People need to realize that a memorial service can be held anywhere, a park, a museum, community center, a backyard or a home. The casket does not have to be present. This can save you lots of money on funeral cost.
Snippet from a recent DearAbby:
Dear Abby: My parents passed away within two years of each other. Instead of funerals, we held celebration-of-life services.
We created slide shows and poster boards of their lives, told funny stories about them, and had people share their stories.
Here is the Full text of the President Obama Eulogy at The Memorial Funeral Service and Celebration of Life for Senator Robert Byrd Given on July 2nd 2010 at the State House In West Virginia.
“It’s a life that immeasurably improved the lives of West Virginians. Of course, Robert Byrd was a deeply religious man, a Christian. And so he understood that our lives are marked by sins as well as virtues, failures as well as success, weakness as well as strength.
We know there are things he said — and things he did — that he came to regret. I remember talking about that the first time I visited with him. He said, “There are things I regretted in my youth. You may know that.” And I said, “None of us are absent some regrets, Senator. That’s why we enjoy and seek the grace of God.”
And as I reflect on the full sweep of his 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent towards justice. Like the Constitution he tucked in his pocket, like our nation itself, Robert Byrd possessed that quintessential American quality, and that is a capacity to change, a capacity to learn, a capacity to listen, a capacity to be made more perfect.
Over his nearly six decades in our Capitol, he came to be seen as the very embodiment of the Senate, chronicling its history in four volumes that he gave to me just as he gave to President Clinton. I, too, read it. I was scared he was going to quiz me. (Laughter.)
But as I soon discovered, his passion for the Senate’s past, his mastery of even its most arcane procedures, it wasn’t an obsession with the trivial or the obscure. It reflected a profoundly noble impulse, a recognition of a basic truth about this country that we are not a nation of men, we are a nation of laws. Our way of life rests on our democratic institutions. Precisely because we are fallible, it falls to each of us to safeguard these institutions, even when it’s inconvenient, and pass on our republic more perfect than before.
Considering the vast learning of this self-taught Senator — his speeches sprinkled with the likes of Cicero and Shakespeare and Jefferson — it seems fitting to close with one of his favorite passages in literature, a passage from Moby Dick:
“And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than any other bird upon the plain, even though they soar.”
Robert Byrd was a mountain eagle, and his lowest swoop was still higher than the other birds upon the plain. (Applause.)
May God bless Robert C. Byrd. May he be welcomed kindly by the righteous Judge. And may his spirit soar forever like a Catskill eagle, high above the Heavens. Thank you very much.”
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The WHITE HOUSE REVERSED THE IST STATEMENT | Michelle Obama's Father is not buried at Burr Oak Cemetery
President Obama will be present at Senator Robert Byrd’s Memorial Service in West Virginia on Friday according to a White House Press Release, Odds are he will give a Eulogy. He has done that at every Public Funeral he has been at since he has been in office.
The President usually speaks everywhere he goes from a teleprompter. Things will probably be no different on June 2nd, 2010. The photo opportunity and Live Streaming Video will help MR. OBAMA’s Poll Numbers.
Snippet From USA Today:
“Both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will travel to West Virginia on Friday to attend the funeral of Sen. Robert Byrd.
The Memorial Service and Celebration of Life for the 92-year-old senator will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the State Capitol in Charleston, W. Va.”-via content.usatoday.com
Vice President Biden will be there as well.
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Just 5 months after The Movie Star Brittany Murphy was found dead in the shower, her controversial widower “Simon Monjack” has died. There is no news of a public Funeral plan or Funeral arrangement at this time.
Brittany Murphy's widower has died
Actress Brittany Murphy’s widower and British screenwriter Simon Monjack was found dead at his home in Hollywood.
According to reports, the Los Angeles fire department was called shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday to respond to ‘an unspecified medical aid request’. Monjack was pronounced dead after attempts to resuscitate him failed.
Police Sergeant Louie Lozano said that the cause of death was unknown.
‘We have detectives at scene. They are conducting their investigation. Once we have further information, we will provide it,’ the telegraph.co.uk quoted Lozano as saying.
Monjack’s death comes just five months after his wife Murphy died after collapsing in the shower.via sify.com
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For some facebook is a continual Open Casket, a way to communicate with the dead long after they are gone. This has special appeal for the generation that grew up on My Space and continues their life on Facebook.
A Facebook Profile can be a perpetual memorial.
...a search ofFacebook groups titled In Memory of
turned up more than 55,000 results, and a search for
Rest in Peace turned up more than 14,000.
Facebook is a great place for online memorials
For the generation that spent high school on MySpace andcollege on Facebook, its only natural to seek out the Web in times of need.
When Northwestern freshman Trevor Boehm died in November 2008, friends and family members flocked to a common gathering spot to mourn together and share their disbelief: Facebook. It was all many of them could do, since his three older sisters were back home in Monument, Colo., and high school friends were away at colleges all over the United States. Initially reported missing by his parents when they arrived for Parents’ Weekend and couldn’t locate him, 20-year-old Boehm’s body was found several days later in Lake Michigan near Chicago’s Montrose harbor. News of a candlelight vigil and two funerals, one at Northwestern and one at home, were spread through the “Rest in Peace Trevor Jon Boehm” memorial group on Facebook.
Many friends posted photos in the group or wrote messages on his personal page, expressing their grief and saying how much they would miss him. But more than a year after his death, Trevor Boehm’s Facebook friends are still writing to him, updating him on Nip/Tuck episodes he’s missed and Thai dinners he couldn’t attend. “Writing on his Facebook gives me a way to communicate with him because I feel like somehow he knows what’s being written,” says Ali Boehm, his older sister. “I go on there whenever I have a memory or thought of him. It’s a good outlet for just proactively communicating with him.”
A Facebook Profile can be a perpetual “OPEN CASKET” As Facebook and other social networking Web sites become more important to human interaction, these technologies are changing the way people cope with loss. In a world where our digital lives are as real those offline, a person’s Facebook profile postmortem is a virtual open casket. -via www.dailynorthwestern.com
For those who choose to ignore the Facebook Memoralization Option, and do not close the deceased’s account FACEBOOK BECOMES AN ALMOST PERPETUAL MEMORIAL.
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