Dear Judy,
My live-in partner and I are having the most ridiculous ongoing quarrel, and maybe you can help. He says he’ll read what you have to say, anyway.
The issue: When I die I want to be cremated (He was born Baptist, and wants all the costly hideious trimmings including embalming).
My friend says [...]
Do you have to buy a hideous coffin for a dead relative? Or for that matter any coffin?
“The funeral industry does a great job of having you believe their requirements are the same as state laws,” my friend Jane Hillhouse, the founder of both Colorful Coffins and Final Footprints (www.finalfootprints.com ) tells me. “The only requirement [...]
Dear Judy,
Eight years ago my wife died, leaving me with a son, who is now 14. At the time, I weighed the pros and cons (I even went to a shrink for advice on the subject), and in the end I decided my son should be spared his mother’s funeral. Bad enough he lost her, [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009