November 20, 2008

  • OMG!

    Okay, I'm going to sound like such a nerd, but I'm so excited. I found this awesome app to put on my iPhone that allows me to listen to NPR and KSL newsradio on my iPhone! ANYWHERE!

    This solves many of life's problems. Okay, so maybe just one, but I believe it will be life-changing nevertheless. I am so often in the unlucky situation that I am listening to a riveting news story on NPR, and I get to my destination and I have to GET OUT OF THE CAR.

    It's terrible! I never get to hear the end of the conversation or hear the end of the story that some 90-year-old lady is telling about the Depression.

    But with this amazing application, I can just touch a few buttons on the screen as I get out of the car and my listening is uninterrupted. Doesn't that just make your day? Well, if you are an iPhone user. Otherwise I think I may have just wasted a few minutes of your life.

    Speaking of radio, there was this fascinating piece on there today about funerals. How cremation really isn't very "green" and the most "green" thing to do would be to just wrap people up in a sheet, not embalmed, and bury them in their relative's back yard.

    But even more intriguing to me was the concept of a "Home Funeral." Instead of letting a funeral home take care of cleaning and dressing of the body, family members do it themselves! Now my first thought was, "Eww. Gross. Why would anyone want to do that?" But the more I think about it, the more I like it. For certain close people, of course.

    If some horrible event were to take place, and I were to lose my Jeremy or one of my children, I think the idea of cleaning their body and dressing them for the funeral myself seems kinda nice. It almost seems more natural. I think I'd appreciate the extra day or two to be with their body and say my goodbyes.

    I was shocked at my own thoughts! But it's really growing on me. Hopefully I'll just die first so I never had to deal with it, but in that event, I don't want some stranger being the last person taking care of my husband. I'm his wife and I think it should be me. I want him to look how he supposed to. I think the whole process of preparing him for burial would be kind of a nice way to find closure and move on. Not seeing him for a few days and then seeing this weird, life-like version of him in a coffin would just be so jarring.

    Wow, I have to change the subject or I'm going to start crying. That's so hormonal of me. I'm starting to feel that panicky dread that I had to channel once in acting class when he was "Dying behind this closed closet door right here." Oh. Horrible day in acting class.

    Anyways! I think that's all I have for you today. I have a certain trumpeter that is almost done with after-school band practice and I need to get ready to go pick said trumpeter up. Have a great afternoon everybody!

    What do YOU think about "Home Funerals?" Creepy or comforting?

Comments (3)

  • I really hope I die before Henry. All that kind of stuff would be hard to deal with. I thought endowed members of the Church were dressed and prepared for burial by family members or members of the Relief Society. That's kind of like a "Home Funeral" I guess. I don't know if I could do it. Like you said, it'd have to be someone I was really close to.

  • you know, in the church family members are often the ones who prepare the body. if the dead was endowed, the person preparing the body has to be endowed, but i'm pretty sure it's family members - or whoever you choose it to be. so it's not too freaky really :) well, dead people are a little freaky, but i understand the concept completely and who else would you want with your closest loved ones?

  • I don't usually like Radio West, because I hate Doug Fabrizio, for some reason.  But I caught a little bit of the home funeral stuff last night.  Some of it seemed ok, but the laying to body out on dry ice in the house was a bit much.  I could see having the memorial there, casket and all, but that's about it.  I know church members dress bodies for funerals, but I don't know who does what.  Family, RS, EQ?  Somebody does it.  I just know I don't want to be embalmed, and I want some sort of recycled casket (eco-pod, or the like).

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