A party for a parting

Jonathan posted an interesting thought the other day: “if no-one had portrayed the pseudovictoriana we associate with funerals, can you think of anyone who would have invented it for themselves?.” It raises the question: if we were to start again with a clean sheet, how would we do them? It’s a big question. Do funerals […]

The Importance of Being Dead

Sherwin Nuland: The reason there’s interest in people like Aubrey de Grey and the other life extenders has to do with the temper of our age, which I think of as narcissistic… Aubrey de Grey: It’s not a question of living to a thousand or living to two hundred, even – I mean, I don’t […]

The Good Funeral Guide
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