Charles Cowling

Talking and thinking about attitudes to dying, death, funerals, grief and commemoration.

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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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@preplanfuneral Yes, an ethical, consumer-facing financial product is good news. Here in the UK the market is becoming overheated and ugly.

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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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@storyshucker Love the empty chair!

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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.

[Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death®, A Good Goodbye @TheFamilyPlot]

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."

[Charles Cowling @GoodFunerals]

"He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb looks with infinite
compassion upon the bereaved and sorrowing in the hour of their desolation."

[Charles Cowling @GoodFunerals]

"... when our dissolution draws nigh, and the cold winds of death come sighing around us—and his chill dews glisten upon our foreheads..."

[Charles Cowling @GoodFunerals]

"Here the sceptre of the prince and the staff of the beggar lie side by side."

[Charles Cowling @GoodFunerals]

"The funeral bell tolls in our ears, and the mourners go about the streets; yet how seldom do we seriously consider our approaching end."

[Charles Cowling @GoodFunerals]

"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.