Owl you need is love
The natural death movement in the UK of the early 90s was very much a child of its time. Its parents were the natural childbirth movement and the environmental movement. The happy coupling resulted in the birth of twins: the DIY funeral and natural burial. The natural burial movement grew strappingly, but the DIY […]
MuchLoved launches multi-charity fundraising in memory
Example of a MuchLoved online charity giving page We’re always happy to promote the work of top people we really like. One of them is Jonathan Davies and his team at MuchLoved. MuchLoved is the pioneer of online charity fundraising at funerals. Enhancements to the website’s functionality means it’s now possible to fundraise for any number of charities. “This in […]
Why undertakers don’t post their prices
The following is by Charles Manby Smith writing in London Life magazine in 1853. Messrs. Moan and Groan know well enough, that when the heart is burdened with sorrow, considerations of economy are likely to be banished from the mind as out of place, and disrespectful to the memory of the departed; and, therefore, they […]
Less is more
ED’s WARNING: Very long, boring post today. Dig down into the history of any profession and you quickly hit dirt. Medicine, for example. Go back a couple of hundred years and your spade clunks up against a deplorable assortment of scoundrelly self-taught barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives and drug peddlers wreaking all manner of unscientific havoc on their patients. Or take dentists — tooth-drawers. […]
Dignity shares nosedive!
The GFG blogged about Dignity earlier this week — and look what happened to the share price. Source
Tell them where to go
The number of funerals the average person is called upon to arrange in the course of a lifetime is just 2. (Mummy & Daddy) For some, though, Reaper G’s scythe lays waste to vast swathes of their nearest and dearest. For these unlucky souls, arranging and attending funerals can be pretty much a full time job. The writer of the […]
Dignity makes a difference
Capital expenditure at foot of page And today’s difference is that between Dignity plc’s capital expenditure in the 52 week period ending 27 Dec 2013 — £12.4 million… and capital expenditure in the 52 week period ending 27 Dec 2013 — £1.4 million This saving of £11 million is huge in the context of declared quarterly profits of […]
Sagewatch
Dedicated followers of Richard Sage will know that he is operating out of the Mayer Funeral Home. Invoices issued by the Mayer Funeral Home show that it is owned by Medi Call Southern Ltd, incorporated by Companies House on 07-11-2012. M-Call is – no surprises – an air ambulance business. Its SIC is given […]
New charity to help pay for funerals of babies and children
A new charity which will help bereaved parents with the cost of a baby or child’s funeral is being officially launched on Wednesday, July 23, with a special one-day seminar and exhibition at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. Child Funeral Charity (CFC), whose patron is well-known author and national newspaper advice columnist Bel […]
Why are men killing themselves?
In an article in a recent Spectator magazine, Elizabeth Hardman reflects on the problems that beset males today: The idea of women having a rotten deal has become so firmly entrenched in British public life that we have become blind to the problem emerging for the boys. Hardman gives evidence, including the suicide rate: This year […]
