Living funerals are not completely unknown in this country but they are very rare.
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The missing word is ‘Humanist’
My experience of funerals was that you arrived sad and left miserable, but the humanist attitude was different.
Mister Groove
A good funeral, to quote Tony Walter, Emeritus Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, should be “intensely and creatively personal; it should involve as many of the mourners as possible, cherish the individual who died and weave together the survivors in bonds of love.” Mike’s definitely fitted that description. A husband and father as … Continue Reading
Red Green Colourblindness
In the matter of life and death, football will always take precedence.
The Soundtrack of Your Life
Ronnie wanted lots of music for his funeral but what he DIDN’T want was for me to talk about his life.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, soil to soil
It’s time to rewrite the Book of Common Prayer.
It’s Your Funeral…
Wullie’s story was a time capsule from an era that’s almost gone from our memories.
Let The People Sing!
People love humanist funerals for their compassion, their honesty and their humour: they choose them for what they include, not what they exclude.
How Apps are helping us celebrate life in the time of coronavirus
My role is to speak for the bereaved, and the more accurately I do that, the better the ceremony. Having multiple contributions from family and friends writing from wherever in the world they happen to be allows me to create a richly textured, multi-faceted portrait.
Love in the time of Coronavirus
How David Bowie and the coronavirus are changing the way we deal with death