At a wedding, I may feel like a necessary accessory along with the flowers, rented tuxedos, and candles, but at a funeral, I sense people sincerely look to me for help. People are more open and ...
RIO COMMUNITIES Bryan Beard and Claire McFadyen strolled alongside the native willows and yucca plants demarcating rustic, natural gravesites that amount to little more than tidy mounds of earth out ...
The guy standing next to me sighs and starts to cry. He apologizes. I whisper, “I’d be worried if you weren’t crying.” I’m a California-licensed funeral director. I’ve shed a few tears of my own on ...
Jim McMullin speaks for those who can't speak for themselves. Mainly, the dead. McMullin, the 80-year-old president of Grave Concern, a volunteer nonprofit organization promoting preservation, ...