Monday brain gym
Posted by Charles Cowling Coming soon, A Giving Tribute — ‘the caring alternative to funeral flowers’ — a project I wholeheartedly endorse. Over in Canada, “Cartoonist Adrian Raeside once placed an obituary in the Times Colonist in which he asked mourners to send singlemalt scotch and Cuban cigars in lieu of flowers.” [Source] What’s your alternative […]
Good short life, short good death
Posted by Charles Cowling I HAVE wonderful friends … one, from Texas, put a hand on my thinning shoulder, and appeared to study the ground where we were standing. He had flown in to see me. “We need to go buy you a pistol, don’t we?” he asked quietly. He meant to shoot myself with. […]
RT @GoodFunerals
Posted by Charles Cowling What is the well dressed corpse wearing? Clothes which co-decompose: http://bit.ly/jOJlxm Aussie undertakers strategise for the future. Better experience, better service. Full marks. http://bit.ly/m8t88b Music therapy for the dying. Touching. http://nyti.ms/mzIjDW Queenslanders urged to employ industry regulator to weed out “rouge [sic] or ‘cowboy’ operators.” http://bit.ly/leMNWF From the US: “for-profit health chains are cynically […]
