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Caring for the dead 27 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
Making Dead Bodies Beautiful from The Feed on Vimeo. Moderately graphic only. Respectful and, for people who do not work in the funerals business, reassuring.
What a wonderful thing! 26 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Hat tip Michael Jarvis From the Daily Telegraph 26 August 2013.
A eulogy sandwich is not enough to nourish grief 26 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
As Jenny Uzell embarks on a series of posts which will consider the knotty question, What Is A Funeral For? it’s worth reflecting on what has been a game of two halves, funeralwise, in the last ...
A wee whiff of Auld Reekie 23 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
The stopping train takes more or less forever to get to Edinburgh through the fertile fracking fields of the desolate north-east. I’d been invited to look round Scotmid Co-operative Funeral Direct...
A take on the afterlife 23 Aug 2013 | 02:47 am
Posted by Richard Rawlinson, our religious correspondent Heaven, Hell and Purgatory are states of a human soul, not places as often represented in human language. In Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas A...
The Purpose of Funerals: Overview 20 Aug 2013 | 01:57 pm
Aristotle (r) The first in a major series of posts by guest blogger Jenny Uzell, scholar and undertaker One of the highlights of the National Funeral Exhibition for me earlier this year (other...
Absence of belief is not the be-all and end-all 19 Aug 2013 | 02:55 pm
In an article in the Telegraph, atheist Brendan O’Neill asks: When did atheists become so teeth-gratingly annoying? Surely non-believers in God weren’t always the colossal pains in the collective ...
Funeral plans and the ‘peace of mind’ delusion 17 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
It may be that the media are beginning to wake up to the inadequacies of pay-now-die-later funeral plans. The Times has a piece today which, chances are, you won’t be able to read online because yo...
The way we were 15 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm
Elderly people reflect on their reflections of themselves when young. Entitled ‘Reflections’, it is the work of Tom Hussey. Hat-tip to Caitlin Doughty, who posted a link to this on her Facebook ...
Good Funeral Awards 2013 — The Longlist 15 Aug 2013 | 11:03 am
The Good Funeral Awards judges deliberating From Brian Jenner over at GoodFuneralAwards The judging panel of the Good Funeral Awards have sifted through more than 600 nominations for this year...
