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

Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love, London 2009 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

Death makeup offered by Illamasqua in partnership with Levertons 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