Source “Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time or is like to — this art by which even the poor can

  A retired couple in Northumberland have discovered that an unregarded planter in their garden is in fact a Roman sarcophagus dating from the first or second century AD. They stand to make £100,000 by selling it at auction. Full story in the Daily Mail here.  FACT: The word ‘sarcophagus’

  From an article in last Sunday’s Sunday Times:  You may not be part of Britain’s 6.4m-strong army of carers yet, but if your parents are still alive, the dilemmas surrounding how to look after them as they get older will surely come. Future Identities, a government report published last week, drew attention

  You can have the GFG blog spewed into your Facebook feed if that’s how you’d rather ‘consume’ your deathnews.  Type, er… hang on a minute… ah, yes, ‘Good Funeral Guide’ into the searchbox, go to the page, and ‘like’ it.  Brings a refreshing chill to the heedless merriment of

  Posted by Sara Elliot In case you missed it earlier in the week (it was hiding as a comment) — ED My mother’s funeral should have been a carbon copy of my father’s.  We therefore dispensed with the services of a Funeral Director, having effectively already had the Dress