Posts Tagged ‘funerals’
Three Feet of Snow Does Not Stop Funeral Directors
12, Feb 2010Funeral Directors’ Challenge: Death Waits for No Snowstorm
William Wan, The Washington Post (February 12, 2010)
This is a classic news article about two kinds of hot topics: funeral directors and freakish weather events. You put these two things together and WHAMMO, you’re king of the world.
So right now in Washington, DC (which is still digging out [...]
- By: John
- In: Funeral Industry
- Tags: funeral homes, funerals
TiVo Grief with Funeral Webcasting
29, Jan 2010 Funeral Webcasting – Can’t Attend a Memorial Service?
FuneralResources.com
via The Consumerist, “Now You Can Attend Funerals Live Over the Internet”
Laura Northrup at the Consumerist recently blogged about funeral webcasting with this video from Chris Hill at FuneralResources.com. Weirdly, the vid seems aimed at those in need of services for loved ones while the accompanying webpage [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology| Death + the Web| Funeral Industry
- Tags: funerals, video, webcasting
While specific rites and rituals vary across cultures and time, anyone who has been to a few memorial services or even seen them on TV understands funerals. We may not know how to feel about death or the deceased, but we do know how we’re supposed to act.
A funeral, after all, is a performance — [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: funerals, mock funerals, protests, video
Chimpanzee Funeral?
31, Oct 2009 The Story Behind Our Photo of Grieving Chimps
Jeremy Berlin, National Geographic Blog Central (October 29, 2009)
Fast on the heels of debatably mourning magpies, I offer you the somewhat more definitive (pics and it happened!) chimpanzee funeral, where huddled, sad chimps appear to pay their last respects to their dead companion Dorothy.
Of course the “funeral” [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Biology| Grief + Mourning
- Tags: animals, funerals, grief
Poe’s Funeral Draws Hundreds
12, Oct 2009Edgar Allan Poe Finally Getting Proper Funeral
Ben Nuckols, Associated Press (October 6, 2009)
The late Edgar Allan Poe had a memorial service Sunday, October 11, in Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, that late Edgar Allan Poe—the beloved American writer of the macabre who has been dead for 160 years.
Hundreds of mourners in period dress, including Alfred Hitchcock and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: celebrity death, funerals, memorializing