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If you haven't heard the urban legend surrounding Walt Disney, or seen an episode of Futurama, Cryopreservation is the technology of freezing one's body in the hopes that technology in the future will allow for reanimation. This idea that cryopreserved people can be recovered in the future is still[...]
It's no hidden secret that cremations are on a sudden rise in the funeral industry, and while people may spread the ashes of their loved ones or keep an urn on their fireplace mantel, others prefer the more traditional route of interring them in a memorial site. For this, cemeteries around the world offer[...]
Jai Pausch was the wife of Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor, who inspired millions with his last lecture. Randy had pancreatic cancer and was dying, and he held a lecture at Carnegie Mellon called The Last Lecture, it was recorded and became a youtube hit viewed by over[...]
¨Boomers are a new and very different breed of customer of funeral services. Understanding their wants and needs and then tailoring services to not only meet but exceed those needs is increasingly essential for funeral homes. - Alan D. Wolfelt
In an era where social media technology is[...]
A concern that troubles many people when considering cremation as an option is that unless you use an urn, a piece of jewelry ‚ or other receptacle for the ashes of the deceased, there is really no place to go and visit to reflect on the person's memory as you would following a traditional burial in a cemetery.
Many of the more modern cemeteries have implemented commemorative walls that[...]
In 1929, the Lowel Observatory, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, hired a young man by the name of Clyde Tombaugh to take over the search for a planet beyond Neptune, a search that was started by astronomer, Percival Lowell in 1905. Tombaugh had drawn very meticulous sketches of Mars and Jupiter that he had[...]
Conspiracy theorists and fans alike can rejoice as the long ago, enigmatic mythology surrounding rapper and actor Tupac Shakur's death have been debunked when he made an appearance at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 15, 2012.
It's been 16 years since news of his death invaded[...]
When planning your sendoff most people would agree that they would prefer a service that would represent them as they lived their lives. For anyone who spent their life caring for this Earth, doing what they could to reduce their impact on the environment means looking at natural or green burial[...]
When asked two years ago to give thought on what would be the next big thing on the internet, Arianna Huffington, publisher of the online news agency Huffington Post, off the top of her head said that she would like to see an app created that would gauge the state of your mind, body, and spirit, then[...]
Last week I took my son to Costco, and located next to our local Costco is a small, and charming cemetery. As I opened the door to my Yukon XL, that gets thirteen miles to the gallon, so that my son and I could go eat our Costco hotdogs; my son surprised me. He pointed to the cemetery and asked, ¨When are we[...]
