A spine-tingling video showing around 200 New Zealand soldiers performing the Maori haka at the funeral of three fallen comrades has gone viral. Members of the 2nd and 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment performed the ancestral war cry … [Read More...]
Personalized Funerals in Canada and Around the World
Explaining death to a child
By Tracy Grant, Published: August 10 Fair warning: This is a column about talking to your child about death. Not exactly the feel-good read of the summer. So I understand if your reaction is “I don’t really want to deal with this now.” That’s … [Read More...]
Ashes to diamonds: B.C. company turns family cremations into gems
Rene de Diego was very close to his grandfather and wound up with his ashes after his death. “I didn’t really know what to do,” said de Diego. But the Vancouver man did some research and found out there were companies making ‘memorial’ … [Read More...]
Funeral fashion faux-pas
Kyla Tichkowsky remembers exactly what she wore to her friend Darren Zenko’s funeral last month — a collared bright green sundress that hit her just above the knees. Wearing black never occurred to her, mostly because it didn’t properly express … [Read More...]
3 Things Your Funeral Director Wants You to Know
Funeral directors are an interesting bunch. On a professional and personal level, they’re following a lifelong desire to serve the dead and help the living. Yet despite funeral facilitation being around since the beginning of human history, working … [Read More...]
A Life in Black and White
In the last decade penguins have been making quite a cultural impact around the world. With movies like Surf’s Up, March of the Penguins, Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Happy Feet one and two; the knighthood of Nils Olav, the King Penguin living in Edinburgh … [Read More...]
