Skeletons in the closet — and other places
From an article in yesterday’s Guardian: The University of Cologne is investigating after hundreds of human body parts were found in the cellars of its institute of anatomy, apparently abandoned there for years.
Advertising Standards Authority passes judgement on Colourful Coffins
Copied and pasted directly from the ASA website here: Advertising Standards Authority Adjudication on Colourful Coffins Ltd Colourful Coffins Ltd Printworks Crescent Road Cowley Oxford OX4 2PB Date: 14 March 2012 Media: Internet (on own site), Brochure, Magazine Sector: Business Number of complaints: 1 Complaint Ref: A11-176349 Ad A claim on the […]
The status of marriages and funerals
Posted by Richard Rawlinson I recently had a conversation with a priest about the topic du jour: same-sex civil partnerships–which offer legal equality–becoming known as marriages, so gaining semantic equality by reinterpreting a term traditionally reserved for the union between a man and woman as they become husband and wife. For some reason, the discussion […]