Today marks the start of an unusual event in the UK – Dying Matters Awareness Week. The national awareness week is said to be a tool for encouraging people to talk openly about death, dying, and bereavement — topics that many often label taboo. Incidentally, Valley of Life believes talking about death-related topics is extremely healthy and even has a new resource that’s a perfect supplement to the discussion.
The Moyer Foundation recently announced plans to continue its national expansion of bereavement camps for children and teens by adding eight new cities to host Camp Erin in 2010.
Planning your own funeral can be the best and last gift you ever give to your loved ones.
The remains of some of the United State’s earliest Chinese settlers will finally have a chance to be laid to rest next month after five years of uncertainty. Their original graves were unearthed during the construction of a light rail line in east Los Angeles sparking years of debate and discussion over how best to honor them. Now, these early immigrants have been honored with a memorial wall at Evergreen Cemetery in LA, the cemetery where their remains will be laid to rest.
Mary Josephine Ray died Sunday in New Hampshire as the oldest woman living in the United States and the second oldest in the world. She is the oldest person ever recorded to live in New Hampshire. The Maplewood County Nursing Home in Westmoreland reported that she died peacefully in her sleep. Yesterday, she was 114 years, 294 days old.
