death and dying

"You are your fathers daughter"

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What does it all mean? Lately, I've just had a lot to say.

Our lives are filled with relationships. Good one's, bad one's, one's that don't mean anything in the end.
Some of them are good, some are wrought with drama and headache, sometimes you can pick the relationships you want
like with your friends but some relationships like family you are stuck with no matter what.  Read More »

Grief and fatherless daughters

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Its' been quite awhile since I posted here last. I've been dealing with a lot of things lately and while I have been writing and blogging on my personal blog journal I have neglected this site some.

I have lost family members before. It started when I was 16 and my brother died of an inoperable brain tumor.  Read More »

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Funeral Cost of the Future: No Vault, No Casket, No Embalming.

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Funeral Cost of the Future: No Vault, No Casket, No Embalming

"In the near future you will not need to have a casket, vault or embalming.."

Two 'green' cemeteries in the state of Maine reject embalming, expensive caskets and vaults....these cemeteries are recently created.  Read More »

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grandmother's hands

The clouds are a mass of bubbling white froth, in a milky sea that stretches on, with no end. They part only where the Volcano has pierced through, a giant, dark and imposing contrast to the clouds. Veins anchor the mountain to its base in tendrils that vanish beneath the froth.  Read More »

There's Still Hope

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I was reading a lot of blogs saying how terrible God must be for sending people who don't believe in Him, unbaptized babies to Hell, and how He makes it impossible for anyone to go to Heaven unless they're Catholic. I almost believed it until I remembered something very important.  Read More »

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The Quote to remember

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So many people have their own opinion about the war in Iraq or war in general. Personally I could talk for days about it and never quite fully explain my feelings. However I found a passage among Tim O'Brien's great novel "The things they carried", which I think gives the greatest explanation of war I have ever heard...  Read More »

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Death and Accepting it

We never know when it will happen but we know that death is a part of life. Many people deal with death and many different ways because we all grieve differently. I really want to know if we will ever be able to accept death. I don't have much of a hard time dealing with it but I know some people that take death really hard. What do we say when someone tells us that they have lost a loved one?  Read More »

The End(s)

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