A roundup of the week in tweets. GoodFunerals Charles Cowling Burmese ambassador killed his wife and built funeral pyre for the body on his lawn, claiming diplomatic immunity http://bit.ly/iaBlTK 7 Feb Favorite Reply Delete GoodFunerals Charles Cowling LM Funerals cashes its chips. Up for sale at £100 million. Dignity sniffing. Thunderbolt

If we live long enough, our dying will be punctuated by lasts which we may even be able to mark off, one by one — last time in the garden; last time I’ll see so-and-so. Even if we don’t mark off our lasts, our nearest and dearest probably will, retrospectively.

I don’t want this blog to get moany and bitter. Had I a good news story to break today I would most certainly do so. To be honest, not much has happened for a few days — and it’s all too easy for me to become lazily reactive. And a bit moany,

You probably can’t read the ad above; the print’s too small. It appeared in the Liverpool Echo. This is what it says: The Fairways Funeral Plan is individually tailored to meet your needs. Everything featured in the [yawn] Fairways Funeral Plan is fully guaranteed no matter how high prices rise

In the same week that LM Funerals (“More than just a funeral service” — or less, depending on your point of view) decided to cash in their chips and put their chain of familyalike funeral homes on the market (yours for £100 million or so – go on, don’t be

Pictured, Rupert and Claire Callender of the Green Funeral Company, superheroes to all here at GFG Mission Control. There’s a series of 11 pics of them here. So that’s what they look like! (Your viewing experience may be marred a little by Parky flogging funeral plans in the sidebar.)

One must be careful what one says. And before one says it, one must try and resist distraction. I had intended to say a few words about Co-operative Funeralcare. Yes, again. Because they’re worth it. They are The Enemy. (Hello, Co-op lawyers, see if you can find anything actionable in

The week in tweets: GoodFunerals Charles Cowling Shop at the #Co-op and you’ll have time to bonk the missus. Yes, they really claim it! http://youtu.be/QiYW3gL3CN0 GoodFunerals Charles Cowling Professional wailing women and Scotch funerals. Great tradition subsumed by reticence, alas (Waaaaaaa!) http://bit.ly/hn2uHP GoodFunerals Charles Cowling Mobile #funeral home goes under having never caught onhttp://bit.ly/eZa6Df

The Digital Cuttlefish is the online alias of a person who, in his/her own words, is a “skeptic and atheist versifier”. DC has self-pseudonymised as such because: The cuttlefish will use its ink To hide itself – and so, I think Will I… The Digital Cuttlefish is a very skilful

Whisperer of the heart Janne Parviainen is a Finnish artist. He is a painter of gritty urban subjects and of the forest. I think he’s fantastically good — I love his work. Janne is also a photographer and he has created a series of light paintings of skeletons. Why skeletons? Janne