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Todd Van Beck

      
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Questions, questions, questions

This week I received a message from a former student of mine who today is a success in our profession (no thanks to me having been his professor). His message caught my ...

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The veil of history

I knew it uld start happening and last week the reality of my prediction about life started to take shape.  I knew that in time, if I lived long enough, that my friends, my contemporaries ...

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Education for the sake of education

In the last several weeks the subject of mortuary education has again popped up.  One of the professional journals did a survey of the state of the state of mortuary education and the results ...

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My trip to Denver: Seeing history repeat itself

I have been on many interesting and growth filled trips in my long and not totally uneventful career, but this last week end in Denver, Colorado has to be in the top five of these experiences.

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Haiti

Throughout the history of the human experience catastrophes of Biblical proportions have occurred.

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Good intentions aren’t enough when faced with a dead body

The writers of this manual, "Undertaken With Love: A Home Funeral Guide for Congregations and Communities,” have convictions, to be sure; they appear to have all ...

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Christmas in Iowa

The Van Becks have lived in Iowa since arriving from the Netherlands in 1870.  I knew even as a small child that our family had been original pioneers in ...

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Home funerals

The final requiem for the old traditional home funeral appears historically to have come to a temporary conclusion right around the time I started working in funeral service – the ...

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My continuous harangue on the importance of death education

When I was in seminary we were required to do this assignment.  It was simple.  We walked to the Public Gardens in downtown Boston, and were asked by the professor to mark out some ...

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