Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed
Now in the time of dying I don’t want nobody to moan All I want my friends to do Come and fold my dying arms Whoa Whoa well so I can die easy Whoa Whoa well so I can die easy Whoa Whoa well so I can die easy Jesus gonna make up my dying […]
RT @GoodFunerals
Impasse between FD and DWP, so the funeral couldn’t go ahead. Who’s the villain here? http://bit.ly/jnbYCO “When the crem curtains closed, all that remained was a pair of thongs.” – http://bit.ly/iFXvtb “Even departed ones born during Stone Age would surely love this insanely crazy idea” : http://bit.ly/miHmG1 Levertons always have a coffin ready for a royal –http://bit.ly/mBmkei SCI […]
I have seen the future and it doesn’t work
The ability to transmute base metal into gold is a very neat trick. So neat, in fact that, as the record shows, it has never, for all the perspiration of the world’s best brains since the dawn of time, been accomplished. The reverse is very much easier, and this is the specialism of today’s alchemists […]
Jaw war
Dear Supporter The Daily Mail is running a poll for a limited amount of time asking ‘Was the BBC right to screen an assisted suicide?’ If you do not think that the BBC should have screened an assisted suicide, please VOTE ‘NO’ NOW (Scroll down the article, about a quarter of the way down there […]
Who wants to be history?
Thomas Friese, an old friend of this blog who has often made us sit up and think hard about memorialisation (commemoration if your prefer the perfectly good old school word) breezed into my inbox yesterday and again today with some characteristically thought provoking ideas. His ideas derived from a tomb in Mount Olivet, Nashville and […]
“Dying is easy…
…it’s living that scares me to death.” Annie Lennox If your mind is active and you have a minute to do nothing better with, you might like to accept the Gail Rubin challenge, pop over to her blog and supply your on variant on the many “Living is easy…” quotes. If Gail is not on […]
Putting something back
What’s in a coffin? Okay, a dead person. What I meant, as you perfectly well know, is what is important in the eyes of the people who choose them? There’s a huge range, now – it has multiplied over the last ten years – catering for a very wide range of needs and tastes. Does […]
@GoodFunerals
Here’s a roundup of recent tweets. I was dressed down the other day for publishing too many all at once. It’s a good point. In future I shall post fewer oftener. Falling murder rate hits gangsta funeral home – http://bit.ly/izyK2S I see greenfuse have a new website. Something of a standard setter, I’d say – http://bit.ly/kY4HBd Grief […]
Getting it
People look at the funeral industry and conclude that it can’t go on like this. You’ve probably done it. I have. Come on, we’ve left Victorian values behind (even the Tories), we have moved on from Victorian healthcare, no one reads Walter Scott any more, so how come the undertakers got left behind in that […]
No place for sissies
Not many people cite or quote holy texts any more, but a deep human appetite for words of transcendent, mystical wisdom lives on. Twitter is full of people regurgitating inspirational quotes by secular saints (loadsa Gandhi, of course). Once in a while a Facebook friend is afflicted, and of course I block them at once. But […]
