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06/27/2024

Share memories & support the family

04/10/2024

04/27/2023

Share memories & support the family

10/04/2022

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10/22/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/magazine/how-to-scatter-cremated-remains.html?fbclid=IwAR2UpyXhbETDur_BJahJLgcu43lpTop_29ZhHUZ2f949LzCMujtOx2blT4Q

Keep your back to the wind. Start and end with some kind of ritual. Scatter with intention.

05/07/2020

In these difficult times that we are facing

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07/31/2019

An Arizona man says a body donation center where FBI agents reported finding buckets of human organs and a Frankenstein-like body sold his mother's body to the U.S. Army for "blast testing." Jim Stauffer told Phoenix television station KNXV on Tuesday that he contacted the Biological Resource Center...

06/17/2019

The last wishes of Alexander the Great.

On his death bed, Alexander summoned his army generals and told them his 3 ultimate wishes:
1. The best doctors should carry his coffin.
2. The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should be scattered along the procession to the cemetery.
3. His hands should be let loose, so they hang outside the coffin for all to see.
One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain.
Here is what Alexander had to say:
1. "I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal”
2. "I want the road to be covered with my treasures so that everybody sees that material wealth acquired on earth, will stay on earth"
3. I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is time.
We do not take to our grave any material wealth. Time is our most precious treasure because it is limited. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time.
When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back. Our time is our life.
The best present that you can give someone is your time.
-Alex Broches