August 2017

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HAVE YOU SEEN THESE CHILDREN?
The photographs below have been provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Please help locate these children by posting in your lobby, office, on your bulletin board, etc.
IRENE RODRIGUEZ
Circumstances: Both photos shown are of
Irene. She has a tattoo on her right hand.
Missing Since: 8/6/2016
Missing From:
Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: 7/11/2000
Age Now: 16 Yrs
Sex: Female
Race: Hispanic
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’2”
Weight: 130 lbs
DILLON PAGEL
Circumstances: Frankie was
last seen on January 19, 2016.
He is Biracial. Frankie is His-
panic and White.
Missing Since: 1/19/2016
Missing From:
Springfield, MA
Date of Birth: 7/17/1999
Age Now: 17 Yrs
Sex: Male
Race: Biracial
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 140 lbs
NIKOS INSLEE
Circumstances: Both photos shown are of
Nikos. He was last seen on May 28, 2016.
Missing Since: 5/28/2016
Missing From:
Syosset, New York
Date of Birth: 8/15/2000
Age Now: 16 Yrs
Sex: Male
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 145 lbs
Funeral
Directors:
What Are
ALBUQUERQUE,NM— When the award-
winning book A Good Goodbye: Funeral
Planning for ThoseWho Don’t Plan to Die was
published in 2010, funeral service was quite
different. A lot has changed in seven years,
and author Gail Rubin, Certified Thana-
tologist, wants funeral director input for up-
dates to the second edition.
“When A Good Goodbye first came out, the
national cremation rate was still under 50%,
death discussion movements like the Death
Café and Death Over Dinner had not yet
Your Biggest Changes and Challenges?
started, and the term ‘cel-
ebration of life’ was rarely
used. We’ve seen many fu-
neral business changes over
the past seven years, and the
second edition of the book
will reflect those develop-
ments,” said Rubin.
“Consider the advice
you’d give as a funeral di-
rector if you were chat-
ting with a friend over a
cup of coffee or a glass of
wine,” suggested Rubin.
“What would you want
that person to know?”
Possible topics to weigh in on:
• The impact of technology developments:
mobile phones, online videos, communi-
cations apps, webcasting, crowd sourcing,
website changes, and online collaboration
for distant family members to participate
in funeral planning.
• How you reach out to your community
to encourage preneed funeral planning.
• Your responses to religious and cultural
changes: cremation and religious tradi-
tions, a rise in multicultural populations
and those who identify as “spiritual but
not religious.”
• The growth of pet loss businesses and the
use of therapy dogs in funeral homes.
• Ways your funeral home is addressing the
rising cremation rate.
Those who provide quotes and suggestions
may be featured in the second edition of A
Good Goodbye, slated for release in the fall of
2017. The eBook version will feature links to
contributors’ websites.
A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those
Who Don’t Plan to Die provides the informa-
tion, inspiration and tools to plan and im-
plement creative, meaningful and memo-
rable end-of-life rituals for people and their
pets. The book addresses the baby boomer
generation with gentle humor on the vital
information about funeral
arrangements most people
don’t learn about until faced
with a death in the family.
A Good Goodbye was Best
of Show winner in the 2011
New Mexico Book Awards,
and a finalist in ForeWord
Reviews’ 2010 Book of the
Year Award.
Gail Rubin, CT, is a pio-
neering death educator who
works with companies and
organizations to connect
with baby boomers con-
cerned about end-of-life is-
sues. A featured speaker at TEDxABQ in
2015, she’s the author of three books on end-
of-life issues, including her latest title, KICK-
ING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing
and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die.
She’s a Certified Funeral Celebrant and
writes The Family Plot Blog as well as articles
for funeral trade publications. Gail Rubin
was one of the first people to host a Death
Café in the United States, and she is coor-
dinating the inaugural “Before I Die” Albu-
querque festival October 20-24, 2017.
To provide your thoughts on changes
in funeral service today, contact Gail Ru-
bin by email,
or call 505-265-7215 to arrange an in-
terview. Find more information online at
.