Undertaking in China
“Traditionally, older folks would say this profession is only for those people who are not married, have no children, and have no choice.” Source
Belated jubilee blog
From Ed Mayo’s blog: ‘Jubilee has a different meaning for me, coming out of the Jubilee 2000 and debt campaigns. And I can’t help but smile at another meaning, unmeant for sure, in a co-operative advert cited by Private Eye this week: “Co-operative Funeralcare: congratulations to Her Majesty the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee…our service […]
New life for old dead people
It may have passed us by here at the GFG-Batesville Tower. We can wear thin. Exciting innovation, breathlessly announced in gushing PR-ese, sometimes gets the yeah-yeah. We’re talking about the US trend for putting QR codes on headstones. Has it crossed the Atlantic yet? If not, why not? We concede that it may have. It’s […]