Absence makes the art grow fonder
Are you a graveyard rabbit? Are you a photographer? If your answer to both of the above is yes, you can enrich yourself to the tune of £1,000 by indulging your two favourite fads and entering MAB’s Dead Art? Then and Now competition, details of which follow: Last year was the second success of the Memorial […]
Modern grief 1 — Why teddy bears?
Posted by Charles In a decorous piece of invective in last Friday’s Daily Telegraph, Damian Thompson analyses the way people express grief today, and why: A few weeks after the murders of the schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, I stood in Soham parish church with the vicar, the Rev Tim Alban Jones. […]
Thought for the day
In parts of Africa it is said that people experience two deaths: one when their body dies, and the other when the last person who knew them dies. Cemeteries are living testimony to that. Source — a nice piece about cemeteries
Ashroom
A fancy gaff? No, a tomb. The tomb of Maharajah Ranjit Singh, aka The Lion of the Punjab. His ashes repose in the middle, on the spot where he was cremated, in a marble urn shaped like a lotus. There are eleven other urns, those of his four wives and seven other women who threw themselves […]
Modern life
hi could anyone help me I have made my second memorial and all the themes are gone there is only 3 with butterflies when I made my sisters there was loads to choose from help please Xx Appeal on a chat forum at online memorial site GoneTooSoon.
Publishing event of the year!
The Natural Death Handbook, Fifth Edition A thoroughly updated and revised edition of the Natural Death Centre‘s celebrated handbook. Now presented alongside a new collection of essays on death, dying and funeral practices by doctors, historians, authors, poets, theologians and artists including Richard Barnett, David Jay Brown, Dr Sheila Cassidy, Charles Cowling, Bill Drummond, Stephen Grasso, […]
Irish Traveller’s grave
Enjoy the whole photo essay here.
Jesa
We’ve talked quite a lot recently about remembrancing and ways we can do that, either through restoration of lost customs, plagiarising others’ customs, or innovation. As we discussed ways of commemorating our antecedents, Jonathan urged us to mind, also, our descendants. Today we reproduce in their entirety, because they’re so interesting, the reflections of a […]
Memory tables
We’ve talked recently here about shrines and memorials and remembrancing. Here’s a very nice idea from Shirley, over at the Modern Mourner, in a blog post titled Why can’t memorials be more like weddings? It’s a memory table. You put choice things, invested with meaning, on it — arranged beautifully, of course. What would you […]
Humanising the ancestors
We get quite a few emails here at the GFG from makers of ashes urns. Most of these urns are ghastly and get no more than a thanks but no thanks. We are unfailingly courteous. This morning was an exception. We received some stunning images from a Plymouth-based ceramist, Alan Braidford — in answer, it […]
