Posts By: bfhadmin

I’ve been asked to use Marc’s Musings to talk about cremation… Cremation is the use of high temperature burning and vaporization to reduce a human body to dry bone. With cremation, the chamber that is used to facilitate the cremation (also called a retort) reaches a temperature of between 1100 and 1800 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately… Read more »

When someone dies, much of the concern that we show is directed to that person’s family, and rightly so. But there are significant people in everyone’s life who will also grieve a loss…those people who we call “friends”. Webster’s Dictionary includes the definition of friend to be a favoured companion and in that vein, it… Read more »

This is my youngest grandson Graham. He is in grade one. On his second day of school he stopped to see me before he left. He had his suit on and his Blenheim Community Funeral Home name tag. Like many young boys he has aspirations of becoming a fire fighter or a police officer someday… Read more »

Recently there have been some challenges when I have tried to arrange for interments in some local cemeteries. Let me explain this to you: Lets say my grandfather bought 10 plots in a cemetery and put them in his name…his intention being that two would be for himself and his wife and two for each… Read more »

When you have kids sometimes you judge the seasons by the school year and so when I think that school is starting next week it feels to me that summer is over. Even though there are lots of warm days still ahead of us, somehow we’re thinking that there will be frost and possibly even… Read more »

This is the final week for Breaking Bad News To Children…so far we have covered: Wait Until You Have The Complete Story Faith and Fibs Use Age Appropriate Language Allow Time For Grief Share Bad News Together Choose The Right Moment Leave The Conversation Open The following three are the last of the guidelines that… Read more »

Over the past three weeks I have been talking about Dr. Bill Webster’s information regarding 10 guidelines for telling children bad news. So far I covered: “Wait Until You Have The Complete Story” “Faith and Fibs” “Use Age Appropriate Language”. Following these come: Allow Time For Grief: Despite your readiness to move on, don’t rush… Read more »

In continuing with Dr. Webster’s guidelines about breaking bad news to children, last week I left off in the guideline about using age appropriate language and talked about children up to the age of 5 years old and what they may or may not comprehend. Children from six to nine years old are able to… Read more »

In an article written by Dr Bill Webster, he gives ten guidelines for breaking bad news to children. These guidelines include: Wait until you have the complete story: Sometimes kids have a tendency to fill in the blanks with their imagination that paints a much darker picture than the reality. Giving them the whole story… Read more »

First…we had a very good evening with Jason Mallory of the law firm Kerr, Wood and Mallory who spoke about the current Estate Administration Tax laws. The next seminar will be next Wednesday, July 22nd at 6:30 p.m. We already have over 50 people who were on the wait list for the next seminar and… Read more »