Why mourn when you can celebrate?
Two Berlin entrepreneurs offer a new way to mark the end of a person s life - online funeral services.
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Photo: Lichthelden Business FotoStudio Kauffmann
Berlin - Fate handed Maria Kauffmann the business idea. In October, two years after her father died of lung cancer, she and business partner Robert Freitag decided to open a funeral home in Pankow.
It s no ordinary funeral home. The name - Ab unter die Erde (Down into the ground) - already says a lot. The two Berliners offer custom funeral services and, now, the city s first online funeral services.
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Earnest Bell refused to attend his September 2015 bench trial on drug charges, opting instead to stay in a holding cell, where he wrapped a shirt around his neck in an apparent suicide attempt.
On Monday, Judge Casey Costigan heard arguments about whether Bell’s former lawyer, Brian McEldowney, provided adequate legal assistance five years ago when he told a judge he believed Bell was fit to stand trial.
Bell is serving a 22-year sentence for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a church, a sentence imposed after Judge Robert Freitag conducted a trial in Bell’s absence.