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• No funeral service, no headstone … can these be good things?
  Passing It On
  REVIEW: THE LINK BETWEEN FAMILY HISTORY AND GRAVES
  Oak TreeOriginally uploaded by di_the_huntressA friend died recently. At his request, there were no services of any kind. Since he left his body to a medical school, there is no gravesite to visit.We weren’t...
• Cross patch
  The Good Funeral Guide
  REVIEW: NO CROSSES ALLOWED ON GRAVES?!!
  We must hope that spending cuts will result in the excision of not just waste but also the sort of local authority insensitivity which manifests as brainless heartlessness. Here’s an example from Somerset as...
• Dying inside
  The Good Funeral Guide
  REVIEW: CRITICAL VIDEO ON DYING IN AMERICAN PRISONS
  Our prison system is a seldom explored area of death and dying. In fact, little is known about what goes on in our prisons, mostly because people don’t care enough about those inside to be remotely interest...
• Sad ha ha
  The Good Funeral Guide
  REVIEW: WHAT INDEED DO WE WANT?
  Throughout Funeralland, bothered undertakers, exasperated priests, weathervane secular celebrants, opportunistic accessorisers and furrow-browed academics are inserting their fingers into their mouths, holdin...
• No funeral service, no headstone … can these be good things?
  Passing It On
  REVIEW: Importance of memorials
  A friend died recently. At his request, there were no services of any kind. Since he left his body to a medical school, there is no gravesite to visit.We weren’t close friends, but I greatly enjoyed his comp...
• Guest post by Rupert Callender, undertaker
  The Good Funeral Guide
  REVIEW: Excellent, heartfelt, fair explanation of a celebrant's aims
  Looking after someone who is dying can be a disempowering experience. You can find yourself always being sidelined and denied participation by people who know better. Disconnected. When someone dies, however,...
• Does mass burial horrify you?
  Good Funeral Guide
  REVIEW: Have we "evolved" beyond memorials? Evidently not.
  Interesting piece in USA Today on mass graves in Haiti and the importance people attach to marking the spot where their dead are laid - a physical point of connection. "We are hard-wired to want to know where...