Double entendre of the day
WHITNEY HOUSTON Funeral Home Denies Leaking Casket Photo Headline in numerous newspapers following the publication by the National Enquirer of an unauthorised photo of Whitney Houston in her casket.
Modern life
yesterday was my mum’s heavenly birthday i light candles every day for my friends angels and wish them heavenly birthdays and put a pic in there garden yes she had a couple of verses put on but not one heavenly birthday wish or pic i know people dont have to do this but […]
Thoughts for Lent
Posted by Richard Rawlinson “I’ve been to funerals where I was pretty sure the majority were atheists and they listened to the vicar say the deceased had gone to a better place and everyone’s toes curled. We can’t prove it’s not so but the chances that it is, are rather meagre. If […]
R.E.M. – Find the River
Hey now, little speedyhead, The read on the speedometer says You have to go to task in the city Where people drown and people serve Don’t be shy. Your just dessert Is only just light years to go Me, my thoughts are flower strewn Ocean storm, bayberry moon I have got to leave to […]
Quote of the day
“I chose the start of the overture from The Mikado as the music for my Dad’s funeral…..it was that, or his other favourite, Doris Day, but my Mum pointed out that everyone would think we were outing him, so G&S it was…” Source
Modern times
Rum goings-on emerge from the online memorial website GoneTooSoon here (which we’ve never had a lot of time for at the GFG), where a variation of trolling seems to be going on. In an online discussion titled Victim of FAKE memorials 🙁 Vicki writes: I’m sorry, but recently, I have been the victim of several […]
Death and Life
Transitus member Zambodhi Schlossmacher has written to tell us of this book, just out. Here’s the blurb: Bruno Bitterli-Furst was amazed when Elisabeth Kubler-Ross first contacted him from the spiritual world. Initially, he disbelieved her authenticity. However, over the course of communicating with her, it became unequivocally clear that this being from the spiritual […]
All lit up in love
From a story in the Times of India: BHOPAL: Marriages are said to be arranged in heaven. But this one was solemnized inside a crematorium amid beating of drums, music and dance. Vinod tied the nuptial knot with Vinita, daughter of Amar Rai, on Saturday here at the Anand Nagar crematorium on Raisen Road. […]
By what magic can a personal experience be communicated to another?
”The priest presents for consideration a compound of inherited forms with the expectation (or, at times, even requirement) that one should interpret and experience them in a certain authorized way, whereas the artist first has an experience of his own, which he then seeks to interpret and communicate through effective forms. Not the forms […]
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Have you recently lost a loved one? How was the funeral? Did it go well as could be expected or were there problems you felt you shouldn’t have had to deal with? I’m a journalist working for a small independent television production company. We are currently looking into funerals and we want to hear about […]
