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This is the time of year when the Reaper takes a break and catches some rays, giving undertakers a chance to do housekeeping chores, and celebrants a chance to starve. There’s not a lot going on out there. I can’t begin to tell you what a quiet week it’s been. These are the best I could […]
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Posted by Charles Cowling What is the well dressed corpse wearing? Clothes which co-decompose: http://bit.ly/jOJlxm Aussie undertakers strategise for the future. Better experience, better service. Full marks. http://bit.ly/m8t88b Music therapy for the dying. Touching. http://nyti.ms/mzIjDW Queenslanders urged to employ industry regulator to weed out “rouge [sic] or ‘cowboy’ operators.” http://bit.ly/leMNWF From the US: “for-profit health chains are cynically […]
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Gladd bag suicide kit By Charles Cowling They done her in. So claims the director of the new Diana movie – http://ind.pn/ifoEFe All the Goth death stuff you could probably ever want – http://bit.ly/9Xp6YI Will the Tories flunk doing the right thing to fix the growing old age care crisis? It […]
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Latest in crematorium design, one in the shape of a foetus –http://bit.ly/jZNxyQ MakingAnExit Sarah Murray RT by GoodFunerals Remarkable pictures of a Tibetan sky burial: bit.ly/lll4hP “The funeral industry itself is heading for a crisis of relevance” Read and digest the wise, enlightened Pat McNally – http://bit.ly/lhS8yF Like me! Follow me! Are […]
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Impasse between FD and DWP, so the funeral couldn’t go ahead. Who’s the villain here? http://bit.ly/jnbYCO “When the crem curtains closed, all that remained was a pair of thongs.” – http://bit.ly/iFXvtb “Even departed ones born during Stone Age would surely love this insanely crazy idea” : http://bit.ly/miHmG1 Levertons always have a coffin ready for a royal –http://bit.ly/mBmkei SCI […]
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Here’s a roundup of recent tweets. I was dressed down the other day for publishing too many all at once. It’s a good point. In future I shall post fewer oftener. Falling murder rate hits gangsta funeral home – http://bit.ly/izyK2S I see greenfuse have a new website. Something of a standard setter, I’d say – http://bit.ly/kY4HBd Grief […]
Tweetfest
It’s been a while since I posted a roundup of news stories. Here’s a bunch. I can’t claim to have got them all; it’s a laborious business collecting them. They were all first posted on Twitter. I feel guilty about that. Twitter is a social networking site and I just use it as a filing […]
Some of last week’s stories
“Do you swear on a stack of bibles that this dongle will definitely receive a strong, clear, unwavering signal on the Isle of Portland?” You wait for that look that young persons give us folk of uncertain age and temper, a blend of impatience, indulgence and pity. Then he says “Yes, oh yes, definitely” and nods very […]
The week in shorts
Royal wedding route will be the same as that to be taken by Queen’s cortege – http://bit.ly/ie1Xtf Interesting that political campaigning should be reckoned disrespectful of a dead politico – http://bbc.in/gp8KCX Man dies at best friend’s funeral – http://bit.ly/fKDMxb RT @beachwordsmith: Sia Furler and Six Feet Underhttp://bit.ly/eZcaLs Such a great song! Judicious juxtaposition. Hat […]
The week in tweets
MuchLovedUK MuchLoved RT by GoodFunerals Download @MuchLoved‘s facebook app and add your tribute. Every time someone comments/contributes or makes a…http://fb.me/DyrepjgV DeathRef Death Reference Desk RT by GoodFunerals Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die. “You want to talk about where…http://fb.me/V1mQWbPO GoodFunerals Charles Cowling Go on, Like Mortlake crematorium on […]
