The best funeral potatoes in Utah
Congratulations, Laurie Willberg, from the hurriedly assembled team here at the GFG-Batesville Shard. Well done! Laurie, dear reader, is the winner of Utah’s Own Funeral Potato at the Utah State Fair. Her funeral potatoes were the best in show. Funeral potatoes are unknown in the UK but de rigueur at US funerals where the need for comfort/consolation […]
Dig it shallow. They don’t.
Filming the Good Funeral Awards with Sharp Jack Media, the production company making the documentary for Sky, entailed going all over the country to shoot people in action and get their backstories. It was fun. Perhaps the most fun was watching the crew on ‘just another job’ become emotionally enmeshed by the loveliness of the […]
Keep calm and do the science
Well-meaning ignorance fuels lots of heated debate in Funeralworld. Broadsides of stats are exchanged, but how many of them are verifiable? In one thing we can trust: probably no one’s yet done the science. Take the following press release from the respected news agency Reuters: Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 million metric tonnes of carbon […]
