Charles Cowling

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 is.gd/NVFgoc

Tom Lynch: "Preneed funeral plans have turned every sadness into a sales-op and every funeral into a retail event." Discuss.

Thank you for trying, @CocaCola_GB. I know you would have if you could have. Appreciate the excellent customer service.

Please please please please @CocaCola_GB lend a lorry to bring a young fan of yours to his funeral. #thingsgobetterwithCoke.

Here are some ?challenging? modern post-mortem photos. is.gd/HTK67s

@storyshucker Love the empty chair!

Here's hoping @CocaCola_GB can bring a young man in Evesham to his funeral on one of their lorries. #celebrationoflife #lastwishes

#ff @InspiredGoodbye who are bringing creativity and beauty to bereavement

"You can't live in a shrine but you mustn't lose memory." Roy Strong on the wireless just now.

"Too poor to die." They say it's a bad thing. Why's it a bad thing? Poverty is the elixir of life!

@InspiredGoodbye Please please please let me see your bereavement cards!!

"Soft and safe be the earthly bed of our brother; bright and glorious be his rising from it."

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

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

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

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

"Change and decay are written upon every living thing. The cradle and the coffin stand side by side." Lovin the masons!

"...the silent realm, where lie the unnumbered dead. The sunshine and the storm pass over them and they are not disturbed." Masonic liturgy.