Funeral director sponsors Olympian
From the Daily Mail: Chris Mears had a five per cent chance. Of living, that is. Nothing to do with diving. A five per cent chance of surviving an emergency operation on a ruptured spleen in a training hospital in Sydney. Impressive then that on Tuesday night, three years on, the 19-year-old was competing in […]
Ain’t Going Yet
Billy Jenkins is a guitarist, composer, bandleader, performer & humanist funeral officiant in London. These are his funeral wishes: Simple cremation for me From Poppy’s. No funeral. No music – for when a musician dies, there is nothing but Silence….. If anyone wishes to: Choose just one of my pieces of music. Play loud. Really listen […]
Don’t bring your work home
Dr Melvin Morse is a leading researcher into the near-death experiences of children. He is the author of Amazing Revelations of What it Feels Like to Die. You can find his website here. Dr Morse has just been arrested for allegedly waterboarding his 11-year-old daughter. According to the Times, “Police did not say if Dr Morse’s punishments […]
Mixed metaphor of the day
When debating the murder of 6 Sikhs in Wisconsin by a white supremacist: Parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal accused Akali Dal of “baking political cake on funeral pyre” of the victims. Source
The seaside memorial bench
Ken West thinks the seaside memorial bench a peculiarly English thing. Is it? The GFG simply doesn’t get out enough to know. Do our continental friends and neighbours commemorate their LOs in this way? Ken also observes that seaside promenades are becoming very popular for the strewing of mortal cremains — often so thickly it […]
We salute you, Susan!
Susan Morris is no stranger to putting herself out for others. She is Trustee, Company Secretary and mainstay of the Natural Death Centre; an award-winning palliative care nurse; and, as you can see, an Olympic Volunteer. As you may imagine, she’s also terrifically nice — and, as her photo attests, she looks great in pink, […]
Is ceremony dying?
Posted by Richard Rawlinson This seems a strange question just after economically-challenged Britain has hosted the Olympics, a no-expenses-spared ceremonial games that unites nations in celebration of sporting prowess. But as the cult of individuality nibbles away at established social conventions, more and more people seem to be caring less for ceremony on a more intimate […]
The great leveller
Lord Peter Ralfe Harrington Evans-Freke, 11th Baron of Carbery, was laid to rest yesterday in the family mausoleum in the chapel of Castlefreke beside his wife, Lady Joyzelle Carbery. There was a full Tridentine sung Latin mass at Rathbarry Church. Monks from Glenstal Abbey and Downside Abbey officiated.
Game over
In our thoughts today, the family and friends of sports fan and chartered accountant Conrad Readman, 49, who booked two weeks off work to watch the Olympics, bought tickets to all manner of events, and died yesterday of a heart attack while watching the bicycling in the velodrome. Full story here and here.
When tickety-boo = tangled web
This blog doesn’t go looking for trouble, but it occasionally splashes into a little local difficulty. Can’t be too careful what you say, that’s the moral. Actually, the only entity that ever threatened to sue us was Promessa. You can’t be too careful of your friends. We got into perhaps our hottest water when surveying […]
