What's new at Prepaid FuneralFunerary Bagpiping: a Guide for Ceremonial Bagpipers
Funerals are often highly emotionally charged events. Especially when children, friends, or family are involved, you must to be able to maintain sufficient clinical detachment to get the job done, or else get someone else to pipe for you... (read more)
Taps; Piping Military Honors: A Ceremonial Guide for Highland Bagpipers
It has become increasingly popular for U.S. military veterans and their families to specifically request a piper to not only pipe for a funeral, but to pipe Taps for the rendering of military honors as well... (read more)
A Guide to Casket Stores
For decades, most people bought caskets from funeral parlors, but there has been a huge increase in the number of casket stores in recent years. The advent of the Internet has enabled many casket stores to sell caskets online... (read more)
Dying? Not Me! Why You Should Plan for Transition
Remember the Eulogy projects we had to write back in High School? Death is a tough subject to broach, and many would rather deny death then embrace it. Someone once said, "...There are only two guarantees in life: Death and Taxes... (read more)
Canadian Funeral Insurance: Our Final Gift to Those We Love
Most of us don't like thinking about our own funerals, but no matter how much we ignore the inevitable, the truth is that when the time comes someone will be responsible for those expenses... (read more)
Sympathy Flowers
Sending a floral tribute is a very appropriate way of expressing sympathy to a family who has experienced the loss of a loved one. Flowers express a feeling of life and beauty and offer much comfort to the family... (read more)
How to Choose the Right Casket
Shopping for caskets can be trying and difficult. When people find themselves shopping for caskets, they are usually filled with grief and sadness, and the wide selection of caskets can be overwhelming... (read more)
Funeral Planning Checklist
Planning a funeral can be a very difficult task, especially considering the circumstances. When something as tragic as a family member or friend passes away, the last thing you want to deal with is planning the funeral... (read more)
A Guide to Discount Caskets
Caskets are often the most expensive part of a funeral. The average casket costs around $2000, and some models can cost well over $10,000... (read more)
Beyond A Mothers Nightmare To Radical Forgiveness
It was a moment I will never forget.On February 22, 2003, I was visiting with my son Brian Michael (http://www.BrianMichaelGuthrie.com) at his home in North Carolina, where I had been since Christmas... (read more)
Grandparents Use DNA Analysis to Prevent and Treat Inherited Diseases for Future Generations
Why is DNA Analysis important to me?Knowing your family? genetic history may someday save your life or that of someone you love. Based on state-of-the-art genetic technology, a unique DNA Profile can be generated for you to keep for years to come... (read more)
Coping With A Funeral
When the death of a loved one occurs, regardless or whether it was expected or not, you will find yourself having to deal with a great number of people... (read more)
Intellectual Property: Trade Marks - Goodwill
In Newman Ltd v Adlem (2005), the Court of Appeal held that there was a duty on the seller of a business not to undermine the goodwill attached to that business (if included in the sale) even after the non-competition covenants in the sale agreement had... (read more)
A Womans Job No Woman Wants
Never talked about and seldom acknowledged is the fact that women have by default one of the worst jobs on the planet, namely final arrangement director... (read more)
A Woman? Job No Woman Wants!
Never talked about and seldom acknowledged is the fact that women have by default one of the worst jobs on the planet, namely final arrangement director... (read more)
A Guide to Glass Caskets
Glass caskets are not commonly used for human burial, but they are widely used as funeral caskets that display the body of the deceased. Glass caskets are used for the burial of small pets... (read more)
Estate Planning Basics
Greek philosopher Heraclitus had remarked that? ou cannot step into the same river twice?i.e. time will never be the same??hange?is the only constant factor and? eath?is the only certain thing in life. So what is true for today will not be true forever... (read more)
Virtual Death Memorials
On March 27, 2005 at the Big Easy’s charmingly bizarre Barrister’s Gallery, artists will experience what afterlife will be in a virtual death memorial group show – Hydriotaphia: New Orleans Artists Design... (read more)
Such Love Transforms
Everything was arranged: once the funeral was over, all were to go to Hephzibah's house for the after-funeral dinner. It was the way things were done in Nain, typical of the customs followed by citizens of the Jewish towns of the Galilee... (read more)
Made in Heaven
Consumed by my loss, I didn't notice the hardness of the pew where I sat. I was at the funeral of my dearest friend - my Mother. She finally had lost her long battle with cancer. The hurt was so intense; I found it hard to breathe at times... (read more)
Why Do We Publish?
A major "character" in Mark Salzman's first autobiography is his father. Sometimes his father paints. But his father hates painting. He likes it when his painting is done. He likes having painted... (read more)
Old Josh: The Funeral (Ozark, Alabama, 1864) [Episode Four]
Old Josh: The Funeral[Ozark, Alabama, 1864] Chapter Episode Four 8/2005][Josh and Silas: The funeral] Josh stood by he wooden cross, in the graveyard Jordan, his cousin, who had fought with the Yankees, had come home?osh and his two sons Silas and Toby... (read more)
Life Focus: What Does Your Life Say?
?magine a funeral. The preacher? giving the eulogy. And suddenly, the? uest of honor?pops up out of the coffin!It really happened. Talayi George Sogcwe of South Africa decided to fake his death as a test... (read more)
Motivation By Desire
Many of us have lost sight of what we really desire in life. We probably need to remind ourselves of the importance of rediscovering our desires and regaining the spark which makes life worthwhile... (read more)
Do You Still Have This Type of Dreams?
Jesus says in Matthew 13:25"But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way"The greatest danger that we face in the spiritual world happens when we sleep.There are 40 kinds of "tares" i.e... (read more)
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