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Jewish Graveside: What to Expect
While many people tend to assume a funeral to be little more than prayers and eulogies, there are often services that can involve more...
Nikolai Finch
Oct 17, 20243 min read


What to Do With Your Dead Body
A question I am often asked at the funeral home at various points between death and final resting place is “What happens to the body...
Nikolai Finch
Nov 3, 20235 min read


Grief: Loud, Soft, Invisible
Content warning: This article discusses various deaths. There are no explicit details, but it does briefly mention death by disease and...
Nikolai Finch
Nov 2, 20234 min read


Seeing Them Off -- An Introduction to Life as a Funeral Assistant
originally published in Cville Weekly the week of February 16, 2022 I see a dead body at least once a week. The decedent in front of me...
Nikolai Finch
Nov 2, 20235 min read
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