Quickie Wednesday
Interesting piece from Canada on home funerals in which a ‘death midwife’ (gotta find a better term than that!) acknowledges that funeral directors can, in the right circumstances, do the job as well as her. She’s right, of course. Good funeral directors are not the enemy. Read it
From Pam Vetter’s newsletter, this tragic account of a car crash which killed three generations of a Mennonite family. They were musicians. Hear them sing here.
And now I’m off to spend the day with my friend Teresa Evans.
Pip-pip!
posted by Charles Cowling at
09:51
2 Comments:
Good stuff Charles. What springs out at me though, is only 24 hours passing between the mother dying and her removal to a crematorium. UK paperwork and doctor's certificates aside, I think this is an astonishingly quick turn around. The first thing we say to a family is "There's no rush," as one of the biggest regrets a family has is doing everything too quickly. They are missing an opportunity for the emotions to evolve. Let's not forget, we are in a different sort of time here.
Thanks for mentioning Pam Vetter's loving newsletter and the tragic car crash story.
Pam has been a great encouragement to me in advocating a better funeral industry. I do my best to follow her example of a servant with a pure heart.
Although i wail on the corruption in the funeral profession, the pure heart for serving families is the best weapon of all.
Your Funeral Guy
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