Posts Tagged ‘dead’
Death bed regrets revisited: 2015
Four years ago, I responded to a list of the most frequent death bed regrets of the dying by indicating that I didn’t think any of them would be mine. Then I listed what I thought would be my most likely death bed regrets. At the time, they were: I did not travel enough. I…
Read MoreThere was a dead man in our hotel room.
Slate asks: What protocol does a hotel follow when a guest is found dead? Turns out I have a little bit of experience with this question. When I was 23 years-old, my friend and I went on vacation to Myrtle Beach, South Caroline and Orlando, Florida. We drove south by car, stopping in Myrtle Beach…
Read MoreI worry that George R.R. Martin will die before finishing his Song of Fire and Ice series, and yes, that’s not a nice thing to think.
George R.R. Martin is the author of the popular Song of Fire and Ice series which you may know better as Game of Thrones. He’s currently writing the sixth of that was originally going to be seven books in the series, though he recently hinted that there may be an eighth. Martin is 65 years-old.…
Read MoreShould children be permitted to attend funerals?
Earlier this week, I joined a panel on the Huffington Post’s online television network to discuss the appropriateness of children attending funerals for deceased friends and relatives. Here is the video of our discussion:
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