GMFU non-self adjusting
The cat is out of the bag. Monday’s Dispatches will mount a televisual airstrike on Co-operative Funeralcare. Channel 4 managed to get an undercover reporter into a hub and filmed bodies stacked “like TV sets” in racks – a disturbing image which will have a devastating impact on an organisation which has spent a great […]
Co-operative Funeralcar
Brand new wheels for grief journeys bought by Co-op Funeralcare in Nottingham. One point two million quid’s worth. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comfortable.” More here.
Belated jubilee blog
From Ed Mayo’s blog: ‘Jubilee has a different meaning for me, coming out of the Jubilee 2000 and debt campaigns. And I can’t help but smile at another meaning, unmeant for sure, in a co-operative advert cited by Private Eye this week: “Co-operative Funeralcare: congratulations to Her Majesty the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee…our service […]
Cockup
The following is an abridged version of a story in this is Cheshire A GRIEVING sibling says she is angry and upset after the wrong picture was placed by her brother’s coffin at his funeral. Directors at Co-op Funeralcare also forgot to lay a Manchester United flag over the coffin as directed. The 63-year-old said: […]
Downer of the day
According to Co-operative Funeralcare, which takes care of a quarter of all UK funerals, sales of its Gold where to buy cialis online yahoo plan rose by 34% last year, while those of personalised, tailor made plans rose by 16%. More here
Publishing event of the year!
The Natural Death Handbook, Fifth Edition A thoroughly updated and revised edition of the Natural Death Centre‘s celebrated handbook. Now presented alongside a new collection of essays on death, dying and funeral practices by doctors, historians, authors, poets, theologians and artists including Richard Barnett, David Jay Brown, Dr Sheila Cassidy, Charles Cowling, Bill Drummond, Stephen Grasso, […]
Chumps hit a bump
Fury in abundance is currently being vented by the good people of Portsmouth against the bungling dolts of The Co-operative Funeralcare. The citizenry is furious that Effcare intend to upgrade their branch in the residential district of Copnor by converting offices into a ‘chapel of rest’ where dead people can be visited by their relatives. Residents have […]
Co-operatives co-operate — up to a point
Posted by Charles If any group of people in a local community wished to establish a funeral service inspired and informed by the principles and ideals of co-operativism, what would their position be with regard to the sixth Rochdale Principle if they found themselves in the circumstance of potentially competing with an established co-op funeral […]
Let’s go somewhere nice
Posted by Charles So badly has the image of the co-operative movement been damaged by Co-operative Funeralcare it’s easy to forget that, actually, the model of co-operation retains both its beauty and its potency. A bunch of people come together “to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically […]
WTF
Sadly my father recently passed away and the thoughts of my family turned to appointing a funeral director. It was a toss-up between a local family-run firm and the Co-operative Funeralcare. In the end we chose the family firm, but it was a close-run thing. When I registered my father’s death, the registrar said that […]
