1: Arranging and Purchasing a Cremation and Memorials
A typical funeral can cost $6,000 compared to $1200 for a cremation and service. Caskets typically start at about $2,000 for an economy model and quickly rise from there. Be sure and shop around online....

2: Depression Management Advice For Dealing With Sorrow
Some tips to help you or a loved one deal with sorrow....

3: Understanding Wills And Probates
Many believe mistakenly that only affluent individuals should be concerned with leaving wills. If you care for your family and dependents, leaving your will or testament shall ensure that theyll be taken care of even after your death......

4: Why Do We Experience Grief?
Everyone is familiar with feelings of grief. These feelings range from mild, momentary unhappiness to feelings of intense and acute emotional suffering that take a long time to heal. These feelings can be caused by disappointment, discouragement, fustration, trouble, difficulty, a sense of futility, deep regret or some specific loss, disaster, misfortune, accident, or mishap....

5: Knowledge of Gods Love
It is both a wonderful and terrible aspect of God's love that when we lose someone we love, the deep pain we feel can draw us closer to God, the author of life and death. As Christians all our relationships are a triangle, with one another and God at the head. Our deepest selves are connected to one another and to God because it is in Him we live and love and have our true being....

6: Beautiful - A Mourning Glory Devotional
I have always loved this commandment mostly because it assumes we love ourselves. At the very least it seems to give us permission to feel good about ourselves and to treat ourselves well because then that is the standard for the treatment of others. I have rarely seen, in this day and age, the kind of love God would have us have for ourselves....

7: I Have To Prove Everything I Own
This happens when you get a loan, file and insurance claim, go to court for numerous reasons and at retirement or going into a nursing home. This is a way to priove everything; all of your papers are in order, a home inventory, financial papers etc....

8: A Balloonful of Love
My husband's tongue and cheek muscles have also fallen prey to ALS (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis) and he has difficulty enunciating his words clearly. But our desire to live each moment that we are granted has led us to make the decision that "I'm gonna live, live, live until I die"....

9: Today, Millions Turn to the Simplicity and Savings of Cremation
The choice between cremation and burial is a very personal one and some will flat out not desire this alternative....

10: Enduring Love
It is a mystery - how in the midst of my husband's dying I can feel our shared love, our shared lives so poignantly and passionately while simultaneously withdrawing emotional energy from our relationship....

11: Of Death, Dying and the Possibility of a Hereafter
Discussion by a cardiologist of how both he and a dying patient had a spiritual experience which convinced him that death is a transition, not an ending....