{"id":10614,"date":"2011-04-27T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2011-04-25T10:15:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T14:15:03","slug":"interesting-funeral-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10614","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Funeral Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/coffin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DIY Coffin\" title=\"DIY Coffin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a> recently mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/04\/making-the-final-journey-home.html\">this article<\/a> about a man who DIY&#8217;d his father&#8217;s funeral, not only making the casket&#8211;using hardware from his father&#8217;s boyhood farmhouse was a lovely touch&#8211;but actually managing to get a permit to transport the body himself, which is a non-trivial undertaking (so to speak).<\/p>\n<p>That article linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/06\/diy-coffin-making-1.html\">this<\/a> overview of DIY coffin-making (which itself points to additional resources), and someone in the comments linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/thefuneralsite.wordpress.com\/\">this<\/a> cool funeral blog.  It&#8217;s part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefuneralsite.com\/\">The Funeral Site<\/a>, which has all kinds of information and resources, including cremation jewelry, poetry, and discussions of unusual disposal techniques.  I had never heard of &#8220;water cremation&#8221; before, and it sounds like an intriguing option.<\/p>\n<p><em>That<\/em> blog points to a couple of related blogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/grave-matters.blogspot.com\/\">Grave Matters<\/a> (which focuses on environmentally-friendly burials) and <a href=\"http:\/\/finalembrace.com\/blog\/\">Final Embrace<\/a> (which seems more geared toward members of the funeral industry).<\/p>\n<p>:::whew:::<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for a bit of funereal reading material, there&#8217;s some interesting stuff to be found amongst those links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoingBoing recently mentioned this article about a man who DIY&#8217;d his father&#8217;s funeral, not only making the casket&#8211;using hardware from his father&#8217;s boyhood farmhouse was a lovely touch&#8211;but actually managing to get a permit to transport the body himself, which is a non-trivial undertaking (so to speak). That article linked to this overview of DIY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}