The feminine touch

Charles Cowling 0 Comments Like funeral customs , funeral pyres , funerals in other cultures , open-air cremation
Charles Cowling
18 October 2010
According to Hindu custom it has always been the duty of the eldest son or senior male relative to light a funeral pyre. Here in Britain, it is very rare indeed for a female to be one of the small group to witness a dead person being loaded into the
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Really getting real

Charles Cowling 5 Comments Like alternative funerals , Art and death , Attitudes to dead bodies , Attitudes to death , burial depth , funeral reformers , funerals in other cultures , home funerals , natural burial
Charles Cowling
18 October 2010
When Americans decide to do things differently, it seems to me, they make a clean break. Brits, on the other hand, carry over a lot of familiar stuff from the past. I mean, how often does a natural burial ground witness a scene like this? And which has the courage
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