I know this is not a fun topic to discuss. It does not kick off any party... but we are all going to die. I just have a plan! As I am getting older in life I know that I don't want to cause a lot of stress on my daughter. So this made sense for me.
Joey + Rory singer Joey Feek was laid to rest on Tuesday (March 8) at a private ceremony on the couple's farm in Pottsville, Tenn., and her husband Rory has shared some extraordinary photos from the event at his blog, This Life I Live.
I get that we are a society that is busy. However, are we so busy that we cannot stop to pay our respects to a friend or a loved one that we cannot get out of our car and step into a funeral home? Well a funeral home in Saginaw, Michigan now offers a drive-thru service to view the body of a loved one from the comfort of your car.
Funerals are like those Lifetime movie marathons our women watch -- we hate them so much that a sturdy kick in the balls would be better than sitting through one. Unless of course said funeral is amped up with a couple of funeral strippers, in which case, awesome. Other than that, what else could possibly make such a depressing and sappy crap fest more bearable? How about not actually being dead?
So I've learned some news that many are finding disturbing. Have you ever heard of Westboro Baptist Church? Well, according to their press release, they are about to make a stop in Amarillo. Why? To protest the funeral of Genaro Bedoy, a River Road High graduate that died in active duty while serving in Afghanistan. Are you seeing red? Just wait, it gets worse.
Charlie Daniels may have summed up Earl Scruggs‘ contribution to country music the best. “No one will ever play the banjo like Earl,” the famous fiddle player said on Sunday, as over two thousand fans and contemporaries gathered around him at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.