“One of the best pieces of advice I had came from a friend whose husband died suddenly… “Don’t forget that you are you,” she said cryptically. How right she was. She meant that I should not allow myself to be changed by my experience of grief.”

  From this morning’s Times: A Christian group is to be allowed to claim “God can heal” after an Advertising Standards Authority ruling. Healing on the Streets, based in Wiltshire, can use the phrase only on its website, which the authority has said is outside its jurisdiction and not in

    The term ‘family business’ has many meanings   In a spirit of you’re-no-more-a family-business-than-we-are, Dignity complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about an ad by a Lodge Brothers funeral home in a local paper. In the words of the ASA: “At E. Wootten & Son we take