Kiwis can

No pic. We can’t post a photo of the same old bloody bonfire every time we run a story about open-air cremation. 

Southland, New Zealand.

When Chris Ramage’s brother John died in hospital of natural causes just before Christmas 2011, his nephew (John’s son) wanted to witness his father’s cremation. In Chris’s words, “He wanted to cremate his father and he wanted to be present when it happened. The crematorium people weren’t going to let that happen – so he did it himself.”

He did it with Chris’s help. They built a huge fire which burned for two days. 

The affair has been investigated by the police and the case closed. 

It is legal to cremate dead people in New Zealand, but you’ve got to do it through the necessary paperwork. Sergeant Lury said: “It is my understanding that if he had asked for a certificate he would have got it.”

Campaigners for open-air cremation in the UK might do well to investigate the NZ model. 

Full story here

The pain passes, the beauty remains

The reasons why most of us require the presence of a dead body at a funeral are well rehearsed. There’s more to this than force of habit. 

In a nutshell, the dead body concentrates the mind and brings appropriate intensity to the occasion. It’s an ordeal, but an emotionally buy tadalafil 100mgvaluable ordeal. Take it away and you’ve got an altogether less focussed, less useful event. 

This being so, why do most celebrants omit to propose making funeral arrangements in the presence of the person who has died? Would this not also be an emotionally valuable ordeal?

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