Charles Cowling
@GoodFunerals
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Talking and thinking about attitudes to dying, death, funerals, grief and commemoration.
Birmingham UK
Joined March 2010
On today's blog we have a pop at the magical financial product that grants us peace at the last when our work is done http://t.co/IFxMrl0tgT
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Tom Lynch: "Preneed funeral plans have turned every sadness into a sales-op and every funeral into a retail event." Discuss.
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Thank you for trying, @CocaCola_GB. I know you would have if you could have. Appreciate the excellent customer service.
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Please please please please @CocaCola_GB lend a lorry to bring a young fan of yours to his funeral. #thingsgobetterwithCoke.
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Here are some ?challenging? modern post-mortem photos. http://t.co/73VROnGUY8
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Here's hoping @CocaCola_GB can bring a young man in Evesham to his funeral on one of their lorries. #celebrationoflife #lastwishes
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#ff @InspiredGoodbye who are bringing creativity and beauty to bereavement
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"You can't live in a shrine but you mustn't lose memory." Roy Strong on the wireless just now.
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A new product displayed at NFDA's expo: The Parlor Stool for visitations http://t.co/c7mTR4rkZU
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"Too poor to die." They say it's a bad thing. Why's it a bad thing? Poverty is the elixir of life!
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@InspiredGoodbye Please please please let me see your bereavement cards!!
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"Soft and safe be the earthly bed of our brother; bright and glorious be his rising from it."
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"He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb looks with infinite compassion upon the bereaved and sorrowing in the hour of their desolation."
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"... when our dissolution draws nigh, and the cold winds of death come sighing around us—and his chill dews glisten upon our foreheads..."
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"Here the sceptre of the prince and the staff of the beggar lie side by side."
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"The funeral bell tolls in our ears, and the mourners go about the streets; yet how seldom do we seriously consider our approaching end."
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"Change and decay are written upon every living thing. The cradle and the coffin stand side by side." Lovin the masons!
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"...the silent realm, where lie the unnumbered dead. The sunshine and the storm pass over them and they are not disturbed." Masonic liturgy.
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@graveweekend No. Do tell me if the Gatwande book's any good, IDS.
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