Posted by Charles Cowling
What is the well dressed corpse wearing? Clothes which co-decompose: http://bit.ly/jOJlxm
Aussie undertakers strategise for the future. Better experience, better service. Full marks. http://bit.ly/m8t88b
Music therapy for the dying. Touching. http://nyti.ms/mzIjDW
Queenslanders urged to employ industry regulator to weed out “rouge [sic] or ‘cowboy’ operators.” http://bit.ly/leMNWF
From the US: “for-profit health chains are cynically exploiting this model to fill their own pockets.” Beware, UK! http://nyti.ms/lr4CW3
Check out Dignity’s projected price increase for funerals in the UK. Complete cobblers? http://tgr.ph/mJOZeo
Exploding funeral pyre injures 20 – http://bit.ly/jcDxnx
MakingAnExit Sarah Murray RT by GoodFunerals
When I’m dead and “green” – a look at the options for a more environmentally friendly exit: bit.ly/qnDsR1
Spend some time in the mind of an old-school undertaker. It may creep you out – http://tinyurl.com/6khd6ns
‘Abuse of a corpse.’ There’s such a ring to that. Could you be done for this in the UK? http://bit.ly/rgZ1dK
Germans are being cremated in Holland – cheaper + more respectful. Great piece here: http://bit.ly/pomDrH
Deer wake up and smell the roses at Salisbury crem –http://bit.ly/nTh0Tj
Graphic pics of drug wars on the Mexico-US border –http://bit.ly/p3GKO9
‘The scraped were condemned to topical infirmary with non-life threatening injuries’ – http://bit.ly/oc2YiS
What use funerals when people say things like “The loss is incalculable. It will not kick in until after the funeral”?http://bit.ly/pCKHR9
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Corpse makeup the next big thing, say fashionistas. http://bit.ly/nKg1FL
C of E dead set on raising minister fee to £150. Great news for secular celebrants – http://reut.rs/n1ziPK
The priciest funeral homes in Vermont are owned by… SCI, surprise surprise. These corps are so crap – http://bit.ly/puahxc
Natural burial ground ran out of money, dammit! http://bit.ly/q1c9MbWill sustainability issues soon haunt others?
Spice up your sex life: do it in a funeral home – http://bit.ly/nOygTU
Celebration of life planned for dead elm – http://bit.ly/qdyYN1
Bristol council publishes zombie attack contingency plan –http://bit.ly/iw3EAL
You’ve got to feel sorry for these people. 1st the vile Co-op buys their crem, now it wants to close down their post office http://bit.ly/rdk48J
More on bespoke deathwear which co-decomposes –http://ind.pn/od4Bzc
Boomers, a stuffed bear and the hyper-personalised funeral –http://bit.ly/nann4A
Oh dear, the C of E has thrown out the proposed fee increase for funerals – http://tgr.ph/rlxsLB
Taiwan funeral strippers, lower gods and the heat and noise factor –http://on.io9.com/qNyC5l
More on Illamasqua here http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG8630248/Illamasqua-offer-make-up-for-the-afterlife.html It seems to be capturing imaginations…