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Original Technorati articles tagged “funerals”

• in Politics
  Omar bin Laden Angry About Father's Burial
  Omar bin Laden complains about his father's burial at sea, and talks of suing the U.S.
  by elizabethross / on May 11, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  So Many Choices, So Little Time
  To create, or not to cremate. That is the question. What would Hamlet do?
  by docentman / on May 27, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “funerals”

 

• Watch: Chris Smith Eulogizes His Late Kriss Kross Partner Chris Kelly

  
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  Last week we learned the tragic news that Kriss Kross member Chris Kelly (aka the Mac Daddy) passed away at the age of 34 after an apparent drug overdose. A day later we heard from his Kriss Kross partner Chris Smith (aka the Daddy Mac) as he commented on the death of his longtime friend. [...]
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• The Burial of Tamerlan

  
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  Nobody wanted his body. The Worcester police chief asked for assistance in burying the terrorist, the Boston bomber.  An anonymous individual stepped up and the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried at an undisclosed location in the middle of...
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• Viral Video Inspires More Kid Friendly Alternatives to Funerals

  
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  A  YouTube video  of a man and his family giving a waitress a $500 tip is making its way across social media sites. What makes this video special isn’t that the man gives this waitress a $500 tip. It’s the explanation the man gives the waitress for his generosity. The man in the video is the brother of Aaron ...
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• What You Should Know about Funeral Makeup

  
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  When you opt for a body viewing or an open casket during funeral planning, there is quite a bit of preparation that has to go in to making the body of the deceased presentable. In addition to techniques like embalming, it is the job of a funeral makeup artist to provide a serene, lifelike pallor to the deceased’s ...
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• (CNS) Elderly face danger of ‘covert euthanasia,’ Pope Francis says in book

  
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  While the fight to preserve life is often centered on abortion and capital punishment, the future Pope Francis also warned against a more subtle form of disregard for human dignity: what he called "covert euthanasia." "In this consumerist, hedonist and narcissistic society, we are accustomed to the idea that there ...
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• WORST FUNERAL EVER!

  
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  By Debbie Schlussel OMG, I think I just got back from the WORST. FUNERAL. EVER! Earlier today, I went to the funeral for my 90-year-old neighbor of 11.5 years, who just died of cancer. I was shocked by what I heard. It was the most rude, most absurd eulogy ever. I believe that real Jewish [...]
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• QUAERITUR: Could a Catholic terrorist be denied funeral and burial?

  
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  From a reader: Father if the Boston bomber was catholic could the church refuse to give him a funeral or burial in catholic cemetary under cannon law? To the first question: Yes, the Church could refuse him a funeral. We read in the Latin Code: canon 1184: §1  “Unless they gave some signs of repentance ...
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• Memorial turned misdemeanor

  
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  Nat, Owen’s older brother, has memorialized Owen’s death by throwing flowers into the Petaluma River on his own birthday (Nat’s), every year since Owen died.  His body was found in the River on June 2, 2007, a few weeks after the two of them had celebrated Nat’s birthday together, and less than two weeks ...
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• The Family Thats Buried Together, Stays Together

  
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  The standing joke about cemeteries is that they are so popular, people are dying to get in. Apparently, some people have to go to greater lengths than others,  as was recently demonstrated in the peculiar case of  Smith v. Cataraqui Cemetery Company , 2013 ONSC 2468 (CanLII). While estate practitioners sometimes ...
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• Granny, Mother’s Day 2010, taken with the Blackbird Fly

  
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  Granny, Mother’s Day: Blackbird Fly , originally uploaded by pinstripe_bindi . My maternal grandmother died last week. She was 93 and my sole remaining grandparent. She hadn’t been well in a few months; she had oral surgery last summer to remove the few teeth she still had because they were becoming impacted, ...
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• The Cost Of Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral

  
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  When former Margaret Thatcher died recently, even her death caused quite a stir among the entire country.  Those that admired her were saddened, and those that despised her had parties; perhaps in bad taste, but the country was once again divided. But one thing there was no division about, and that was she was to ...
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• Self-Promotion

  
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  As with all these things, sound-bites don’t capture nuance, but it was a fun interview to do and the picture is quite cool. Copyright Canterbury Times Why did you become a priest? I had a growing sense of God calling me into full-time ministry. Ordination is a sense of being called out to represent God ...
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• Obama Attends Memorial for Those Killed in Texas Blast

  
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  The president praised the courage of firefighters and others who responded after an explosion at a fertilizer plant last week.        
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• Weeping and alleluias

  
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  Today I attended the funeral of someone Ive known since I was twelve - when I started secondary school, even though we were at different schools, I inherited her copy of Paterson & MacNaughtons Approach to Latin Book 1 . Her parents lived two doors from mine, and as I sat listening to the minister talking about ...
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• South Carolina honoring firefighting recruit who has moved forward after family killed in 2006

  
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  When Christan Rainey joined other firefighter recruits on an orientation tour of North Charleston, he grew silent as they passed by the mobile home where his family once lived. Rainey, 28, had not laid eyes on the old homestead in Ferndale in seven years. Not since his mother and four siblings, ages 6 to 16, were ...
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• US: Sheriff warns anti-gay church to stay away from Texas fertiliser blast funerals

  
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  The homophobic Westboro Baptist Church has been told to stay away from the funerals of those killed in last week’s fertiliser plant explosion in Texas. Westboro plans to be in Waco on Thursday to demonstrate outside memorial services for firefighters who died in the blast. The church praised God for the ...
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• Boston Suspect Charged With Using ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’

  
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  The surviving suspect in the marathon bombings, who officials said admitted to a role in the attacks, was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.        
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• Funeral Urns are Personal

  
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  You should not pick out funeral urns in the same manner you pick out running shoes. Your shoes should reflect your personality, but burial urns should reflect the personality of the deceased. There are few possessions that you will carry with you through the rest of your life. Every time you look at your urn, you want ...
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• Victims Remembered as Boston Suspect Is Charged

  
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  Services were held on Monday for two of the marathon bombing victims as the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was formally charged.        
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• The Last Word

  
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  There is something inherently beautiful about being there when someone is brought into this world. There is also something inherently beautiful about being with them when they leave it. If you are lucky enough to be there, if you have the privilege of being there, you feel emotions you’ve never felt before. You ...
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