The GFG Blog
2009Nov
So much prettier than headstones?
Charles
Nov
20
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My thanks to Melissa Stewart of Native Woodland Natural Burial for this delicious pic (click it to make it bigger) of reindeer at the natural burial ground at Usk Castle Chase. “So much prettier than headstones!” she says. And I have to confess to a weakness to that line of
Putting death where it belongs
Charles
Nov
19
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/homefunerals/3522283997/ Time was, when life was hard, death wasn’t so bad, especially if you believed, as so many did, that your recompense for a life of unrelieved misery and privation here below was the reward of unlimited bliss up there. The prospect of paradise makes a lot of sense when
Real time and ritual time
Charles
Nov
18
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I was interviewed the other day by Margaret Holloway of Hull University. She and her team are researching spirituality in modern funerals. Updates on their research were posted on their website, but they’ve mysteriously vanished. She raised what seems to her to be the curious practice of conducting the committal
Perpetua’s Garden – a great Idea
Charles
Nov
13
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The really interesting thing about logic is what it makes people do–where it takes them. It starts with a Question which begets an Idea which resolves itself into a Certainty, fortifies itself with Conviction, draws up a Strategy, then acts with Singlemindedness. This is a human thing, it’s not the
Post mortem photos
Charles
Nov
10
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Is this custom going to make a comeback? Why not? More here.
Pugnacious priests and supine celebrants
Charles
Nov
10
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A little while ago a United Reformed Church minister wrote this: I’ve had a bit of a narrow escape : I’m doing a funeral today and went to see the family three days ago. As I was leaving the house, something they said suggested that they had requested that “the
Burial depth – my last word
Charles
Nov
10
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The natural burial ground at Sun Rising taken from their website – www.nrbgrounds.co.uk For some time now I have been nagging natural burialists about the depth at which they inter their bodies. My concern has been that, beneath the topsoil, a body is not going to enjoy the ecologically positive
Bookcase coffin
Charles
Nov
09
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I know I’ve blogged about this before. I’m doing so again because William Warren, the ingenious designer of these handsome shelves which can be reassembled as a coffin is now offering free instructions so that you can make your own. Simply email him your height and build and you’ll be
