by Judy Weaver Gonyeau, managing editor Cremation as a form of burial goes back to the Neolithic or Stone Age, making it one of the oldest traditions in the […]
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by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “MOURNING—Court, Family, and Complimentary—The Proprietors of the London General Mourning Warehouse, Nos. 247 and 249 Regent-street, beg respectfully to remind families whose bereavements compel them […]
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor The arrangement and placement of flowers around the dead are considered the oldest act of mourning. During the 1951 excavation of the Shandiar Cave […]
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While not a favorite topic for discussion, “death care is one of man’s oldest professions,” according to Robert L. Waltrip, an undertaker turned collector on the topic. In 1992, Waltrip […]
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by Jessica Kosinski When it comes to collecting death-related items, a large category on which you may choose to focus is funeral home advertising. In the early days, advertisements […]
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by Maxine Carter-Lome Mourning attire has evolved throughout the centuries but one thing that has remained constant, at least in western civilizations, is the wearing of the color black. Originally […]
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Every culture – ever religion – every person mourns in their own way. The sentiment behind that expression, however, is universal; honoring a loved one in a way that publicly […]
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Every culture – every religion – every person – mourns in their own way. The sentiment behind that expression, however, is universal: honoring a loved one in a way that publicly […]
