A seamless, faultless funeral
Posted by Sara Elliot In case you missed it earlier in the week (it was hiding as a comment) — ED My mother’s funeral should have been a carbon copy of my father’s. We therefore dispensed with the services of a Funeral Director, having effectively already had the Dress Rehearsal, and knowing exactly what was […]
Chocolate cake — a foretaste of Heaven
n the southern states of the US they like to eat big after a funeral — heart-attack food, mostly. No polite little British ham sandwiches and finger food for Texans. It says a lot about the difference in grieving styles between us and them. Here, a Baptist minister proposes that funeral food should be thought […]
It’s your funeral
Posted by Richard Rawlinson In recent decades the emphasis of funerals has gone from forward-looking to backward-looking. The traditional funeral marked the transition from this life to the future life beyond death. Details of the life of the dead person were less significant than the existence of the immortal soul. This eschatological approach has given way […]
Thought for the day
“Sometimes I think grief is love that has been made homeless.” Source
Go see, go see!!
Event Name: Graveland Exhibition Contact Email: carlaconte@hotmail.com Event Start Date: 29/01/2013 Event End Date: 03/02/2013 Admission Cost: free Event Times: 12-6pm Venue: The Crypt Gallery Venue Address: St. Pancras Church, Euston Road, London, NW12BA Country: England Region: London (Greater) Venue Name: The Crypt Gallery Art Form: Cross Art Form Statement: A playful art & photography exhibition exploring cemeteries […]
Modern life
San Francisco’s prolific garage rockers Thee Oh Sees will follow up last year’s Putrifiers II with Floating Coffin. Due out April 16th via Castle Face Records, the album’s been described as “the next chapter in the story of Thee Oh Sees, the one where they fix their fury against the onrushing night,” according to a […]
The Gravedigger’s Wedding
THE GRAVEDIGGER’S WEDDING by Kevin Paul and Harold Arpthorp (1926) ‘Twas the day of the gravedigger’s wedding, The churchyard was shrouded in gloom, And the lads of the village sat silent, As they played tiddley winks on a tomb. The villagers trooped up the High Street, Trying their best not to grieve, They were losing […]
Wilko Johnson on the fear of death
Former Dr Feelgood guitarist has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given nine months to live. As he embarks on his farewell tour, this is what he says about it: “The things that used to bring me down, or worry me, or annoy me, they don’t matter anymore — and that’s when you sit […]
Spooky spoilsport
As Sean Eddleston lay dying he told his partner, Sharon Grant, that he wanted her never to date anyone else. Since then, his ghost has frightened off every one of her suitors. The Sun newspaper takes up the story: Five years since Sean’s death, Sharon, now 44, claims to have had three relationships dashed by […]
Another no-frills funeral service
There was a big splash in Saturday’s Daily Mail about a budget funeral newcomer to Funeralworld, Cremdirect. Set up in June 2012, Cremdirect has already performed 70 funerals at an all-in fixed price of £1750 and serves Manchester, Buxton and Macclesfield and environs. We called up the founder, Mark Roebuck, and put to him the […]
