How about a little gallows humor for a Friday morning? I found this story amusing in a ghoulish sort of way:
IT was nearly a year ago that Lauren Clauson’s mother, Rose Karam, moved in with her daughter. Mrs. Karam, a legal secretary who died at 78 after a protracted illness, resides beneath Ms. Clauson’s living room window, in an artist-designed ceramic prayer wheel etched with stenciled leaves. Having her mother’s remains close by — in an urn that celebrates Mrs. Karam’s affinity for autumn in New England, where she grew up — is comforting to Ms. Clauson, a 50-year-old transportation planner. “I’ll walk by and give mom a spin,†she said of the vessel, which is attached to a turntable. “Her presence is here.â€
