Life in the Garden

Matters of Life and Death

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Urn Garden Brush With Greatness

Dear Internets,

I’ve met the most amazing individuals over the past two weeks.

First up:  Cindy, from Arizona, our latest member of the Widow’s Club. Her 51 year-old husband dropped from cardiac arrest. They were newly wed last August and just moved to Arizona. Cindy chose the Going Home urn.

 

Last week, I met the widow of this brilliant mind:

“In my lifetime, it’s hard not to look at the transistor, which was probably the single thing that caused most the technology industry to occur.”

Conrad Jutson, when asked what is the greatest invention that’s occurred in his lifetime, and of humanity.

He was on the design and development team of the best selling GE AM transistor radio, which led down this path:

Continue reading the accomplishments of Conrad Jutson.

And in the end? Salt of the Earth.

 

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Always nice to hear a kind word:

I want to thank you for your GREAT product and your prompt assistance . I will recommend your company to anyone who should need it … NO DOUBT !!! Some sites just responded like two or three weeks ago … HELLO ….

Thank you again ,

Jaime B., AZ
Red Ryder motorcycle tank urn.

And then from Illinois:
Hi, I am so pleased with this transaction. It is so hard to lose a beloved pet, I am grateful for the fast shipping and I love the urn.

God bless you,
Marilyn
Violet Inspiration Pet Urn

Keep those cards and letters coming! 

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Kind Words From Our Clients:

Wholesale customer in Tacoma, WA: I really like your selections and your website is very easy to navigate.  I’m always on the lookout for new products to offer our families.

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And a pet-owner in PA:

Thank you so much for your assistance over the phone regarding my choice for our pet, Cosmo. Our family is deeply saddened by her sudden passing and you made a difficult purchase bearable…we are grateful.

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Baldwin, NY: “Thanks for having such a nice selection (especially the urn I’ve chosen as it was ‘the’ perfect one) and also for being so friendly and warm.”

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Thank you for letting us serve you.

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Social Marketing

JP’s post on the Twitter tool, blew me out of the water and totally validated my thoughts on using the application for my business. Over the past year I’ve watched the My Space come and go, Facebook is hot, and now Twitter. Meanwhile, I’m still clunking away trying to understand the blog concept.

And frankly folks, nobody wants to read about death and dying every word of every post, and Blawg knows, I can’t bear to write about it. Jet Packs’ laid it on the line:

And here’s where marketers fail: They don’t see the revenue stream. And here’s what they don’t want to hear: There is no revenue stream. Corporate blogs failed for the same reason. No one wants to write a company blog (and even fewer want to read it) that amounts to nothing more than spider food, especially when you have the comments feature disabled.

The blog has worked as spider food, and I’ll continue plunking away, trying to blend the life that I currently live: fitness in the morning, funeral in the afternoon.

What Would Allah Do?

Recently the Muslim Council of India sent an important message to the world’s Muslims. It asked one of the country’s largest Muslim graveyards, Marine Lines Bada Qabrastan, where unclaimed bodies are often interred, to deny burial rites to the nine men who died after terrorizing Mumbai. Refusal to bury the terrorists in a Muslim cemetery signifies not just that terrorist attacks are un-Islamic, a contention often heard, but that their perpetrators become, by carrying out these acts, non-Muslim. “They cannot be Muslims or followers of Islam,” declared Muslim Council President Ibrahim Tai, “so they cannot have a final resting place anywhere on sacred Mother India.”

The question then arises, what should India do with the dead bodies?

Cremating the dead and scattering the ashes in international waters, as Israel did after executing Adolf Eichmann in 1962, is the best option. Because Islamic law opposes cremation for Muslims, who believe in the physical resurrection of the body, incineration alone would signify a non-Muslim way of disposing of the dead.

Continue reading Leor Halevi, professor of history, Vanderbilt University: