Tag: Grave

One Foot Over the Grave

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’” — Aldous Huxley There is clarity in death. Through pain and loss, we see the...

How Ancestry.com’s Find A Grave Encourages Bad Actors and Bad Data

Mygrandma died in April of 2004 at the age of 85, and what remains of her today are vestiges of a life lived entirely offline — the typewritten letters she’d mail to me six or seven times a year; the gold wedding ring I wore when I married my husband; the oak grandfather clock that chime...