Closure
The young wife of a man who has died of cancer goes to see him one last time at the funeral director. She is destroyed by grief and asks her celebrant to go with her for support. She spends quite some time with her husband. As she turns to leave, the celebrant asks her, “Would […]
Promessa UK Team moves in a new direction
Press release issued this morning by Promessa UK and reproduced here word for word. Regrettably Promessa UK has decided for several reasons to sever all ties with Promessa Organic AB (Sweden). Promessa UK is not comfortable with the lack of progress in the development of Promession technology by Promessa Organic AB. In Promessa UK’s […]
Death in Italy
Posted by Richard Rawlinson The Cremation Society of Great Britain this month publishes its international cremation statistics for 2010. See here. The country with the highest percentage of cremations is Japan at 99.9%, and the country with the lowest percentage is Ghana at 3%. But, for me, the most interesting comparison, is between the UK […]
Post mortem correspondence
If the Daily Mail didn’t exist, would the schtoopid things it reports ever happen? Probably not. Here’s what we mean. A Bristol woman opens a letter addressed to her newly dead brother. It is headed claim ended: cl death Your claim for benefit has ended with effect from the above date for the reason shown. If […]
Presswatch
The weekend yielded three newspaper articles about funerals. The Indy’s is a way-to-go survey. It begins by reflecting the current morbid fascination with the demise of enormous people and the consequent indignities of going out big, making play of wardrobe-size coffins and cranes used to lower them. Health is the new morality, of course, so […]
Have your say
Happy Monday, everyone. If you come to this blog wondering what’s kicking off, chances are you’ve got something to say yourself. If so, we’d like you to. The GFG’s a talking shop. We don’t have an editorial line, we don’t have a manifesto. Come one, come all; we’re Funeralworld’s Speakers’ Corner. If you’d like to […]
Quote of the day
Posted by Vale “You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddamn sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddamn phenomenal world. … I used to worry about that. I don’t worry about it very much […]
Chinese woman rises from the dead
There’s one of those curiosity stories in the Daily Mail that may tickle you. Briefly, a 95 year-old Chinese woman died. She was coffined at home and spent the following days being farewelled by her neighbours. Six days later — the day before her funeral — neighbours arrived to find the coffin empty. A search […]
Two to the power of… Funeral Directing
You remember Kathryn’s post here setting out the rules of the Two Things game? Here’s how it goes: For every subject, there are only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of these two things, or just not important. Example: The Two Things about Arranging a Funeral 1. Do what needs […]
Man Desecrates Corpses In Teeth Heist Shock
For readers who find our diet worthy, dull and occasionally pretentious, here’s something to gladden your eye from the New York Daily News: A “creepy” Colorado father accused of pawning gold teeth he took from cremated remains at several funeral homes claims he did it to provide for his eight children, police said. Police […]
