In Honor of Embalming – Rock Star Louisiana Funeral Director Courtney Baloney Defends the Corpse
“Prior to Covid, would you attend a wedding ceremony without the bride and groom? No. Well then why would you attend a funeral service without ...
Category: Life & Death
The Louisiana Funeral Director at the Center of Covid-19: An Exclusive Interview With Courtney Baloney
Back in April, newspapers reported that in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana the Covid-19 death rate was the highest of any county in America ...
Dying To Vote – As Election Day Nears, Some Older Americans Go To Extremes
The great COVID-19 election is at last upon us and given the hardships and limitations presented by the virus many Americans have to take extra ...
Coronavirus Challenges – Six Months On, How Are We Remembering the Dead?
“It’s an essential human fear that we don’t want to die alone, and the worst part of it for our family was knowing that he ...
The Faces of COVID: Honoring those we’ve lost.
It's easy to get lost in the numbers we hear about deaths from COVID-19. As the tally keeps growing, we should remember that each statistic ...
AS THE 2020 HURRICANE SEASON ROARS ON, LET’S NOT FORGET THE STRANGE AND DEADLY STORMS OF 1780
Many Americans remember Katrina, Sandy, Andrew, Hugo, but as Hurricane Laura comes ashore we send our thoughts to first responders and the people of the ...
What’s the Best Way to Face Death? Now There’s A Zoom Class For That.
“If we woke up each morning, knowing we only had a year to live what would change? How would we greet the day, our partner, ...
Welcome to the Age of the Drive-Thru Funeral—Is It Here To Stay?
As the United States moves into its fourth month of quarantine mode, Americans have gotten accustomed to drive-thru medical checkups, and drive-thru grocery pickups, and ...
Hart Island Back in the News
With its curious and often dark history, New York City’s Hart Island is no stranger to notoriety. Now it is once again in the news. ...
The Other Coronavirus Death, From Loneliness, Anxiety And A Failure Of the Heart
Yesterday I received a note from a colleague highlighting another aspect of the coronavirus crisis—not only are the nation’s older adults dying from coronavirus, the ...
Coronavirus Sweeps The World, And Even The Funeral Is Transformed
A deadly infectious disease has spread throughout the world, the death toll has started an awful climb that experts tell us is just beginning, and ...
How To Live And Die With 40 Cats? An Interview with a Country Cat Lady
Where do cats go when they die? Can they come back as other cats? How do you know when to euthanize an animal? Can dogs ...
Royal Babies, Royal Blood, Royal Death
Earlier this month the royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave birth to their first child, a baby boy. It was perhaps one of ...
The Day Of The Post-Mortal Avatar Has Arrived—Are You Prepared?
In the 1993 film “My Life” doctors tell Bob Jones, played by Michael Keaton, that he is dying of cancer and has just four months ...
