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A 12-year-old Tennessee girl touched the lives of those she left behind, and many more around the world because of a letter she had written to her future self. Taylor Smith died due to complications of pneumonia in early January, 2014. At her memorial service, her friends shared the ways Taylor had encouraged…

While visiting the grave of a loved one, a woman in Brazil was given the shock of her life. She was laying flowers when a man started digging himself out of a neighboring grave. “The mourner heard some strange moaning and noticed the soil moving around in a neighboring plot.” The woman ran off and called…

Imagine the surprise, actually the terror, when people attending the funeral of Dama Zanthe, a 34-year-old Zimbabwean, were filing by the casket and he began moving. “I feel better now,” said Zanthe. While Zanthe experienced resuscitation, Jesus indeed resurrected from the dead.-- Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

David Kime was a WWII veteran. After his funeral at age 88, his funeral cortege slowly passed through the drive-thru lane at Kime’s favorite Burger King. Each of the 39 mourners had a burger and a 40th burger was placed on Kime’s casket and buried with him. When I reach the final judgment I hope my life…

Fred Guentert has spent the past 25 years building an ornate, Egyptian-style sarcophagus for his final resting place. The Florida man built and decorated the elaborate cedar-wood coffin. He adorned the box with images of Egyptian gods. Guentert has one last wish before they lay him in the box. He wants…

On February 13, 2013, over 4,000 people gathered to mourn a Riverside, California officer killed in a shooting rampage by Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer. Michael Crain, described as a model officer, also had a father's heart, coaching his young son's baseball team and dancing…

At his memorial service, speakers remembered a Philadelphia cabdriver as a man who had a unique ministry to the people of the city. Milton Stackhouse, better known to his friends as “Stack” died of a heart attack at the wheel of his cab on his 64 birthday. Family and friends remembered Stack as a family…

LEGACY How will you be remembered when you are gone? James Henry Smith's friends and family will always remember him as a true Pittsburgh Steelers fan. During his life, Smith spent Fall Sunday in front of the television watching his favorite team. Recently Smith died of cancer, but his passing did not…

Advanced Reservations Required I was shocked by the news that "Flo-Jo," Florence Griffith Joyner died of a heart seizure on September 21, 1998 at the age of 38. Just ten years before, at the 1988 Olympic Games at Seoul, Korea, she won the gold medal in the 100 and 200 meter race and in the 4x100 meter…

How Can I Believe? At my little sister's funeral, people tried to comfort me with statements of faith like, "At least she's not suffering any more," or "She's in a better place." Though these people were right theologically, their words didn't touch my pain. My tears were not because of where she was,…