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Transcending the Fear of Death
There is a medical clinic in the US that boasts it is an “all-inclusive, one price, full-service luxury spa medical health and wellness resort,” which specializes in providing not only “cutting-edge therapies” but “knowledge, information and tools on how to live well, particularly in today's aging and disease-ridden society.”The focus here should be on the word aging. In[...]
How One Caisson Horse Helps Grieving Children
Back in May 2010 a children's book known as Klinger: A Story of Honor and Hope appeared on bookshelves. It was the endearing story of young horse dreaming of fame as a racehorse but soon finds himself enlisted to perform funeral honors for fallen heroes while bringing comfort to their families.The story not only received numerous accolades from within the publishing community, which[...]
The Mystery Castle of Mary Lou Gulley
As a child, Mary Lou Gulley loved to build sandcastles and often, Mary's parents, Boyce and Frances would take the young girl to Alki Beach in Seattle. But when the waves came in and washed her castles away, Mary Lou would cry. Her father would comfort her, telling her she was his princess and one day, he would build her a castle big enough to live in. Then, in 1927, four years after[...]
The World's Only Pirate Cemetery
Actor Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow romanticized the lives of pirates in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies but in real life, many of these pirates were bloodthirsty tyrants and murderers and some of the most successful criminals in history.Ile Sainte-Marie, a small island off the coast of Madagascar was once home to more than 1,000 pirates from 1688-1721 and is believed to have[...]
How Frank Lloyd Wright Almost Built Daphne Funeral Home
It was in 1944 when a young funeral director named Nicholas P. Daphne made a late-night phone call to the world's most famous architect. His offer was simple. He had already opened his first mortuary in 1938, and just recently purchased a plot of land just west of San Francisco's newly built US[...]
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