Read between the lines, what do you see?
From the Taranaki Daily News, New Zealand: Taranaki people say they are keen on “green burials” despite the Awanui Cemetery natural burial site sitting empty eight months after opening. The Taranaki Daily News revealed yesterday that none of the 235 plots at the Awanui Cemetery natural burial site had been sold since it opened for […]
Be a dog funeral celebrant
Dog Funeral Celebrant as well as memorials tend to be fairly typical nowadays, as numerous individuals deal with their own domestic pets because members of the family, as well as because surrogate kids. Dog Funerals could be kept in exactly the same style because human being Funerals, such as the customer’s reminiscences from the dog, photo taking […]
Something for the weekend
We’ve had a request for what follows, and we don’t turn down requests here at the GFG, not on any grounds. If you’ve heard this one before, rejoice for all those who haven’t. An elderly Irishman lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death he suddenly smelled the aroma of […]
Another quote of the day
“They said I couldn’t shoot him til he was inside the house, so I waited til he got in the door and then I shot him.” Sarah McKinley, after killing Justin Martin, a burglar, with the permission of the emergency services. Can’t give you a link to the story because it’s in the Times (paywalled). […]
Quote of the day
The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. Book of Common Prayer (1928)
What do you want?
James Leedam, a good friend of the Good Funeral Guide, is collecting info about what people want at funeral, how they would find out about it, and what influences their choices. As the ceo of Natural Burial Grounds, James is especially keen to find out what influences those who go green when they die. He’d very […]
Immortalising mortality
The Dying Matters Coalition is holding its very own Death Booker (well, something like that). Dying Matters is offering a prize for “new creative writing about dying, death and bereavement. Anyone touched by dying, whether directly or as a relative, friend, colleague or carer, can enter.” The judges will be looking for original writing in […]
Who says?
“The current law exists to protect those who are sick, elderly, depressed, or disabled from feeling obliged to end their lives. It requires every case to be reviewed by the police and the DPP to determine whether a prosecution is appropriate. The present law protects those who have no voice against exploitation and coercion, acts […]
Two weeks ago I told a man that he was dying…
Here’s the beginning of a brilliant post by an American doctor, Jordan Grumet, who blogs over at In My Humble Opinion. Do follow the link at the end and read the rest. Two weeks ago I told a man that he was dying. We sat together in the mid afternoon haze. Puffs of snow meandered […]
Unrecognised rituals
Posted by Gloria Mundi There’s been some very interesting stuff recently about the importance of ritual, and how we need to develop more ritual forms for secular funerals. Vide, for example, The extra-rational power of ritual I find it difficult to draw a line between “ritual” and “ceremony,” and maybe there is no satisfyingly sharp […]
