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2013Jan
Thank You For Being My Dad
Charles
Jan
09
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Surprisingly, perhaps, this is not more popular at funerals. Simple and catchy. A son rarely tells his Father How he really feels, A handshake or a pat on the back
is all that he reveals, I’d like to right that wrong, Here in this little song. Thank you for shaping
A Giving Tribute For Lasting Memories
Charles
Jan
09
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ED’S NOTE – Right back when A Giving Tribute was nobbut a concept, we loved the idea. Since those early days its creator, Liz Mowatt, has developed, trimmed and simplified her offer. She has persevered with the sort of grit and tenacity you’ve got to take your hat off to.
Thiel embalming, anyone?
Charles
Jan
09
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Professor Walther Thiel, an Austrian, developed an embalming process for medical cadavers. His process requires much less formaldehyde than conventional embalming fluids and, also, produces a much more ‘lifelike’ body with none of the hardness and stiffness associated with conventional embalming. Medical people are very keen on it — those
Dead bowler takes three for 47
Charles
Jan
08
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From a report by Andy Bull in The Spin: Congratulations to Rangana Herath, the roly-poly Sri Lankan spinner whose 12 wickets at 33 each against Australia have bumped him up to fourth in the ICC’s Test bowling rankings. Herath took three for 47 in the fourth innings last Sunday, an
If music be the food of love, play on
Charles
Jan
08
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Posted by Richard Rawlinson We sometimes differentiate between religious and secular music at funerals, hymns such as Abide with Me or popular hits such as Candle in the Wind. It was ever thus with music’s capacity to move, ranging, even in the Middle Ages, from sacred Gregorian Chant to itinerant troubadours
You say coffin, I say casket
Charles
Jan
07
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By Guy Keleny in the Independent here. “…this column does not wish to sound like a choleric pedant holding forth in about the year 1950, so we do not go on about ‘Americanisms’. “The simple truth is that there is more commerce of words eastward across the Atlantic than westward because American
Adventures in Funeralworld
Charles
Jan
07
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1. The late night shopping experience Posted by Andy Clarke ED’S NOTE — We have featured Andy’s adventures with his innovative Curve coffin from the very beginning. Here, he describes the experience of exhibiting at a Christmas shopping event organised by his local Chamber of Commerce in Tenterden, Kent. And
Bad death, bad memory
Charles
Jan
04
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Pain that is not relieved in a person’s life continues after they are gone, held as a sordid memory by loved ones. Just as we retain treasured thoughts of joy, wisdom and warmth, we preserve images of pain. Unrequited suffering contaminates memory, preventing healing, healthy grieving and closure. This pain
