Change Is In The Wind

Wow, 1canalgirl.com received a new format, I hope you like it. Thanks to Tony Greene for an awesome job!

There is a survey that has been added that I would like everyone who visits my blog to answer. You may find the questions to be unusual, and at first you might not even want to answer them, but if you would be so kind to take the time, you will be happy you did.

The survey is about something we don’t talk about every day in normal conversations. It is about today’s options available to us for burial. We face losing and unexpectedly lose loved ones and then we realize we have to think about something we hardly ever want to think about; funerals and burial. Everyone is familiar with funeral homes, and they often help you decide how to pick a burial plot. Cemeteries have been the same for years and years, but this is your loved ones final resting place. Would you like these options to change? How or what would you like to be different. What would help you bring honor to the life of that loved one, where future generations could know what kind of person and what passions your loved one had in their life?

My first personal experience with death was losing my first born child, she was born too early. Today the doctors could save her, she weighed 2lbs, but in 1970 the technology didn’t exist to save such little preemies. The choice that I had for her at death caused me as much grief as losing her. I would have gladly welcomed other options, but they didn’t exist.

My second personal experience with death was my youngest brother, who was an identical twin and he was killed by a drunk driver. David was 25 years old. His identical twin Dan has two girls, and we always tried to share with them about their Uncle David, as they can’t remember him. So many families would have the same feelings of wanting to honor the lives of their loved ones.

When you lose a loved one unexpectedly, it takes so much longer to deal with the truth of it all. You look back over their life and remember so much that will not be passed on. When you lose someone from a terminal illness, you still aren’t prepared for the pain you feel at the loss of their presence, how will you remember them?

My Grandfather was like a Dad to me, since he died from lung cancer, there has been a aching in my heart to honor the life that he lived, what made him be so loved. Now his son, my Uncle is in hospice with lung cancer, and he has been like a Dad to me too. He has friends all over the world, for everyone he meets is his friend. How can I honor his life and all he has contributed to those he knows and his family who loves him?

If you have these thoughts, please fill out the survey for me. I will share in future posts my passion for how I would like to change the burial industry. Change is in the Wind!

Robin