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Photos: Drive-through funeral parlor
It sounds heartless. It looks odd. Cars enter a drive-through, stopping briefly next to the glass wall behind which is an open casket, then drive off. Adams Funeral Home in Los Angeles is the only service in California where you can pay your respect to the deceased on wheels. Disrespectful? (Photos: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
Extremely Bad Advice: Sympathetic Earplugs
Dear Steve, Recently I lost my grandfather and it now seems like everyone in my office wants to talk about either his death, anyone’s death, the dying, or a person they know in a hospital. I know that they are showing me they empathize with me but I just want to talk about anything else, and now I’m beginning to feel like they are using my sorrow as a cathartic tool to help with their problems. How can I get myself out from under death’s conversational shadow and back into the light of office gossip?
STEP ONE Ugh! I hate the “I know how you feel” people! The best way to deal with them is to reverse the situation, quickly. …
The U.S. state of Georgia executed convicted murderer Troy Davis on Wednesday in a case that drew international attention because of claims by his advocates that he may have been innocent. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
Dave Bidini: It’s not always the best game you can name
This summer, two hockey players died: a record body count. People will tell you that these deaths were the result of fighting and concussions, and the damage suffered while playing a savage sport. All of this is true, but both players were also emotionally troubled, suffering bleak endings to a kind of life that many of us hold in wonder. We may view the terrible demise of Derek Boogaard, the New York Rangers enforcer who died in May, and Rick Rypien, the recent Vancouver Canuck and intended Winnipeg Jet who died earlier this week, as fall from graces. But this is to assume that grace exists — or is encouraged to exist — in a culture that is rarely blamed whenever a player slips off the Earth. How many songs, poems, open-line laments, sports-talk post-mortems or morning columns must we voice before we study that culture for what it really is? How many stories about dead hockey players do we have to tell before they stop dying? (Don Healy/Regina Leader-Post)
The science of shovelling snow
Would it kill you to shovel the front walk?” A monster snowstorm raging from New Mexico to Maine raises this question afresh. Typically, it’s posed by a woman standing with hands on hips and assuming a Thurberesque mien as she gazes down on a man exercising his thumb on the remote but otherwise in repose. The correct answer: “It might.” (Illustration by Andrew Barr)
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The Post‘s Richard Johnson looks at what is killing us comparing 2007 and 1967. Here is 1967.
The Post‘s Richard Johnson looks at what is killing us comparing 2007 and 1967. First up: 2007.
