Go see, go see!!
Event Name: Graveland Exhibition Contact Email: carlaconte@hotmail.com Event Start Date: 29/01/2013 Event End Date: 03/02/2013 Admission Cost: free Event Times: 12-6pm Venue: The Crypt Gallery Venue Address: St. Pancras Church, Euston Road, London, NW12BA Country: England Region: London (Greater) Venue Name: The Crypt Gallery Art Form: Cross Art Form Statement: A playful art & photography exhibition exploring cemeteries […]
Modern life
San Francisco’s prolific garage rockers Thee Oh Sees will follow up last year’s Putrifiers II with Floating Coffin. Due out April 16th via Castle Face Records, the album’s been described as “the next chapter in the story of Thee Oh Sees, the one where they fix their fury against the onrushing night,” according to a […]
The Gravedigger’s Wedding
THE GRAVEDIGGER’S WEDDING by Kevin Paul and Harold Arpthorp (1926) ‘Twas the day of the gravedigger’s wedding, The churchyard was shrouded in gloom, And the lads of the village sat silent, As they played tiddley winks on a tomb. The villagers trooped up the High Street, Trying their best not to grieve, They were losing […]
Wilko Johnson on the fear of death
Former Dr Feelgood guitarist has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given nine months to live. As he embarks on his farewell tour, this is what he says about it: “The things that used to bring me down, or worry me, or annoy me, they don’t matter anymore — and that’s when you sit […]
Spooky spoilsport
As Sean Eddleston lay dying he told his partner, Sharon Grant, that he wanted her never to date anyone else. Since then, his ghost has frightened off every one of her suitors. The Sun newspaper takes up the story: Five years since Sean’s death, Sharon, now 44, claims to have had three relationships dashed by […]
Another no-frills funeral service
There was a big splash in Saturday’s Daily Mail about a budget funeral newcomer to Funeralworld, Cremdirect. Set up in June 2012, Cremdirect has already performed 70 funerals at an all-in fixed price of £1750 and serves Manchester, Buxton and Macclesfield and environs. We called up the founder, Mark Roebuck, and put to him the […]
Actuarially, we’re all dying younger — just — perhaps
From The Actuary, 24 January 2013: The total number of deaths in England and Wales in 2012 was 499,000 – 15,000 more than in 2011 and in excess of the total for any of the three previous years. Mortality worsened by 1% over last year for the combined male and female population – after a 3.8% improvement […]
‘I am expecting to kill myself’
Writing in the BBC News Magazine, writer Will Self has news for you. Here are some extracts: This may seem rather shocking to you but I am expecting to kill myself. Really I am, and if you’ll hear me out I hope to at least nudge society in the direction of considering suicide acceptable when – […]
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Euphemism of the week
Euphemisms for ‘died’ abound. That nasty old tell-it-as-it-is d-word — nah, we can’t be doing with it. In a letter to the Oldie, Chris Butler alerts us to a new one: The department of Energy and Climate Change’s recent ‘Impact Assessment of the Introduction of Air Quality Requirements into the Renewable Heat Incentive’ leads off […]
