Aggregate Death
The Undertaker
(The gender pronouns are slightly outdated in this poem, but it’s easy enough to substitute she for he.)
Written by Darlene Rush
This is for the undertaker,
Whose story is sad to tell,
For what he does is never mentioned,
and often overlooked as well.
He’s not at all what you might picture,
He’s not wrinkled, old and gray.
His face is not the pasty white,
Like storybooks portray.
Some people laugh and make their jokes,
And some turn up their nose,
And many think that he is strange,
For the life that he has chose.
But there are many things that they don’t see,
And even more that they don’t know.
Like all the nights he gets no rest,
But never lets it show.
I have seen him work both day and night,
With no time to eat or sleep.
To care for those in mourning,
And comfort those who weep.
The load he carries on his shoulders,
Is more than you or I could bear.
But he always seems to find the time,
To show you that he cares.
So when you see the undertaker,
Make sure you see the man,
That does the job that no one wants
And that no one understands.
Take the time to shake his hand,
And a moment to just say “hi.”
I think you’ll find the undertaker,
Is just an ordinary guy.
What happens if a pacemaker is cremated?
If not removed before cremation, pacemakers will explode causing upwards of $10K in damages to the retort’s inner brick lining.
Photo sourced from the internet.
Asian Doctors Bow to Organ Donors: Six Stories
I can’t be 100% certain that all of these stories are entirely correct as a couple have been sourced from Reddit.
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Chinese doctors bowing down to a 11 year old boy diagnosed with brain cancer who managed to save several lives by donating his organs to the hospital he was being treated in shortly before his death. Via Reddit.
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An 8-year-old died from head injury, but her donated organs saved/bettered four lives. The doctors are bowing to thank her for her kidney, liver and cornea. Via Reddit.
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Doctors and nurses bow to an organ donor to show their respect in Kunming, Yunnan Province, in July 2013. Via Global Times
4.
Doctors bow to a deceased male organ donor before an operation to extract his corneas in Rizhao, Shandong Province. Via Global Times. 
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China’s former deputy health ministor Huang Jiefu (c.) and colleagues bow in tribute to a deceased patient who donated her organs at a hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in November 2012. Via Daily News.
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Feng Lei, gives her daughter Feng Junxi a final kiss at a hospital in Beijing, capital of China, June 9, 2012. A couple from Chifeng in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region decided to donate their daughter Feng Junxi’s body organs after her death.
Medical workers bowed to Feng Junxi, the little girl whose parents donated her organs after her death in Beijing, capital of China, June 9, 2012. Via Kindness Blog.
An Open Letter from a Dutch Father Who Lost His Daughter in the MH17 Attack
Those who experience sudden bereavement (like the families of those lost in the MH17 attack) are more likely to experience traumatic grief. Traumatic grief brings with it a slew of thoughts and reactions, including both anger and bitterness. As you can see in the letter below, this beautiful girl’s father (as we can imagine) is just having an awful time. And he (in what is likely a healthy response) allows his thoughts, feelings and grief an avenue of expression in this letter (that has been translated to English) written to Putin.
English version – made by Lennart Peeters.
Thank you very much mister Putin, leaders of the separatists or the Ukraine government!For murdering my loved and only child, Elsemiek de Borst!
She was 17 years old, 5th “gymnasium” student at the “Segbroek College” in Den Haag.
And she was on her way to her holiday in Maleisië together with her little brother, her mom (my ex-wife) and her stepfather.
Elsemiek would have done her final school exams next year, together with her best friend Julia and Marina, she did so good in school!
After that she wanted to go to the “Technical University Delft” to study engineering, she was looking forward to it!But suddenly she is not here anymore! She has been shot out of the sky, in an unknown country, where there is a war going on!
Aforementioned misters, I hope you’re proud to have shot her, amongst other, young life and future.
And that you will be able to look at yourself in the mirror tomorrow morning.I hope you will receive this message, maybe translated in English (what you as a intelligent gentleman could read just fine)
Thanks again!
Regards, Elsemieks father Hans de Borst from Monster, The Netherlands, whose life is ruined!!
PS mister Putin, I hope that your intense conversation with our prime-minster Rutte opened your eyes!
I know you are impressed by this and I would find it impressive if you took the initiative to guard the crash-sight with the Russian military, so the Dutch investigators can do their job.
Thanks in advance.
You can read more HERE and HERE.
