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Tag Archives: Funeral
Healing Touches: Planning a Memorial or Funeral
Comforting, creative touches to add to your memorial planning checklist
1) Celebrate Color The traditional funeral color scheme may be black on black (maybe grey), but your loved one experienced a unique and vibrant life – so why not bring some color into their service? Why not plan a memorial … Continue reading
Bali Fire Burials
Exploring the Balinese's liberation of the soul through fire and water
All around the world, people practice their own funerary customs and traditions. Some cultures practice air sacrifices, some practice cave burials – but people from Bali, Indonesia, combine religion and cremation in a ritual known as the fire burial. Through fire burial, … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged Bali, Balinese, Balinese funeral, Cremation, family loss, Fire Burials, Funeral, Hinduism, Indonesia, Loss
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What if you met your best friend at a funeral?
Clip from the 1971 classic film "Harold and Maude"
More from Laughter is Medicine: “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” “I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming and terrified, like his passengers.” Some People … Continue reading
Love in the Language of Flowers
A look at how floriography conveys different messages of love through the gift of flowers
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and for every box of chocolate or card exchanged, there will be an insurmountable number of roses and other floral bouquets gifted to loved ones in celebration of this day of love. It … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged Constantinople, Flower, Funeral, Gift, Language of flowers, Valentine, Valentine's Day, Victorian era
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When Convenience Meets Funerals
Drive-thru funerals slowly becoming an option geared towards African-Americans in the US
Americans relish the freedom to choose how to cope with the deaths of loved ones as well as the types of funerals with which honor them. It’s hardly surprising that a culture which embraces any new convenience, such as fast … Continue reading
The New Orleans Jazz Funeral
How people in New Orleans celebrate the lives of loved ones as they properly send them off at a funeral
New Orleans, Louisiana is no exception when it comes to playing music for loved ones at funerals. However, it uniquely incorporates the jazz music it is well-known for, along with a combination of West African, French, and African-American traditions, into one … Continue reading
