Dear Sons: Can We Talk About Death And Dying?
Dear Sons: You are now 28 and 32, respectively, and have been out, and for the most part, on your own for the better part of a decade....
Grief & Loss
Throw the Body Out with the Box: Thomas Lynch and Thomas Long on Seeing Off the Dead
A preacher, a funeral director and a dead body took a road trip through Michigan… It might sound like the opening line of a joke, but authors Thomas...
96-Year-Old Man Writes Tear-Jerking Song, ‘Oh Sweet Lorraine,’ For Late Wife (VIDEO)
Get out those tissue boxes. Because this 96-year-old man's love song for his late wife is guaranteed to make you tear up. Fred Stobaugh, from Peoria, Ill., wrote...
The 11 Worst and Best Things To Say To Someone In Grief
These lists were compiled by Caleb Wilde and originally posted of the Confessions Of A Funeral Director Facebook Page. Read the lists below and share in the comments...
The Trauma of Being Alive
TALKING with my 88-year-old mother, four and a half years after my father died from a brain tumor, I was surprised to hear her questioning herself. “You’d think...