Five Things I Love About Being a Certified Life-Cycle© Celebrant
By Elaine Voci, Ph.D. The sky was a bright blue overhead, and the sun shone gloriously on the campus grounds as I walked slowly…
Category: Celebrations of Life
Celebration of Life or Funeral: What’s the difference?
When a loved one dies, we look for the perfect way to honor their life. We also want to give those left behind a way to say goodbye. Traditionally,…
Are You Death Positive?
Death. Now that’s something we all have in common! Sooner or later we will all experience it. What we don’t necessarily share is the way we look at it….
Home Funerals: Do-It-Yourself is on the rise.
There are a lot of things people don’t know about the funeral industry. That’s to be expected. Funerals can be hard talk about and frankly, most of us prefer…
This is NOT Your Grandmother’s Cremation Urn
Puzzled by what to do with those ashes? Don’t worry, you don’t have to buy a plain Jane urn. There are lots of really fancy (and maybe a little…
“This Is Us” gives the funeral we all deserve
Written By: Molly Gorny Think back to the last funeral you saw on a TV show. If you remember one at all, what probably comes to mind is lots…
The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death
Written By: Justin Nobel, originally posted on Digital Dying A woman had died, and Reverend Ginny Wheeler faced a dilemma. Wheeler, of the Community United Methodist Church, in Huntington…
The self-penned obituary: Is this labor of love a trend or a movement?
Among my clearest childhood memories is my Dad turning to the obituary page when the afternoon paper hit the porch each day. Some days he would make a comment…
