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FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS
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Southern Granite Company, Inc.
1-800-628-6648
southerngranite2@bellsouth.net
Family owned and operated since 1946
By Kristan Dean
In 2000 Kristan Dean began working with her family to bring
Merry Christmas From Heaven
®
to all who need the gifts’ mes-
sage of Comfort, Love, and Faith. Today she is the Vice President
of Marketing and one of the primary members of her family’s
Bereavement Ministry.
Thanks, in great part, to the thousands of funeral directors and
retailers nationwide who make Merry Christmas From Heaven
®
a
part of their communities, countless numbers of families reach out
to their family every year. Their bereavement ministry helps families
realize that those in Heaven live forever in our hearts. Their love is
with us always.
Prior to Mooney TunCo, Inc. Kristan worked with companies nation-
wide helping them build revenues by creating greater sales opportuni-
ties through the use of sales intelligence and marketing alignment.
up my homeopathic efforts and decide to give rest more of a
chance to come to my rescue. No work for me today. I need to
see what my kitchen can do to help me heal.
My first Google search brings me to Dr. Michael Gregor
M.D., speaker at the Conference on World Affairs, the Na-
tional Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Sum-
mit; Contributor on The Dr. Oz Show and the US Humane
Society’s Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture’s
talk about a Japanese study that proves less than one teaspoon
of raw kale can quadruple our white blood cells’ ability to cre-
ate antibodies and cooked kale increases antibody production
even more.
A few more searches and I created the yummiest kale, spin-
ach, broccoli, black bean, onion, garlic, ginger, and turmeric
spiced miso soup. I juiced two liters of parsley, carrots, cilan-
tro, apples, cucumber, and sweet potato, and make a tea tonic
of ginger, lemon, grapefruit and Braggs apple cider vinegar to
drink alone and add to hot teas. I am good to go and the home
remedies and Mucinex seem to do their thing.
No miracle cure, but I have till Monday to get well. Unfortu-
natelyMonday brings me to the doctor’s office with scary look-
ing throat and lungs that are puffier than Friday. Not one to
prescribe antibiotics until tests prove you need themmy doctor
runs some tests then sends me home to wait and see if I need
antibiotics or to let the virus run what he says will be an 18 day
course.
Who has 18 days? I need to find a way to get healthy fast-
er than that. Time to create a natural broad-spectrum antibi-
otic, antimicrobial, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory cocktail
of raw organic pressed garlic, ginger, turmeric root, and honey.
This is not my yummy soup, juice, teas or tonic. This tastes
yucky and yet I’m taking a teaspoon every hour because the ex-
perts say it works in less than 48 hours.
One day in, my cough is subsiding, my sinuses are less puffy
and I have a dim hope that my throat will catch up if it gets
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more help. Time to ramp up the gargling, add my go-to
Thai spicy vegetable soup, and Dr. Oz’s Microbial Silver
spray, goldenseal root, and Echinacea tea to my throat’s
scary party.
Four hours into my first homeopathic free for all and I
can say I see why people choose this route. Giving my body
things that add to health vs. trying to kill everything or giv-
ing everyone aroundme the opportunity to feel miserable is
making my recovery far easier to swallow even when what I
am swallowing tastes really yucky.
I can’t wait to hear about your remedies, especially if they
taste good! Please give me a ring at 781-331-5308, email
me at kristan@mooneytunco.com, or join the conversation
on the Lets Chat Blog
When you get sick do you fight it no matter what or do
you realign your approach to health? After spending seven
days with a virus taking my nose, throat and then my lungs
I am learning that it may be easier to get well and a lot less
frustrating to be sick if I stop fighting and start realigning.
When the first tickle hits my throat and the pressure enters
my head I take out the Mucinex, neti pot, and fluids and
head to work. Three days in, I realize fighting isn’t working.
I am getting worse and concentrating on how yucky I feel is
preventing me from getting the benefits rest can give.
I switch gears and think about how my throat feeling as if
it is full of shattered glass gives me the most infinitesimal-
ly small understanding of what my Dad’s throat is going
through. I instantly become beyond grateful for the pain in
my throat and realize the more grateful I become the less it
hurts. Gratitude takes my pain from an 8 of swallowing bro-
ken glass to a 3 that says if this is worse in themorning it’s off
to the doctor.
The next morning I think hmm maybe gratitude and
medicine are all I need. I go to work sure that my body will
heal. Friday hits and a cough settles into my lungs. I ramp
McLaughlin Funeral
Home takes delivery of
new Statesman Coach
ST. LOUIS,MO—
(Left to Right)
Kathryn Cooper
,
John
Cooper
and
Lisa Cooper
, take delivery of their Superior
Cadillac Statesman Coach from
Joe Molina
(Right) of
Royal Coachworks, Inc.,
St. Louis, MO. They are the
second and third generation of the Cooper Family that
have owned
McLaughlin Funeral Home
since 1915.
Gary Cooper
, owner, was not present. McLaughlin Fu-
neral Home is located in the elegant area of South St.
Louis known as Lafayette Square. They serve South St.
Louis, South St. Louis County and the adjoining south-
ern counties. The fourth generation of Coopers are now
part of this family owned and operated funeral home.
Everything You Need to Know About Recycling Your
Post-Cremation Metals (But Were Afraid to Ask)
By Sheldon Goldner
If you’re running a crematory, by now you’re well aware
of the growing number of businesses offering to recycle the
metal you recover from your cremations. The post-crema-
tion metals recycling industry is growing quickly and for
good reason. The first reason is that much of the post- cre-
mation metals from dental work and bone implants are
valuable and these companies know it. The second rea-
son is that the Federal law requires “heavy metals” such as
gold, silver, platinum, palladium and iridium to be prop-
erly disposed of or recycled, not just buried.
The fact is, not all recycling companies care about environ-
mental compliance or your liability in the matter, but you
should. According to Federal code, the ultimate environmen-
tal liability for non-compliance lies with you. So now, given
all the recycling companies ready to take your metal and re-
turn the proceeds back to you (at varying amounts depending
on who you choose), the question you should have is how do
you select the right company that will pay you a fair return
but will also keep you in environmental compliance.
Recycling companies serving cremationists come in two
flavors. A direct refiner (the one who actually owns the
refinery) is always the best choice. Just as all that glitters
isn’t gold, not everyone offering to buy your post-crema-
tion metal is a direct refiner. Most recyclers, scrap deal-
ers and waste haulers are essentially middle-men who don’t
have the equipment or expertise to properly recover and re-
fine precious metals themselves. They have to hire a refiner,
which adds costs that eat into the money they can return to
you. Some will tell you they are a “refiner” when in truth
they are not. What is a crematory to do?
When you do business with a direct refiner, you not only
avoid the middle-man and have more of the proceeds returned
to you, but it also puts you in the very best position should the
EPA come a-knocking to see how you’ve recycled the metals.
Seven Questions You Should Ask
When choosing a recycler, you should consider asking these
seven important questions. Don’t be timid about asking since
a reputable refiner will be all to