Keep the conversation about suicide going: focus on elder suicide
NOTE: This article was originally published in September 2014. While some of the statistics may have changed, elder suicide is still a much too common ...
Category: Life & Death
Everest movie shows why the world’s highest cemetery keeps getting bigger.
A lot of people die climbing Mount Everest. Yet adventurers continue to be drawn to the challenge of scaling the world's highest peak. A new Everest ...
Suicide Prevention Day: September 10, 2015
On September 10th, the day designated as Worldwide Suicide Prevention Day, we are asked to take a few moments to help raise awareness of the ...
Honoring Justin Wilson’s legacy
Justin Wilson, the NASCAR car driver who died Monday as a result of a freak accident at Pocono Raceway was, by all accounts, one of ...
Number of female funeral directors continues to increase.
As far back as ancient Greece, women have had a significant role in caring for the dead. In fact, until the 19th century, the job ...
Cemetery and funeral home weddings are becoming a trend as the industry looks to expand its offerings.
The funeral industry is opening its doors to life events as well as death events these days. The latest trend--cemetery and funeral home weddings. What ...
Operation Gratitude: Saying thank you to all who serve.
As we go about our daily lives, it is easy to forget all those who make sacrifices so that we can enjoy our freedom. There ...
Strange deaths 2015 mid-year check-up: Selfie deaths keep coming.
We normally save our strange death report for the end of the year, but with two men meeting their maker while shooting fireworks off their ...
Sleeping in Cemeteries: In Hard Times, People around the World Choose to Live Among the Dead
Bratislav Stojanovic wakes up every morning in a tomb. For 15 years the Serbian man has been sleeping in a cemetery in the city of ...
“Exquisite Corpse” celebrates Woodlawn Cemetery’s jazz legacy.
There are a lot of notable people buried in New York City's Woodlawn Cemetery. The 400-acre cemetery is the final resting place to some 300,000 ...
Sheryl Sandberg Shares Her Grief
Thirty days ago Sheryl Sandberg lost her husband, David, in a tragic accident while vacationing in Mexico. Since then, the Facebook executive has been travelling on the ...
Celebrity Death Hoaxes Just Keep Coming
CELEBRITY DEATH HOAXES JUST KEEP COMING Poor Jackie Chan. Not only has the movie star died once, but twice. Not really. But he has been the subject of ...
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 hits the porch each day. Some days he ...
Searching for an Inuit Afterlife: Nursing Homes Come to the Arctic, and a Way of Death Changes
Seven miles. That’s how far downstream the Mississippi River carried my grandfather when he swam across at Baton Rouge. The year must have been about ...
My Name is Katharine Lowrie and I Talk to Dead People
Katharine Lowrie often introduces herself as someone who talks to dead people. It might be a bit more accurate to say she talks about dead ...
