“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

  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

  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.  Click on the letter to make it bigger. 

    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

  Death, from the Worrydoll series by Renee Laferriere Cinderhouse. Each doll embodies ‘one of the twelve most recurrent and deepseated human concerns’. Brilliant. Full artist’s statement here.   Hat tip to Morbid Anatomy