The right job for a good person
Quaker Social Action’s Down to Earth project in the Ease End of London is a practical service helping people living on low incomes to have the funeral they want at a price they can afford. They are brilliant and they have asked us to bring your attention to this vacancy: Development worker — £25,005 – 36 hours, […]
Police arrest dead man at his own funeral
There’s a lovely story in today’s Mail about the funeral of a runaway solicitor, Andrew Paterson, who died from a heart attack on the beach at (nice way to) Goa. Paterson was on the run from the old bill. Had been since 1987 when the long arm almost caught up with him in the matter […]
Santa turns Reaper
The Daily Mail reveals rather unsportingly that East Enders junkies are going to be rewarded this Christmas day with the festive death from maybe cancer, possibly a heart attack, who knows, of the character known as Pat Evans. What is it about the British??
Green Fields of France
Well, how do you do, Private William McBride, Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside? And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun, I’ve been walking all day, and I’m nearly done. And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916, […]
The beauty of the light upon this earth and the sweetness of the leaving
If this makes you think about Six Feet Under it’s because that’s where you heard it. This song presently has us mesmerised and spellbound here at GFG HQ. We play it all day long. Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna, Santa Susannah Santa Cecilia, Santa Copelia, Santa Dominica, Mary Angelica Frater Achad, Frater Pietro, Julianus, […]
Undercutting the undertakers
Business in bargain basement funerals is booming in Germany. Budget undertakers now enjoy 25 per cent of the market, up from 16 per cent two years ago. A typical German funeral is comparable in cost to a British funeral: somewhere between £2,500 and £3,000. But the funeral price comparison website Bestattungen.de will quickly lead you […]
Fiction tempers the funeral facts
By our religious correspondent, Richard Rawlinson TV mini-series The Borgias stars Jeremy Irons as Renaissance Pope Alexander VI, nee Roderigo Borgia. Created by Neil Jordan of The Tudors fame, is a lavish period piece (winning this year’s Emmy for Best Costume) and is packed with racy plotlines involving power struggles, sex, assassinations and sibling rivalries. […]
Quote of the week
“I don’t want a funeral. All I want when I die is a simple tribute concert at Wembley Stadium. And maybe a covers album.” Chris Martin
Pull yourselves together, you wailing wimps!
Guest post by Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) , our Stoic correspondent Is it solace that you look for? Let me give you a scolding instead! You are like a woman in the way you take your son’s death; what would you do if you had lost an intimate friend? A son, a little child […]
Bagga man
Posted by T Roll ok right so who are you realy mr charles cowling you claim to be some witer than wite hollier than thou consumer advocate well weres your conflic of intrest uh ill tell you and all youre readers YOU ARE A SECCRET UNDERTAKER YOU ARE A WITED SEPULHCRE YOU ARE A FRAUD!!!! […]
