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![]() I know several morticians/undertakers. They are funny guys. Confessions of an undertaker. Caleb smiled. He was a tiny bit famous, as it turns out, and not just here in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. He’s been featured on the national news. His blog, Confessions of a Funeral Director, gets 500,000 hits a month. This has partly to do with his irreverent sense of humor — he once tweeted, “I always tie the shoelaces together of the dead. Cause if there is ever a zombie apocalypse, it will be hilarious” — but mostly to do with his eloquent candor. In our culture of face-lifts and fountain-of-youth diets, he seems to have struck a nerve. It’s his self-professed mission to reacquaint us with the fact that we’re going to die, and that it’s most likely not going to be pretty. “The professionalization of death,” as he puts it in his funny and illuminating TED talk, “has left the rest of us death amateurs.” As you can imagine, this doesn’t sit too well with the average mortician, whose livelihood depends on this amateurism. Of course, Caleb is not your average mortician. He reads Kierkegaard and Grace Jantzen, the feminist theologian. There’s a bit of the philosopher-poet about him. He calls death a “sacred space where we can embrace the silence.” Perhaps there’s no greater freedom, he says on his website, than to live life with a healthy relationship to death. Before he buries us, he wants to make us more human.
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Not 1. Not 2. But 6 phones. Can you hear me now? Genius Award Winner. Israeli border police on Wednesday arrested for the second time an Arab who was trying to scale the security fence surrounding Jerusalem, and then, minutes before he was placed behind bars in the Ofer security prison, they discovered and removed six cellphones from his body – before he was able to distribute them to fellow inmates, the Border Police Spokesperson’s office reported. We continually report on the cesspool of higher education. The University of Memphis is Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. In a symbolic way of acknowledging Memorial Day, the University of Memphis announced this week that they would soon be offering free tuition to the children and spouses of fallen service members.
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