tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12550587.post8368580038266079821..comments2023-11-05T07:35:30.331+00:00Comments on Dead Interesting: Co-op Funeralcare report on major changes in funeral customsMargaret Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01493624466366591603noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12550587.post-92037910706877350162011-01-24T20:54:39.098+00:002011-01-24T20:54:39.098+00:00I didn't intend to claim that all "celebr...I didn't intend to claim that all "celebration" funerals are ours, but I think we led the way. Somewhere or other, I have a press cutting about the way that some clergy were approaching the BHA for advice a few years back. It was sent to me by Robert Ashby, the former BHA CEO. I'll look for it tomorrow.Margaret Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01493624466366591603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12550587.post-22238471928340601952011-01-24T20:41:32.200+00:002011-01-24T20:41:32.200+00:00Seems perfectly reasonable to me to say that, alth...Seems perfectly reasonable to me to say that, although I'm not sure it's entirely valid to polarise funerals between "a celebration of a life" and 'the rest,' as it were. I've heard Christian ministers use the phrase. My own ceremonies usually seem to come out as a balance between mourning for a loss and celebrating a life, both things needing to be there. But certainly "celebrating a life" is a change from regarding a life principally as a precursor to an after-life, which used, I guess, to be a dominant general theme in Christian funerals.gloriamundihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12476712899700515223noreply@blogger.com