The Silk Shroud

Out of Area

Out of Area

When a person thinks of a dying, often it is presumed that the event will happen close to home. Sometimes, it doesn't. Sometimes the place of death and the place where services will happen are separated greatly geographically. When this happens, perhaps family members...

A Bazillion Questions

We will ask you questions and more questions. This will be the case whether you are pre-arranging or whether someone has just died and you are making arrangements for them. There are about a million questions -- or so it seems. We need information for the legal...

Who Controls Your Funeral?

Who Controls Your Funeral?

​If you were to die today, who would control your funeral? ​As simple as the question is, the answer is complicated. Looking at the order of those allowed to control your funeral, New York State lists them like this: 1. A person designated in writing 2. The surviving...

The Silk Shroud

Shroud - a thing that obscures another -- as in a shroud of mist. A shroud is a term associated with death as it is a length of fabric wrapping a body in preparation for burial. It can also be associated with death because for the average person, may aspects of the...