Don Meredith’s Journey Back Home to Mount Vernon
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As you may expect, the final arrangements a client makes prior to passing are often times as defining as any particular event or episode in their lives. At Martin Oaks Cemetery and Crematory here in Lewisville Texas, we have often noted that the choice of a grave marker, the inscription on that marker, the care with […]
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Great Expectations and the Morgan Library
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Talk about scary moments in cemeteries. At Martin Oaks Cemetery and Crematory, we have some stories, but perhaps the most frightening cemetery moment of all for us occurs at the beginning of David Lean’s magnificent film of Charles Dickens “Great Expectations.” This being the end of December, the unofficial Dickensian month of the year (especially […]
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Death in Sports
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This week the New York Times ran a feature piece on Jeff Charles, a high school football coach who left the game after one of his players was killed during an October 2011 Friday night game. The player, Ridge Barden, was a defensive tackle for Homer High School in Homer, New York – a cerebral […]
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The Decision to Witness a Cremation
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Witnessing or viewing a cremation is not a new practice. In fact, it dates back to the Bronze Age where burning a corpse was a common procedure. Romans sometimes practiced a rather peculiar ritual: they would cremate a body, but bury a severed finger from the body. The theory behind this is that some part […]
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Put Down Your Burdens and Live Longer
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Laura Kubzansky, Harvard professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, sums it up best when she says that being involved in the moment, finding a restorative state is the best way to relieve life’s burden and stay healthy. Kubzansky is one of the many researchers doing groundbreaking work on “toxic stress” and the effect it […]
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