Caleb Wilde
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The Feels and Funnies: 13 Death Related Photos I Found on the Internet
1. I would go. Free pizza and death. It’s a no brainer.
2. Via Growing Bolder: After watching her husband, mother, father and mother-in-law suffer lingering deaths, 81-yea-old grandmother Joy Tompkins got ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ on her chest and ‘PTO’ (Please Turn Over) on her back.
Tompkins, who lives in Norfolk in the UK says, ‘I do not want to be half dead, I want to be fully dead. It might have been different when I was 51 but I am 81 now. Everybody has to die sometime but I do not want to end up as a vegetable. I am afraid that the medical profession will, with the best of medical intentions I hope, keep me alive when I don’t want to be alive. I don’t want to lie for hours, months or even years before dying. I don’t want my family to remember me as a lump.” — 
3. From Imgur: “My grandma wanted to see the ocean one last time before checking into hospice. Her face says it all.”
4. “Everything can be completed in the comfort of your own home.” Hmmmm. This kind of sounds suspicious to me : / 
5. Neil deGrasse Tyson dropping truth bombs.
6. Just when you thought Nicolas Cage was immortal, he goes out and buys a pyramid tombstone. Via Examiner 
7. Kimberly shared this picture with me on my “Confessions of a Funeral Director” facebook wall. Keep it classy, Dignity. 
8. This is actually a REALLY good deal. 
9. From Garth:
10. Best Halloween party setup ever
11. Ever since I was a child (Chronicles of Narnia fan), I’ve loved C.S. Lewis.
12. This is me at the 2014 National Funeral Directors Association Convention in Nashville (I led a session on social media and transparency). Alkaline hydrolysis anyone?
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That shiny thing behind me is a resomator. I know. You’re jealous. #nfda2014
Keeping Your Dead Husband on the Living Room Floor for Nine Months So You Can Keep Collecting his Social Security Benefits
While it’s possible this woman is suffering from some form and/or degree of mental illness, this story is nonetheless a WTF kinda story.
By Katelyn Murphy:
INDIANAPOLIS (CNN/Kate Murphy)– A Lafayette woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her husband, which went unreported for months.
Ila Solomon, 55, was taken into custody Thursday on charges of welfare fraud, theft, failure to report a dead body, failure to file a death certificate and unlawful disposition of a dead human body.
Of particular note, prosecutors allege that Solomon was illegally cashing her husband’s social security and pension checks, even while he lied dead on the floor for months.
Solomon’s husband — Gerald Gavan, 88 — was found dead May 3 in the living room of their home, nine months after he had died.
In an interview with RTV6 in August, Solomon said her husband wanted to be part of a ritual in India where vultures consume human bodies after death.
“I just think that somebody who did so much for the United States should have the death he wanted, that’s all,” Solomon said. “He just wanted to be eaten by the birds to be part of the cycle of life.”
“Plan number two would be for me to take him outside or him to die outside so that the birds could eat him here, but that didn’t happen, instead he died right there,” Solomon told reporter Drew Smith.
Solomon said Gavan died April 28th of this year from a stroke. The Tippecanoe County coroner disagreed, saying a forensic entomologist determined Gavan had been dead since at least July 2013 before officers discovered his body on his living room floor in May.
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