Farrington Mortuary & Cremation

12/08/2024

NZ is a magnificent masterpiece 🥝

02/08/2024

https://medium.com//going-gently-mortuary-owner-eases-anxiety-of-planning-funerals-419fea88eaf5

Interview with Lindsay Farrington; owner of Farrington Mortuary in Los Angeles, California

10/20/2023

Memorial service from last weekend for a very loved, cool dude! Family entrusted me to take care of everything (they live in Japan & don’t speak much English) - feeling very grateful for the faith they put in me! Last photo was my inspo (taken from a Japanese funeral)

07/26/2023

Fighting against Hollywood slime with some niche picketing

04/12/2023

Little Lindsay never imagined she’d be posing next to dead people in blue silk outfits, but here we are and there’s no place I’d rather be 💐

04/07/2023

IG official

03/10/2023

Check out yours truly in ! Thank you! 🥰 Flowers and Urn obviously & 💛

03/06/2023

Was invited to a traditional Sikh service at the gurdwara from a family I did a Hindu funeral for (born Hindu, practicing Sikh).
I didn’t take photos of the ceremony since I wanted to be respectful & enjoy the moment - but I felt inclined to share because it’s so special to me when I become instantly close with a family and they invite me in to experience their religion. It makes my heart/life feel so full. Gotta love a day filled with God, new friends and good food.

01/24/2023

BTS

01/06/2023

Sneak peak into a Kotsuage - Kotsuage is a Shinto (indigenous faith of the Japanese people) tradition when the family gathers after the cremation of a loved one to pick up the bones. Unfortunately (due to regulations in CA) the family wasn’t permitted to do the picking of the bones, but I (funeral director) was permitted to.

Kotsuage is traditionally done with a special pair of chopsticks - made of different woods to symbolize the separation between the world of the dead and the world of the living. It’s a metaphor for the coming together of these two worlds for this sacred practice.

Shinto is a spiritual practice more than a religion that is primarily about aligning humanity with nature - inducing a sense of wonder, humility and openness. Shinto doesn’t say much about death or the afterlife, just that we all have strong spiritual ancestors on our side. Shinto is the relationship between unique individual life and the collective life of Great Nature (ie why the chopsticks are made of different types of wood)

Kotsuage is just one part of this transition from a living person to a spiritual ancestor. The dead still have a strong presence in the lives of Japanese families, and this is just one of the many examples of that.

I always feel so honored to be able to participate in rich cultural traditions such as Shinto - makes me feel so close to source/God in every way possible 🇯🇵🏯🥰

01/01/2023

Small 2022 recap

12/15/2022

Next time someone says funeral homes charge too much money…please give them a friendly reminder of how we wash out brain from the hair after a gunshot wound to the head. All done in love & service, of course ✌️🕊