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Should children be permitted to attend funerals?

By Matthew Dicks | September 27, 2012 |

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:

Dead? Then why not be the firework? And not dead shark chunks.

By Matthew Dicks | June 18, 2012 |

I have a friend whose funeral plans involve floating her corpse in a boat into Long Island Sound while her friends and family gather on the shore. Once the boat is at a safe distance, it will be detonated as John Lennon’s “Imagine” serenades the bereaved. Best of all, I have been given permission to…