The GFG Blog
2013Mar
Is Dignity overvalued, over-leveraged and operationally insecure?
Charles
Mar
14
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A couple of copies of the Investors Intelligence have come to our attention. In them, financial analyst Aubrey Brocklebank entertains doubts about the viability of Dignity plc. He expresses himself very technically, so some of his argument and most of the graphs go somewhat over the heads of Team GFG.
Is it politic to target terror of death?
Charles
Mar
13
12 comments
According to the BBC, the UK is falling off the pace in the international race to live forever. There may be a measure of national shame here. In a table of 18 countries we stand at #11 behind Greece. Spain is top. Spaniards enjoy an average of 70.9 years of healthy
When Robert was murdered
Charles
Mar
12
10 comments
Posted by Richard Rawlinson There must be something in the air as I’m being uncharacteristically nostalgic about people I’ve known who have died. An early encounter was at prep school, aged 10. My heart sank when my best friend didn’t turn up at the beginning of term, and it wasn’t until
Bournemouth To Host Awards Ceremony For The Funeral Industry
Charles
Mar
11
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Press Release 11 March 2013 Bournemouth To Host Awards Ceremony For The Funeral Industry Nominations have opened for the second Good Funeral Awards, which will be awarded on 7 September at a glittering ceremony in Bournemouth. The awards recognise outstanding service to the bereaved. There are 13 categories including
A glass of Grim Reaper?
Charles
Mar
08
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Posted by Vale The Urban Dictionary (strapline: The Dictionary you wrote) is great place for the gross, the ghastly and the newly minted. It’s for people who speak ‘urban’ and the definitions reflect their preferences and predilections. For example there is no definition of the word morning because: the type
Meet the HOT widows
Charles
Mar
07
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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
Trebles all round
Charles
Mar
07
2 comments
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
Death in the community
Charles
Mar
07
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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
Getting off the rock
Charles
Mar
06
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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
