Weighing the End of Life
ONE weekend last year, we asked our vet how we would know when it was time to put down Byron, our elderly dog. Byron was 14, half blind, partly deaf, with dementia, arthritis and an enlarged prostate. He often walked into walls, stood staring vacantly with his tail down, and had begun wandering and whining […]
Meet the HOT widows
When Mishael Porembski lost her husband, she found the steady stream of pot lucks and coffee clubs wasn’t easing the grief. So she decided instead to sweat through her grief by training for an Iron Girl triathlon. She felt so much better for doing it that she created HOT Widows and invited other widows to join […]
Trebles all round
From the Evening Standard: Dignity, the funeral care specialist, has again shown there is only one line of work guaranteed to be recession-proof: death. The group increased the number of funerals it performed to 63,200 last year as it benefited from a rise in deaths in Britain to 551,000. This helped buy cialis from mexico […]
Death in the community
From the At Least I Have A Brain blog: Today at Mass we had an elderly Parishioner to bury, who had no mourners. Not one. Empty pews at the front. It was a stark statement that the little man had been married, had no family, his wife had died, and once he went into a […]
Getting off the rock
The indefatigable Tom Walkinshaw, to whose market survey many readers of the blog contributed, is coming closer to realising his dream of launching ashes into space. He has given up the day job in order to make it happen. He already has a prototype of the satellite that would carry the ashes. It is about […]
Dog saves owner from death
A happy dog story for those of you who like happy dog stories. It’s from The Times (£) A German shepherd in the South of France has kept its owner from committing suicide by knocking aside the rifle that she was about to use to shoot herself in the heart. The dog’s owner, 63, had […]
Crowdfunding for funerals?
We don’t do crowdfunding for funerals in this country. It would be a great way of helping people who can’t afford one. In the US there seems to be a much stronger tradition of appealing to the wider community. Hence the website above, GoFundMe. On it is the appeal pictured above by a British couple […]
Gong With The Wind
A Musical Tribute & Dedication for ~ Mrs Emily H Levine~ July 13, 1924 – February 18, 2013 Gong & Original Music “Coming Sun” Performed and Composed by ~ David Leclerc Location ~Myakka River Park~ Sarasota, Florida February 2013 Natural burial grounds: you need one of these.
MAB matters
The good people at the Memorial Awareness Board (MAB) have written to tell us all about their latest, very successful excursion. Here is their account: The Memorial Awareness Board (MAB) campaigns for memorials in stone and is the voice for all UK Memorial Masons. Exhibiting for the first time this year at the Who Do You […]
Basket cases
Here’s an interesting claim from The Co-operative Group: “The Co-operative has a long tradition of leading the way on fair trade and the launch of the first-ever Traidcraft endorsed fairly traded coffin range at our funeral homes is a natural, if unusual, progression.” This first-ever status is endorsed by Traidcraft: Larry Bush, Marketing Director, Traidcraft, […]
