Element by Element: One Stone, a Virgen de Guadalupe Headstone
Good evening, lights down, please, and thank you for coming. For this lecture, we have selected the composition of one single monument:...
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The Year After: One Timeline, Many Traditions
"Grief has no timetable," the adage goes - but it seems humanity has a plan to disagree. Line up the grief customs practiced around the...
The Thread: Two Siblings Figure Out How to Talk to Mom and Dad About a Headstone
There's one question families ask in a hundred versions: how do we even bring it up? Pre-need planning - the process of selecting a hea...
Green Burial Glossary: The Working Terms for Families Considering a Natural Farewell
Every movement starts developing its vocabulary before it begins doing anything else. Green burial, the return to the more environmenta...
The Family Tree of Monument Forms: A Genealogy of All Shapes in the Cemetery, From Ancestors to Descendants
In the process of researching a monument, each family will come across such terms as "upright", "slant", "bevel", "flat marker", "ledge...
Seven Angels, Seven Jobs: Your Hiring Guide to Angel Headstones and the Figures Families Request Most
When a family picks out an angel for their memorial stone, they ask, inevitably and correctly, "which one?" and the truth is that angel...
An Atlas of Last Words: How the World Writes Its Epitaphs
Turn the pages of any atlas and learn about the rivers and borders - go through the cemeteries of the world, learn about the difference...
What to Say at the Cemetery: The Scripts for the Questions Children Ask
Parents planning to bring their child to the cemetery the first time practice everything but the most important thing: the exact wordin...
A Manners Manual for Cemetery Etiquette: On Visiting Graves Considerately
Conduct manuals once offered guidance in every social landscape - from dining rooms to dance halls to condolences in letters - and then...
Planner for the Headstone Unveiling: A Countdown to the Dedication Ceremony
Weddings are planned with binders and funerals without any, but the ceremony in between - the headstone unveiling ceremony, the dedicat...
