6 important tips for talking to kids about death and loss.
Talking to children about death and loss is never easy. While there is no right and wrong way to go about it, this article published ...
Month: September 2014
Pet hospice movement improving options for animal end-of-life care.
Lucky for us, our pets are living longer. According to the 2013 Banfield State of Pet Health Report, today’s cats have gained an average of ...
New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery: final resting place of the rich and powerful.
Until the mid-1800s, cemeteries were almost exclusively small plots on church grounds. During the late 1700s, we began to see a new style of cemetery ...
FDNY: 9/11 illness kills 3 retired firefighters in one day.
Firefighters Robert Leaver, Daniel Heglund, and Lt. Howard Bischoff all passed away on Monday, September 22nd within minutes of each other. All three had retired from ...
Skeletons found holding hands after 700 years, proving love never dies
Who knows how this pair died, but whoever buried them must have known they were soul mates. Now THAT is true love!
Family of Connor Eckhardt works to educate others in wake of son’s death due to K2
On July 17, 2014, the family of 19-year-old Connor Eckhardt said goodbye in their own special way before Connor’s body was taken away so that ...
Polly Bergen, Emmy winning actress dies at 84
Polly Bergen, whose career spanned more than 60 years, died peacefully at her home in Connecticut on Saturday, September 20, 2014. According to reports by ...
“Dying in America” report released
On Tuesday the Institute of Medicine released the results of its comprehensive study, Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End ...
Disturbing FBI investigation involves cadavers, body parts, and possible black market connections
Sounding much like the plot of an episode of CSI, the details of an FBI investigation into the body parts business are starting to unfold. So ...
Would you like fries with that funeral viewing?
There is no question that the funeral business is one that is steeped in tradition. So it’s natural that when a service such as drive-thru ...
Ideal Death Show encourages consumers to plan their own funeral.
Over the weekend of Sept. 5-7, members of the general public mingled with funeral industry professionals at The Ideal Death Show, a gathering of Britain’s entrepreneurs, ...
How a broken heart can kill the elderly.
The medical community has known for a long time that a condition called a condition called takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome exists.
Who Needs to Visit a Torture Museum?
As we walked by, the sign out front invited us to visit the Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments. Who could pass that up? We’re in ...
Remembering 9/11
Today marks the 13th anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history, 9/11/2001. I, like the rest of us, will never forget that incredible ...
Richard Kiel, actor, dead at 74
Richard Kiel, the actor best known for his role as the villain Jaws in the James Bond classics “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Moonraker”, ...
