Tom Roten Morning Radio Show with fill-in host, Brian Sexton and guest, Fred Kitchen in the studio during the radio broadcast WVHU AM 800 and AM 1600 Huntington, West virginia on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 the 8:00 A.M-9:00 A.M. show on grief.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Morning Radio Show on Grief With Guest, Fred Kitchen
Tom Roten Morning Radio Show with fill-in host, Brian Sexton and guest, Fred Kitchen in the studio during the radio broadcast WVHU AM 800 and AM 1600 Huntington, West virginia on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 the 8:00 A.M-9:00 A.M. show on grief.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tom Roten Morning Talk Radio Show - Fred Kitchen Interview
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, Fred Kitchen will be a guest on the Tom Roten Morning Radio Show for the 8:00 A.M. - 9:00 AM segemnt. He will be speaking about grief, loss and answering some final planning questions. Be sure to tune in.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Things To Consider - By Fred H. Kitchen
THINGS TO CONSIDER
BEFORE VISITATION AND SERVICES
Inform Family and Friends of Arrangements
Complete “Items Needed” Checklist
Get plenty of rest
Eat Healthy
Be prepared for visitors
Arrange for sitters for young children and pets
Document visitors, receipt of food and flowers at the house.
Consider having someone stay at the house while you are at the visitation and services.
Confirm transportation, arrival times and accommodations for out-of-town family members and guests.
If applicable – start thinking about who you want to serve as pallbearers.
Communicate any special needs or requests to the funeral home directors and staff.
DURING VISITATION AND SERVICES
Wear comfortable clothes and shoes
Greet visitors as they arrive
Introduce yourself
Encourage visitors to sign the Guest Registry and to view and photos, DVDs or other personal mementos displayed.
Know that it’s OK to take a break to get away from crowds – to get off of your feet and to have a snack, soft drink or coffee or water.
Understand that some people will be crying, while others may laugh as they reminisce.
Be in contact with the funeral home staff for any changes or concerns you may have.
BEFORE VISITATION AND SERVICES
Inform Family and Friends of Arrangements
Complete “Items Needed” Checklist
Get plenty of rest
Eat Healthy
Be prepared for visitors
Arrange for sitters for young children and pets
Document visitors, receipt of food and flowers at the house.
Consider having someone stay at the house while you are at the visitation and services.
Confirm transportation, arrival times and accommodations for out-of-town family members and guests.
If applicable – start thinking about who you want to serve as pallbearers.
Communicate any special needs or requests to the funeral home directors and staff.
DURING VISITATION AND SERVICES
Wear comfortable clothes and shoes
Greet visitors as they arrive
Introduce yourself
Encourage visitors to sign the Guest Registry and to view and photos, DVDs or other personal mementos displayed.
Know that it’s OK to take a break to get away from crowds – to get off of your feet and to have a snack, soft drink or coffee or water.
Understand that some people will be crying, while others may laugh as they reminisce.
Be in contact with the funeral home staff for any changes or concerns you may have.
Things To Consider
THINGS TO CONSIDER
BEFORE VISITATION AND SERVICES
Inform Family and Friends of Arrangements
Complete “Items Needed” Checklist
Get plenty of rest
Eat Healthy
Be prepared for visitors
Arrange for sitters for young children and pets
Document visitors, receipt of food and flowers at the house.
Consider having someone stay at the house while you are at the visitation and services.
Confirm transportation, arrival times and accommodations for out-of-town family members and guests.
If applicable – start thinking about who you want to serve as pallbearers.
Communicate any special needs or requests to the funeral home directors and staff.
DURING VISITATION AND SERVICES
Wear comfortable clothes and shoes
Greet visitors as they arrive
Introduce yourself
Encourage visitors to sign the Guest Registry and to view and photos, DVDs or other personal mementos displayed.
Know that it’s OK to take a break to get away from crowds – to get off of your feet and to have a snack, soft drink or coffee or water.
Understand that some people will be crying, while others may laugh as they reminisce.
Be in contact with the funeral home staff for any changes or concerns you may have.
BEFORE VISITATION AND SERVICES
Inform Family and Friends of Arrangements
Complete “Items Needed” Checklist
Get plenty of rest
Eat Healthy
Be prepared for visitors
Arrange for sitters for young children and pets
Document visitors, receipt of food and flowers at the house.
Consider having someone stay at the house while you are at the visitation and services.
Confirm transportation, arrival times and accommodations for out-of-town family members and guests.
If applicable – start thinking about who you want to serve as pallbearers.
Communicate any special needs or requests to the funeral home directors and staff.
DURING VISITATION AND SERVICES
Wear comfortable clothes and shoes
Greet visitors as they arrive
Introduce yourself
Encourage visitors to sign the Guest Registry and to view and photos, DVDs or other personal mementos displayed.
Know that it’s OK to take a break to get away from crowds – to get off of your feet and to have a snack, soft drink or coffee or water.
Understand that some people will be crying, while others may laugh as they reminisce.
Be in contact with the funeral home staff for any changes or concerns you may have.
The Cycle Of Life
From our birth to our death, tradition has always decreed that we as survivors should honor and celebrate the life that once lived. At the birth of a child, we honor the new life by having newborn celebrations. As an infant grows into a young child, a teenager and a young adult we recognize celebrate and honor each birth year of that life consistently. Later in life, we continue to celebrate, recognize and honor birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, and other life accomplishments. Then in our senior years, those who are younger receive the mantel to become caregivers providing respect and high regard for the elderly during their final years of life.
Why would we not honor the life lived after the death and recognize the contributions made during one’s life? We invest much of our time celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, retirements and other life milestones. It just makes sense to plan a final tribute, honor or celebration of the life that once lived. It also serves as an initiation point for the grief process to begin not just for the family survivors but the friends, neighbors, civic and church families. The celebration, final tribute or funeral ceremony serves as a healthy starting point for a healthy grief process.
In a “get-it-over-with” and an “all about me” society, where everything is about us, and everything we do has to feel good, we sometimes have to step back and study the current state of events and simply do the right thing. How does our decisions in death affect future generations and does the possibility exist that failure to offer an outlet for grief to begin may somehow cause those we shared life with to never work through the loss of someone they cared about. We all know that the right thing is not always comfortable or convenient. As personal as death is we still have a social responsibility to not just ourselves but to those who was somehow woven into the fabric and life of the deceased via, school, job, neighbor, religious functions, friend, family, etc. We have a personal and social responsibility to provide a final tribute or celebration for the life that once lived.
Planning an appropriate and personalized celebration or life tribute can be created and accomplished to meet your personal expectations, exactly the way you wants it by contacting your local funeral and cremation service professional.
Why would we not honor the life lived after the death and recognize the contributions made during one’s life? We invest much of our time celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, retirements and other life milestones. It just makes sense to plan a final tribute, honor or celebration of the life that once lived. It also serves as an initiation point for the grief process to begin not just for the family survivors but the friends, neighbors, civic and church families. The celebration, final tribute or funeral ceremony serves as a healthy starting point for a healthy grief process.
In a “get-it-over-with” and an “all about me” society, where everything is about us, and everything we do has to feel good, we sometimes have to step back and study the current state of events and simply do the right thing. How does our decisions in death affect future generations and does the possibility exist that failure to offer an outlet for grief to begin may somehow cause those we shared life with to never work through the loss of someone they cared about. We all know that the right thing is not always comfortable or convenient. As personal as death is we still have a social responsibility to not just ourselves but to those who was somehow woven into the fabric and life of the deceased via, school, job, neighbor, religious functions, friend, family, etc. We have a personal and social responsibility to provide a final tribute or celebration for the life that once lived.
Planning an appropriate and personalized celebration or life tribute can be created and accomplished to meet your personal expectations, exactly the way you wants it by contacting your local funeral and cremation service professional.
Monday, February 1, 2010
What do people expect to do with cremated remains?
What do people
expect to do with cremated remains?
56 percent Buy an urn
39 percent Scatter them
16 percent Bury them in a cemetery
8 percent Put in a niche in a cemetery columbarium
1 percent Put in niche in a church columbarium
10 percent Keep in their home
14 percent Don't know
Source: Wirthlin Report for Cremation Association of North America
expect to do with cremated remains?
56 percent Buy an urn
39 percent Scatter them
16 percent Bury them in a cemetery
8 percent Put in a niche in a cemetery columbarium
1 percent Put in niche in a church columbarium
10 percent Keep in their home
14 percent Don't know
Source: Wirthlin Report for Cremation Association of North America
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