Posted by Charles
Once in a while we get a really interesting email here at the sweatshop we call GFG Central. The toiling minions are, as I write, clustering round the screen of the recipient. I’ll have to whip them back to their desks in a moment.
The point is, it’s not for them. It’s for you. Can you help?
I have been asked to coordinate a live burial ritual on Sat 24th September, and the venue we were going to use has fallen through. So I’m looking for a London location where we can carry this out.
Ideally we’d like to stage this in a house with a garden. It needs to be somewhere where it’s OK for about 30 people to be in the house all night, partying some. (I don’t think it’ll be wild, but 30 people do make some noise.) We have a small budget to pay for the right venue.
The ritual itself involves digging a shallow grave, putting the person in it, burying her (only shallow though, for safety reasons) and then tending her while her friends mourn her for the night. The wake will have the flavour of a party.
In the morning she will be ‘resurrected’ and carried through to a bath, where she will be lovingly washed and cleansed.
I’m wondering if you might know someone who would be able / willing to host this at their place?
If you can, send us an email and we’ll pass it on to the event organiser: charles@goodfuneralguide.co.uk
For those of you with long memories, this is not the first time that the minions have been excited by this sort of proposal. remember this?
https://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/2010/10/going-down/
It was a full week before I had any decent work from them.
