Archive: 23 February 2012

Quote of the day

23 February 2012
Charles
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Categories: crematoria, Quotes

“I think it is a great shame because the cross was etched into the glass when it was first built and what was special about it was that if you looked at it, it gave the effect of being on a hill in the distance.

“We have people of all different beliefs using the crem and no one has ever objected to the cross being there. We are a Christian society and if we went abroad we would expect to honour the beliefs of that country.”

Councillor Colin Barrett (Con) on the removal of the cross from Haycombe crematorium, Bath. [Source] 

And it’s goodnight Vienna from him

23 February 2012
Charles
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Categories: Hearses

Former HGV driver Darren Abey has created a hearse fit for fans of Del Boy and Rodney and is marketing it under the snappy business name of Only Fools and Hearses.

Says Mr Abey, ‘I got two scrap cars, both three-wheelers, which weren’t worth anything and only useful for their fibreglass parts. We stripped and gutted them and cut up the vehicle to stretch it to a length of 8 foot 8 inches, so we had a stretched three-wheeler that would be suitable to use as the trailer.’

The conversion cost him £8,000. His hearse even has leopard print fake fur on the dashboard.

We can’t find a website for Mr Abey’s business, but we can tell you that the full story is in the Daily Mail here.

Die to let

23 February 2012
Charles
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Categories: Bastards, bureaucracy

In Dorset a woman has been billed for £3,000 because her father negligently failed to give his care home 28 days’ notice of his own death. Full story in the Daily Mail here. 

Thought for the day

23 February 2012
Charles
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Categories: Attitudes to death

A culture that keeps death out of sight and mind is one that is increasingly lost for words when comforting others in their grief. Instead of having that important conversation in the supermarket with the lady down the street who has lost her husband, we slip down the next aisle with the self-justifying thought that we do not want to disturb her … Where death becomes a private matter, it becomes so much more difficult to reach out to others precisely when they need it most.

Source

The Good Funeral Guide
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