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TUESDAY 6 December 2011
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Front row seats for eclipse Set your sights on the skies this weekend, as New Zealand is set to have front row seats to a spectacular total lunar eclipse. Although the Earth experiences two lunar eclipses every year, a total lunar eclipse is significantly less common. During a total lunar eclipse the moon passes completely into the Earth’s shadow and, due to the direct sunlight being blocked, the refracted beams make the moon appear red. Only the night side of the planet
will be able to witness this phenomenon, with the moon entering the Earth’s outer shadow at 12.30am NZST on December 11. The most breathtaking views will be between around 3.06am and 3.57am, as it passes through the full shadow, with the moon in the deepest shadow at 3.32am, according to the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand website. The next total lunar eclipse that will be visible in New Zealand will be in 2014.
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Marsden House funeral director Lyndsay Pyers is the only qualified female funeral director in Nelson after gaining her diploma recently. Photo: Andrew Board.
Living her dream funeral job Going to a funeral is not typically a pleasant ex- She says working with families is a privilege and perience; the grief, the pain, the memories. But she works hard to make sure the funeral is what for Nelson woman Lyndsay Pyers, heading off to the family wants. “We have such a range of sera funeral is a dream come true. vices now, from traditional Catholic wakes to a Ever since she can remember Lyndsay has want- real celebration of someone’s life. Funerals aren’t ed to be a funeral director, and after sliding her all about grief anymore, they are also about celfoot in the door via a job as a receptionist, Lynd- ebration.” say is now a fully qualified funerShe says she get plenty of quesal director and the only female in tions at parties when people ask Nelson to be so. her what she does for a job. Lyndsay says she loves her job People always say ‘oh, “People always say ‘oh, don’t and it is better than she even you get freaked out working don’t you get freaked thought it would be. “I just love with dead people?’ But I don’t, it it, I love working with the fami- out working with dead doesn’t faze me, it’s just a part of people?’ lies and being a part of a really my job.” special time in their lives.” Getting the job was a milestone – Lyndsay Pyers. With the diploma of funeral difor Lyndsay but she didn’t go recting under her belt, Lyndsay is now working about in a conventional way. towards her embalming certificate, an aspect It’s not often a candidate on a job interview adof the job she says doesn’t worry her. “We are mits they don’t really want the job they applied able to give families one last moment with their for, but that’s what Lyndsay did. Applying to be loved one by recreating what their loved one a receptionist at Marsden House, she saw it as looked like.” the perfect opportunity to get face-to-face with She says she has never cried at a funeral she was its owner and attempt to persuade him that she directing but came close once. should in fact be employed to be a funeral direc“I was directing a funeral for a woman I knew, tor. we grew up next to each other so that was really The ploy worked and she says she couldn’t be hard, but once it was all over there was just me happier with her job. “I always dreamed of being and a few of the family members and I said ‘ok, a funeral director and I’m really happy I was able can I cry now?’ That was as close as I’ve got.” to do it. It’s definitely my dream job.”
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