and directed by Jae Rhim Lee, she developed or "trained" a strain of mushroom fungi that actually eats away at[...]
A Hearse with a World Speed Record
While not particularly useful in any practical situation, or even possible in an actual procession, testing the top speed of a hearse is something that just seems fun. Coach-built hearses are modelled after massive luxury cars (Cadillacs, Lincolns, Mercedes-Benzes) and are extremely large, and well, overweight. The work involved to make one of these vehicles a respectable racer just[...]
A Museum of the Dead, for the Living
When Houston, Texas comes to mind one may think of the Astrodome or perhaps NASA and the Johnson Space Center but few people know that Houston is also the home of the National Museum of Funeral History (NMFH). Located in the heart of the Lone Star state, the NMFH is the most prominent funeral home museum in North America, perhaps even the world.Housed in its over 35,000 sq. ft. complex,[...]
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