People who are opting to NOT go through the fire escape, have an array of Funky Urns before them to choose from.
Gone are the days of the old Traditional Urn that would take pride of place upon your loved one’s mantel (or in the bottom draw depending on how much they liked you).
Ok panic over. Keith Richards is innocent (this time).
James Doohan’s ashes have finally been found! Star Trek’s ‘Scotty’ had his life long dream fulfilled 3 weeks ago, when his ashes were launched into space. However, as MFF reported beaming them up was the easy part, it was finding the buggers when they returned back here on earth, that proved to be difficult.
The Shropshire Star has written a piece on the new trend of Eco-Friendly Funerals. Addressing the increasing requests for cardboard coffins one funeral home has begun to offer wicker, bamboo, willow, and even papier mache coffins! This trend has gone even further and now includes environmentally friendly grave sites forsaking headstones in lieu of indigenous wildflowers. These biodegradable coffins and low impact arrangements are ideal for those who’d like to get back to the earth as quickly as possible after they’ve bitten the dust.
Two weeks ago we reported that James Doohan, AKA Scotty, of Star Trek fame
was about to have his life-long dream, of boldly going where no-man had gone
before, fulfilled. Well his final wish came to pass and a portion of his
ashes along with 200 other people’s remains were beamed up into outer space.
Now beaming them up was obviously the easy part. It’s finding where the
rocket has landed, back here on earth, that seems to be the problem.
“What would you like in your casket with you?” Is a question in our Dead Good Funeral Plan that may seem somewhat strange to us in the West, but many cultures have been putting items in caskets, to accompany their loved ones journey to the other side, for many years.
However, the Jamaicans seem to have taken this age old ritual a tad too far. Not only are they known to place items such as knives, ganja, money, drinks, guns and jewelry in the coffin of the deceased, but according to The Jamaican Gleaner, cell phones are the number one item these days too.
When giving a eulogy one should never:
* forget the deceased’s name
* mention that the deceased owed them money
* use the phrase “kicked the bucket”
* say the “f” word
* discuss their friend’s plan to stuff a dead ocelot up his own arse later on during the service
John Cleese however, managed to break three of these five rules while giving a eulogy for his great friend Graham Chapman. Chapman, one of the six members of the famed Monty Python group, died on October 4th, 1989 at the age of 48. A service was held for him in the The Great Hall at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in front of his friends and family.
The East London Guardian reports that Elton John’s music is the most popular in Redbridge funerals, followed by Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.