The GFG Blog
2010May
Death masks 1
Charles
May
05
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Intro outro
Charles
May
05
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I cannot, in all conscience, leave Louise at Sentiment Farewells lying around as a footnote in a yesterday’s blog. The four playlists she has put together, music for the soul, she calls them, constitute a brilliant resource for the bereaved and also for funeral celebrants. Do go over to her
One for the music buffs
Charles
May
04
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This was played at the end of the funeral of Carl ‘Fat Boy’ Williams last Friday. I’ve not heard it used at a funeral before, but isn’t it rather good? Celebrants out there, you might like to add this to the songs you recommend to your clients. Just don’t necessarily
Pocket Cemetery
Charles
May
04
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Heaven in the palm of your hand, says its creator. Serious or spoof? Guess!!
Yes, we can
Charles
May
04
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Hangman’s Cottage in Dorchester. Once a place set apart and viewed with dread, now a decidedly des res A few weeks back I lazily asked whether a private entrepreneur could open a crematorium in this country. I say lazily because I hoped someone would know the answer and spare me
Body shop
Charles
May
02
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2010Apr
Fatboy grim
Charles
Apr
30
3 comments
Another gangster funeral story. Why another? Because gangster funerals are the other side of the coin of state or royal funerals. They offer spectacle. Freshly interred in Australia is Carl ‘Fat Boy’ Williams. The convicted drug smuggler and murderer was just six years into a minimum 35-year sentence when he
Glarin’ or hollerin’?
Charles
Apr
30
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Funeral mutes Since most progressive developments in funerals are reinventions of or reversions to past practice, it’s always a good idea, now and then, to peer into the mists of history and see if there’s anything that can be plucked out, dusted down and dressed up for the 21st century.
