The GFG Blog
2010Jun
Death Matters
Charles
Jun
11
4 comments
I don’t know if you ever wander over to Death Matters. It’s a descriptive title for a website and blog which is trying to awaken in a death-denying people a full and informative awareness of their mortality – in order that they may live better and remember better. It’s a
Carla: last post
Charles
Jun
10
1 comment
Shown at her memorial service. If you haven’t got to know Carla yet, go to her blog. It is one of the most extraordinary documents you will ever read. The last post has just been published. It is the eulogy Carla’s son Maclen delivered at her memorial. Find it here.
The difference between you and it
Charles
Jun
10
3 comments
I think we’ve all done some good hard thinking, over the last few months, about the value and role of the dead body at a funeral. The discussion of this, and other matters, has elicited some extremely interesting ideas and some statements which, to my eyes, look likely to become
Maggie Brinklow on what makes a good funeral
Charles
Jun
09
5 comments
Everyone agrees that choice in funeral arrangements is a good thing. Even the UK’s most Jurassic undertakers are nodding their heads fervently on this one. They’ve come round at last (sort of). It’s the mantra in Funeralland: Personalisation x 3 (I can’t be bothered to type it). There’s money in
Coherence vs incoherence
Charles
Jun
08
7 comments
More resonances with Rupert Callender’s post in the latest Chester diocesan newsletter. In it, Bishop Peter Forster talks about funerals: I have been thinking recently about funerals – not my own, particularly, although having just obtained my bus pass (and other welcome perks) in idle moments that has crossed my
Formality vs informality
Charles
Jun
08
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Here’s an interesting blog post from a US preacher called Dave. Well, judge for yourself from these extracts. There is much in what he says which resonates with what Rupert Callender wrote yesterday. This past Saturday I had the privilege of conducting a funeral service for a 21-year-old who died the week
Guest post by Rupert Callender, undertaker
Charles
Jun
07
6 comments
Looking after someone who is dying can be a disempowering experience. You can find yourself always being sidelined and denied participation by people who know better. Disconnected. When someone dies, however, you assume complete control. In spite of this, most funerals are conspicuously unjoined-up. Because people outsource the lot –
Country Goth funeral songs
Charles
Jun
07
2 comments
Over at My Last Song Paul Hensby is looking for Goth and Country songs fit for a funeral. I’m in no position to help him out. I like my wireless to utter spoken, not sung, words. I had to confess to Paul that I can’t actually think of a single song
2010May
That’s the spirit!
Charles
May
30
1 comment
Interesting stuff here from the American Museum of Photography: Moses A. Dow (1810-1886) founded Waverley Magazine in Boston in 1850. The magazine catered to amateur authors and reached a circulation of 50,000 copies before the Civil War. It continued to appear until 1908. Dow published the works of schoolgirls and
Who are they, what do they want?
Charles
May
28
2 comments
My website has been, I don’t know, hosted, is it? by WordPress for the last month. Instead of Google Analytics to tell me who comes and what they come for, I now have WordPress stats. In some ways they aren’t so good. I can no longer see where in the
