The GFG Blog
2009Mar
Pomp your funeral
Charles
Mar
16
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There’s nothing like a good funeral procession, a walking funeral procession. It’s a much underestimated component of a good funeral. Regrettably, most people do not bother to have one at all, these days. Only the famous and those who stand for something get proper cortege. And Romanies, of course; they
Co-operative Funeralcare and the GMB: a response
Charles
Mar
12
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Here is a response from Phil Edwards, Head of Public Relations at The Co-operative, to the stance which The Good Funeral Guide has taken on Co-operative Funeralcare’s derecognition of the GMB union, which I reproduce unmediated. You should read it together with the statement by the GMB. Dear Mr Cowling,
Grief and giggles, never far apart
Charles
Mar
11
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Death is on everyone’s lips
Charles
Mar
10
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There’s an interesting piece in Monday’s Guardian by Madeliene Bunting examining the current popular appetite for death, and its focus on, inter alia, Jade Goody, Ivan Cameron, Wendy Richard, and Peter and Penny Duff, who killed themselves in Switzerland. For a full fortnight, it seems, every frontpage story in the
Free radicals
Charles
Mar
09
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A waft of spring gets the blood coursing, makes your toes wiggle. It’s time to peep out of the burrow and see what’s up. I’ll tell you what’s up. Transitus is having a get together at Bowden House just outside Totnes. It’ll take a full three hours to get there,
Brummie rebel
Charles
Mar
05
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When the present looks awful we seek refuge in the past. We fix on a time when we would have been safe. Is that why, when someone dies, we look for an undertaker who still dresses as he did in 1873? Maybe. There’s a lot of call for it. And
A statement to the Good Funeral Guide from the GMB
Charles
Mar
02
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The co-operative movement has a history to be proud of. Founded by working people for working people, its principles were formulated by the Rochdale Pioneers in 1844. Given its origins, it makes you blink and/or howl with disbelief to learn that Co-operative Funeralcare, the People’s Undertaker, has derecognised a trade
2009Feb
Something for the weekend
Charles
Feb
27
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Ivan
Charles
Feb
26
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To whom does grief belong? For whom should we grieve? How should we behave when we grieve and what should grief be allowed to spill over into? When motorists cut up a cortege, sound their horns and curse it for getting in the way we observe the collapse of community
