The GFG Blog
2010Feb
Letting go
Charles
Feb
02
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Obachan Funeral 2008 from Steven S Friedman on Vimeo. There’s a thought provoking post over at Mindfulness and Mortality about the role of the body at a funeral. Among many other interesting ideas, blogger Gloriamundi articulates this: Somehow, people have to let a body go. It’s very difficult to do,
On whose authority?
Charles
Feb
01
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It’s an interesting fact that a funeral director can go to a hospital mortuary and collect a dead person to bring back to their funeral home on the verbal instruction of that dead person’s executor. That’ll be good enough for the mortuary. If a funeral director whom they’ve never seen
Funeralcare screwupdate
Charles
Feb
01
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Naughty scenes, it seems, recently shattered the reverent if gloomy atmosphere of George Pettit and Son, undertakers to the good people of Chester. At the staff Christmas party all manner of impropriety seems to have been committed. In an admirably tight-lipped and understated report, the Sunday People spells out in
2010Jan
Thomas G Long
Charles
Jan
29
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An interview with Thomas G. Long, author of Accompany Them With Singing – The Christian Funeral. from Westminster John Knox Press on Vimeo. Thomas G Long here, one of this blog’s great heroes. Though he comes at funerals from a Christian viewpoint, most of his ideas have a universal application.
Worst funeral songs #1 – My Way
Charles
Jan
28
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There was a little light larking at the Dead Interesting blog last week as we debated best funeral songs for atheists. Off the tops of our heads we came up with You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – Bob Dylan, No God – Darkest Hour, Heaven is a Place on Earth –
Some conflict of interest, surely?
Charles
Jan
27
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Michael Parkinson HM Government Dignity Ambassador for old people, and… …the face behind Sun Life funeral plans, which are… …Co-operative funeral plans. Tut tut.
Singers for Funerals
Charles
Jan
27
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From their press release: Singers for Funerals is the brainchild of two professional opera singers, mezzo soprano Kirsty Young and soprano Toni Nunn. Both have performer with professional opera companies across the UK and beyond, including Kirsty’s own company, Hatstand Opera. Between them, the two ladies have sung in over
Burial depth
Charles
Jan
26
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Dave Matthews here, supporting my campaign for shallower burial. Want the lyric? Find it here.
Still, small voice of calm
Charles
Jan
25
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The novelist Martin Amis has called for euthanasia booths on street corners, where elderly people can end their lives with “a martini and a medal”. The author of Time’s Arrow and London Fields even predicts a Britain torn by internal strife in the 2020s if the demographic timebomb of the
