A Tale of Two Funerals The Throw Rug and the Tapestry

Meet the Williams family. Grandma Williams has died, and her children call Night & Day Funeral Home to make arrangements. Courtesy of a Twilight-Zonesque space-time anomaly, the Williams family ends up concurrently planning and holding two funerals for Grandma—one arranged by funeral director Sam Standard and the other by funeral director Garrett Gatekeeper. How will the two funerals turn out? Will the Williams family even be able to tell the difference? Find out in this riveting—and revealing—Tale of Two Funerals...

Dr. Alan Wolfelt is a speaker, grief counselor, and Director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He is the author of Creating Meaningful Funeral Experiences: A Guide for Caregivers, Funeral Home Customer Service A-Z, and Understanding Your Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.