Just Do it Doesn’t Work any more after a Tiger Woods Sex Scandal. When sex no longer works in advertising turn on to death. And so it is With Tiger Woods and Nike employing the grim reaper. Try having your father speak from the grave in a video about your misdeeds.
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“Does anyone else find Tiger Woods‘ new Nike commercial exceedingly creepy? In the new Tiger Woods commercial, the golf icon just stands there – staring – while the voice of his dead father, Earl Woods, plays over him. It’s like the intro to a bad horror movie. We’re really not sure if this Nike commercial was the best lead in for Tiger Woods return to golf as the Masters leaderboard in Augusta starts ticking.”-via snarkfood.com
I guess it is kind of natural for Tiger Woods to turn to his father, Earl Woods, the guy who taught him to golf even if it is from beyond the Grave.
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Yes You Can! have a Low Cost Funeral with a Green Burial. This article comes from 2001 the year I entered Mortuary School. The main point of the article a low cost funeral and green burial can just as easily be done now as it was then. I found Mr. Matson’s book to be meaningful reading in Mortuary School.
“Guess what? You’re going to die. Not today (with luck), not tomorrow (you hope), but some day. The Grim Reaper waits. Sure, you already knew that, and you try not to think about it. But before you flip the page, let me tell you the problem with death denial (those undertakers who happily profit on death fears can stop reading now). Ignorance may be bliss when it comes to mortality, but it’s going to cost you. Funerals are often more expensive than we expect, but learning about how much the average funeral costs and how to plan a low-cost funeral can really help save you money. If you have a green funeral, it can be relatively inexpensive, as well as better for the Earth.”
Sadly however overall I have found the funeral industry unreceptive to green burials and the Lower Cost Funeral. I still dream however of the day they will be commonplace. Many however are working to make this dream a reality.
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Will the Ted Kennedy|Funeral and Burial |be the end of the Summer of death? 1969 was the summer love. Will Summer 2009 go down in history as the Summer of Death.?
Senator Tedd Kennedy was Buried at Arlington Nationall Cemerery on August 29th 2009
The Grim Reaper has been very busy this Summer pounding upon his computer keys.
Some of the most popular and well known folks left us in the summer of death 2009. The Grim Reaper has been very busy this Summer pounding upon his computer keys.
Summer of Death Timeline:
08/28/09 DISC JOCKEY DJ AM FOUND DEAD IN NYC
08/26/09 CRIME STORY AUTHOR DOMINICK DUNNE, 83, DIES IN NYC
08/25/09 SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY DIES AT AGE 77
08/19/09 CBS NEWS PIONEER DON HEWITT DIES AT 86
08/18/09 POLITICAL COLUMNIST ROBERT NOVAK DIES AT 78
Senator Edward Kennedy Died August 25th 2009
08/13/09 CHARACTER ACTOR JOHN QUADE DIES AT 71 08/13/09 GUITAR LEGEND LES PAUL DIES AT AGE 94 08/11/09 JFK’S SISTER EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER DIES AT 88)
08/10/09 FOLK MUSIC REVIVALIST MIKE SEEGER DIES AT 75 08/06/09 ’80S TEEN FLICK DIRECTOR JOHN HUGHES DIES IN NYC 07/31/09 CORAZON AQUINO, PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT, DEAD AT 76
07/26/09 EX-BOXING CHAMPION FORREST KILLED AT 38
07/26/09 EX-’IDOL’ CONTESTANT COHEN STRUCK, KILLED BY CAR IN NJ)
07/22/09 TACO BELL AD STAR GIDGET THE CHIHUAHUA DIES AT 15
07/19/09 ‘ANGELA’S ASHES’ AUTHOR FRANK MCCOURT DIES IN NYC AT 78
07/17/09 LEGENDARY CBS ANCHOR WALTER CRONKITE DIES AT 92) 07/06/09 FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA DIES
Grim Reaper has been busy in the Summer of 2009
07/04/09 REPORTS: EX-NFL QUARTERBACK STEVE MCNAIR SHOT DEAD
07/01/09 ] ‘ARE YOU BEING SERVED?’ STAR MOLLIE SUGDEN DIES AT 86 07/01/09 OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR KARL MALDEN DEAD AT 97
07/01/09 ACTOR HARVE PRESNELL DIES OF CANCER AT 75
07/01/09 BOXING HALL OF FAMER ALEXIS ARGUELLO FOUND DEAD
06/29/09 IMPRESSIONIST, VEGAS HEADLINER FRED TRAVALENA DIES
06/28/09 GALE STORM, STAR OF ’50S HIT TV SERIES, DIES AT 87 06/28/09 POLICE: TV PITCHMAN BILLY MAYS FOUND DEAD AT HOME 06/25/09 REPORTS: MICHAEL JACKSON DIES AT 50
Michatl Jackson Died 6.25.09
06/25/09 ‘CHARLIE’S ANGEL’ FARRAH FAWCETT DIES AT 62
06/23/09 [HIYOH!] ‘TONIGHT’ SIDEKICK ED MCMAHON DIES IN LA AT 86
06/13/09 CHRISTIAN ALBIN, ‘CULINARY RIP VAN WINKLE,’ DIES 06/04/09 ACTOR DAVID CARRADINE FOUND DEAD IN BANGKOK .
SURE LOOKS LIKE THE SUMMER OF DEATH TO ME.
Daddy Bush, Dan Rather and Jimmy Carter need to be Especially Care ful- for the next three weeks when Summer Officialy Ends!
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Death happens. We do not like to think about this. The highest cost of a funeral is the death of the person involved. It is often thrust unexpectedly or too quickly upon us. Sometimes out of nowhere it comes to us. Most of the time we get through or escape the grim reaper. There will come a time however when we all will have to rest in peace.
In 2007 Your Funeral Guy had an experience with this. I went to the hospital for a routine test. Within a few hours I was in intensive care. My doctor came in, a friend who closed the door and said You may not get out of here alive.
I actually had been sick for about a year when this happened. I had started a book that helped folks lower the cost of their family funerals. After the the doc left the room I decided I was not going to go until I finished the book. So up came the printer and the computer the book was completed just after I left the hospital.
There is more to the story. I am amazed what I accomplished when I thought I was going to Rest in Peace in a short time. Recently I have been impressed what other folks have done in similar circumstances.
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