Dig it shallow. They don’t.
Filming the Good Funeral Awards with Sharp Jack Media, the production company making the documentary for Sky, entailed going all over the country to shoot people in action and get their backstories. It was fun. Perhaps the most fun was watching the crew on ‘just another job’ become emotionally enmeshed by the loveliness of the […]
Keep calm and do the science
Well-meaning ignorance fuels lots of heated debate in Funeralworld. Broadsides of stats are exchanged, but how many of them are verifiable? In one thing we can trust: probably no one’s yet done the science. Take the following press release from the respected news agency Reuters: Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 million metric tonnes of carbon […]
Faithful unto…
Here’s one of those faithful dog stories you all love so much. This one’s in Argentina. The dog is Capitan. Read all about him in the Mail here.
Quote of the day
“If, as we get on each day living in the present, we spend some time seriously thinking about [death]; if we talk about it now and then – here, perhaps, and with friends and relatives; if we seek out and read what others have written about it; if we ponder it quietly from […]
ITV’s upcoming undercover investigation into the funeral industry
It’s billed as ‘an investigation into the unregulated world of the funeral industry, with some shocking undercover footage.’ From what we understand, it’s going to be that and more. The ITV exposé of deplorable behind-the-scenes practices is set to send buy cialis australia online shockwaves through the industry, once again exposing the impotence of industry […]
Soundtrack to your funeral, anyone?
A charming email arrives from Phil Smith. Phil is the founder of Soundtracktoyour.com. “Soundtracktoyour-dot-com??” we hollered at the hunched and desperate-eyed GFG galley-slaves. Answer came there none. Never heard of it. Phil says: We at Soundtracktoyour.com are pleased to be announce that in October this month our site moves to Open Beta! The reason I […]
Fiery funeral
The story: Scores of Viking warriors descended on the shores of Lough Neagh last weekend, where they engaged in battle and bade farewell to one of their own on a blazing funeral pyre, watched by hundreds of people, young and old. The full story: It was a re-enactment. Good fun, though — great spectacle.
Lay ministers for Catholic funerals
Posted by Richard Rawlinson Due to a shortage of priestly vocations in the Archdiocese of Liverpool, Archbishop Patrick Kelly has come up with a solution that’s likely to get a mixed response: lay people presiding over Catholic funerals when priests are not available. He’s commissioned 22 lay ministers to celebrate funeral ceremonies, starting this autumn, in […]
David Twiston Davies, formerly chief obituary writer at the Daily Telegraph, gave a brilliant talk about his onetime trade at the Joy of Death Festival 2012. Here’s a snippet Whatever the truth, everybody wants to know why somebody has died. Unfortunately the reasons given immediately after a death are often proved to be wrong. Max […]
The gift of life is a sentence of death
From the Indian Express Contrary to the usual norm of life, one gypsy tribe from Rajasthan actually rejoice and revel in deaths in their family counting them as one of the happiest events in their lives while treating births as occasions of great grief … what distinguishes the Satiyaa community from the other tribes is after […]
