Todd Van Beck

2017-06-19

You probably think that the “new” low-carbohydrate diet regimes were pioneered by far-seeing and learned medical people like Dr. Atkins.  Well this is...

2017-06-19

THE HISTORY OF GRAVE ROBBING “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake, forbear To dig the dirt enclosed here: Alert he the man that spares these stones And curst...

2017-06-19

Is a concentration on death morbid or healthy? The question should be what do we do with the fact that the death rate is 100%?  If ever we have an opportunity...

2017-06-19

Hardly anyone alive today has ever heard the name John Scott Harrison.  However John Scott Harrison has the distinction of being the only man in American...

2017-06-19

I. INTRODUCTION Most of us in the funeral profession have been there—the headache of funeral flowers. Not to be negative, but I used to get very frustrated...

2017-06-19

I remember when I was in Mortuary College in Boston we took a field trip and visited a vault manufacturing plant in a town a little north of Boston. ...

2017-06-19

Times have changed.  Nothing is the same, absolutely nothing.  There was a time in funeral service when the world was pretty set, pretty solid, and pretty...

2017-06-19

Introduction: One of the most fortunate learning experiences I have had in my entire life was the time I was a student of the Rev. Dr. Edgar N. Jackson...

2017-06-19

Compare today with 1900. In 1900 children were expected not to survive birth, and even the mother’s life was suspect of being destroyed in the process...

2017-06-19

(Presentation for the National Funeral Directors Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, October 27-28, 1998) INTRODUCTION After all the frenzy of the...