23 November 2012 – The Good Funeral Guide

I’ll be back, sez Prezza

23 November 2012

Charles

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Categories: coffins

Cessation is a leading signifier of death — discontinuance, expiration, quietus.

Not, it seems, if you are a member of the House of Lords (which, the record shows, you are not, you are a commoner, so there).

Speaking after being defeated in his bid to be elected as a police commissioner, John Prescott said:

“I’m not going to be sitting around in my slippers. I will be campaigning in my coffin. This is the beauty of being in the Lords, I’m still involved politics.”

Sounds like zombie politics to us.

Quote of the day

23 November 2012

Charles

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Categories: Attitudes to death, Quotes

“I suppose it’s a cliché to say you’re glad to be alive, that life is short, but to say you’re glad to be not dead requires a specific intimacy with loss that comes only with age or deep experience. One has to know not simply what dying is like, but to know death itself, in all its absoluteness.”

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Free the Ison Four!!

23 November 2012

Charles

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Categories: LM Funerals

What on earth is going on, we ask ourselves, at Henry Ison and Sons, Coventry?

Laurel Funerals has suspended four members of staff, including two funeral directors and a hearse driver.

We have fearlessly hunted down two of the accused and… well, we wonder, we really do. They have no objection to being highlighted here.

In a state of some bewilderment, we asked for a statement from Laurel ceo Deborah Kemp. She tells us, quite properly:

To protect the privacy of our employees, it is Laurel’s company policy never to talk about individual staff members or discuss internal personnel-related processes. I trust you understand and respect our stance in such matters.

Of course we do.

And we shall remain alert to future developments.

Participation is transformative

23 November 2012

Charles

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Categories: DIY funeral, Grief, home funerals

From an article by Cassandra Yonder, home funeral guide and death midwife:

The difference between home and “traditional” funerals is subtle yet significant. When families choose to stay present to care for their loved ones in death they come to understand in a real and meaningful way that the physical relationship they had with the person who died is ending. While this can be a painful transition, it offers grieving people an opportunity for adaptation which is difficult to grasp when post death care is handled entirely by professionals. Participation is transformative. Those who stay involved seem to have an easier time locating the continuing bond they still http://laparkan.com/buy-vardenafil/ share with the one who has died, and utilize those aspects of the relationship which survive death to move forward in their own lives.

Above all, home funerals bring dying and post death care back to the intimate setting of home. Families who choose to care for their own are usually those who accept that death is a normal and natural part of life that does not necessitate professional intervention. The intimacy of providing post death care for loved ones (as has been done throughout history) is a final act of love which can be surprisingly life affirming.

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