Joshua Slocum Home Quotations

Most people choose a funeral home for all the wrong reasons: It's close to their house, or it has served their family in the past. The range of prices offered by various funeral homes for comparable services is incredibly wide.

Some funeral homes try to guilt families into buying more expensive urns by stamping 'temporary container' on the outside of the cardboard or plastic box that the remains are returned in.

The first name on the Spray's visitors' book in the home port was written by the one who always said, 'The Spray will come back.'