Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.
This website also uses cookies that can’t be disabled through this tab and will need to be disabled manually. The blog itself uses a commenting system by wpDiscuz which uses a cookie to remember some of the information you put in to save you inputting it every time. It also helps prevent comment spam.
The blog may also feature embedded items such as youtube videos which can set cookies to identify your device and approximate location to optimize bandwith and tailor ads as handled by google.
Our Directory also sets some cookies for the Map to function based on your selection and preferences.
Unfortunately the scripts for these features cannot be placed here for you to disallow the cookies manually, therefore the button on this tab will have no affect.
However if you wish to disable these cookie, you will need to disallow them manually in your browser.
For Google Chrome – Please follow this guide and add this website to the cookie block list: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US
If you need any support with this, or use a different browser you can contact us for advice.
If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.
I like it..
Families who supply us with clothes, usually bring shoes.
And always glasses!
It just shows how divorced we are from the practical side of death these days; how little we know. There is great knowlege in the modern world but little wisdom I find.
I lent the GFG to a friend recently – she recoiled and was truly shocked by the laying out and preserving processes described. But it is only forty years or so since people were laying out their dead in their front rooms. TV should be filling these gaps now surely? As our primary medium of information they have a huge privilege and responsibility which they only occasionally pay lip service to.
But please make sure I have some high heels on when I go. It’ll be the first time I’ve been able to wear them!!
Oh, the process of separation!
Any body-carer who had any sort of engagement would have a convo with the specs-bearing bereaved about how to manage them. Take a moment. Think about resourcing the dead. Think about what that means. Think about the meaning and value of grave goods. Review the possibilities: place them in the coffin, place them in the hands, and/or donate them to a charity that recycles specs for the less materially resourced, etc.
Sigh.
Resourcing the dead. I like that. The Chinese do this to the max, of course – and all with paper.
QG, I think you’ll find most of em leave the shoes off. You’ll need to make this very clear.
More seriously, I’ve taken calls from a number of tv production companies this year. Almost all are interested to know what egregious scandals are erupting just now. They go right off the boil when I suggest that, in the absence of any such, they explore and demystify the everyday stuff of death, and inform people about what they’re too afraid to ask. No further interest, m’lud. Their responsibility is to their viewing figures, I guess. The media is being very, very slow to engage with death and deal with it thoughtfully and in proper depth. Such a shame, isn’t it?