It’s a wrap
The private ambulance is on its way, porters are bringing up the mortuary trolley and the nurses in the ICU are disconnecting tracheostomy tubes, dialysis lines, catheter and ventilator. Soon the Old Year will be flatlining. Farewell 2014 ur a legend RIP. Here in the GFG-Batesville Tower, where our annual Christmas party is presently in full wrecking-ball swing, the entire, […]
We rise again!
Sorry if you missed us. Something to do with hostile action by corporate enemies of the GFG the server. A huge thank you to Ian ‘Harry’ Harris at Carronmedia for his delicate touch with a big spanner and cold chisel. There was an uncomfortable period when we thought there might be no way back.
The PM who was cremated before his funeral
Posted by Richard Rawlinson Neville Chamberlain (above) died from cancer on 9 November 1940, just six months after he resigned as Prime Minister. Winston Churchill, his successor, paid tribute to him on 12 November despite the two men having disagreed over the ‘appeasement’ of Hitler: ‘Whatever else history may or may not say about these terrible, […]
Death Poets Society
Love and Loss: Poetry at funerals and in bereavement Sunday 2nd Nov, 8pm North London Tavern, Kilburn High Road Tickets £8 through kilburnliteraryfestival.co.uk and on the door Bereavement can lead people to seek solace in poetry for the first time, or indeed, to express themselves by writing their own poetry for the first time. Discussing […]
Forget Oxo ad tributes – follow Lynda’s example
Guest post by Wendy Coulton Lynda Bellingham’s refreshing openness and honesty about living and dying with cancer has touched many lives but the enduring legacy will be if people take responsibility for their end of life matters. There have been calls for the Oxo advert to be broadcast this Christmas by way of a tribute to […]
Upcoming events
In a host of different venues in Oxford and Oxfordshire over a span of four weeks we offer you a smorgasbord of original, enjoyable and challenging experiences. Over 40 events and nearly 100 participants http://www.kickingthebucket.co.uk/ http://www.changingchelmsford.org/ http://www.livinganddying.co.uk/
Write a guest blog post and feel the lift
It takes all sorts to make a GFG mailbag — it’s not all lawyer’s letters from the FBCA, you know. Here’s one: Hello Charles and Good Funeral Guide team, I’m an avid reader of The Good Funeral Guide blog and and would be honoured to contribute by submitting an article. I would love to read […]
QSA is hiring
Quaker Social Action is looking for two exceptional people to join our team. Down to Earth development worker Full time, £26,522pa, Bethnal Green, London. Down to Earth is a unique project which works with those on a low income in east London who are face planning and paying for a funeral. We step in […]
The FBCA – an apology
In the light of the Report of the Infant Cremation Commission by Lord Bonomy, 17 June 2014, I invited Ken West, a former manager of Emstrey crematorium, to give his interpretation of the training and practices which had led to the events which the Report investigated. At the same time (28 June 2014) I […]
Gone splashing
The GFG is on holiday. Posts will be intermittent for the next fortnight.
