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Tag Archives: death
Worried about you
I spend time with an eighty-something man who is bedridden and not very communicative, at least not until yesterday. Until yesterday, I haven’t even been sure how well his mind is working. I hadn’t had a conversation with him that … Continue reading
‘He died climbing’
It’s been said that high in the Alps there is a monument to a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded amateur in inclement weather. According to the story, the monument contains these words: “He … Continue reading
Loving the curmudgeon
Last Friday I asked for advice on speaking at a curmudgeon’s funeral. The response was overwhelmingly kind. Today’s Catch contains one sentence from each one who wrote in, and I was rebuked by the overall attitude from all who took … Continue reading
The funeral of an unrepentant curmudgeon
Think of the most ornery cuss of a person you know. This is a person no one likes because he is mean to everyone. There isn’t a nice streak in him, or if there is, he never shows it. He … Continue reading
Hazel’s last entry
Well we’ve done a wedding online for someone in our community. I suppose we could do a funeral. Although this will be a most unusual funeral — a funeral with the deceased present, sitting up, alert, and very much alive. … Continue reading
Iman’s last tweet
There have been a number of inspirational sayings floating around the Internet this week attributed to Iman, the 60-year-old Somali-born supermodel and wife of British rock star David Bowie who succumbed to cancer a month ago, after a year-and-a-half secret … Continue reading
David Bowie, dead at 69
Here am I floating round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do. David Bowie has died, as dramatically as he ever lived, even leaving us with a parting album, released … Continue reading
Time and eternity
Captain Hook, that nefarious helmsman of the Jolly Roger, has but two fears. He fears a crocodile with a clock inside of it, and the boy who cut off and threw his hand to the selfsame crocodile. But why does … Continue reading
God bless all clowns
I will turn their mourning into laughter and their sadness into joy. (Jeremiah 31:13) The death of Robin Williams has us all in this very strange, almost sacrilegious place of laughing amidst grief. Don’t try and fix that, because that’s … Continue reading
The last laugh
Today, the world mourns the death of its funniest man, who, in the end, couldn’t find that last laugh that might have prevented him from taking his own life. He assumed so many personalities except the one he needed the … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 