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Skull Servant posted:Another factor that my partner's mother, who is a funeral director in England, cites is that there's just less funeral homes and more people who need to be buried in general. This creates a bit of a backlog. Compare that to Ireland where nearly every town has a pub/funeral home combo. I'm at The Village Inn. I'm at the funeral home. I'm at the combination Village Inn and funeral home  
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Skull Servant posted:This creates a bit of a backlog. (some people actually believe this) Oh dear me posted:Embalming also seems ghastly to me. I quite like the woodland idea. Or at sea. It does mean that that you need to have the wake in the big fridge or be careful that your cats don't do a desecration though, which will put a fair few people off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMw5E2rzKWg
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When my dad died in 2015 it was at least 10 days (can't remember exactly) before we could even register the death. This was because mum tried calling the number she'd been given by the undertaker to book the appointment to register the death and it kept ringing and ringing into what finally transpired to be an empty office occupied for approx 1 hour on a Friday morning (undertaker did not know this as it was apparently a recent change that the relevant dept hadn't bothered to notify people). She hadn't told us she couldn't get an answer, and when we found out, we discovered that you had to book the appointment online and the earliest appointment we could get was at least 10 days after the death AND she had to travel to Gloucester to do it. Fortunately, we are computer literate and my sister has a car otherwise I don't know how she would have managed (a taxi would cost over £100 let alone it waiting around all day to do the business at the relevant offices). People who live in cities who can register the deaths the same day don't know how privileged they are! We did have further delays due to some special circumstances relating to dad's employers (before he retired) so dad's funeral (C of Wales funeral, C of E burial, don't ask) was 5 or 6 weeks after his death. I just attended a zoom funeral yesterday of a friend's husband who died 4th December. It was an unexpected death (nothing to do with covid), he was just a year older than me and had a few weeks earlier had a minor surgical procedure so the coroner had to get involved. Re natural (woodland) burials. An old school friend is buried at the Usk one (https://uskcastle.com/usk-castle/natural-burials/). Personally, I find it a bit bleak. No markers are allowed. I do quite like the idea of being a tree though (memories of Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead spring to mind!) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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I posted about it when it happened but my dad died in Spain in 2020 (before the pandemic kicked in) and it was a nightmare. Spain have weird rules and iirc will only release the body and death certificate to the funeral home, but our insurance company wouldn't arrange a funeral home until they had the death certificate, which meant we spent two days sat in a hotel in Granada waiting for one side to give in to the other side. Fortunately, the British Embassy was very helpful and did some translation for us when my GCSE Spanish failed to translate "no you morons we need the certificate first". He then had to be flown back to the UK (after we had left Spain) and taken to the funeral home we had arranged, so it was like 2 weeks before we had a funeral.
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On the death traditions thing I was quite thrown in Italy when I discovered that someone's expected to wait in vigil with the body before the funeral and had to basically spend five days sitting next to an open casket.
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Answers Me posted:Worked for her youngest son: loving lol quote:Edward obtained a C-grade and two D-grades at A-level,[6] I wonder why.
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I never really thought of royals doing GCSEs or A levels, I assumed them getting magicked into university for some honorary degree or other. Turns out that's pretty much what happens.
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I don't want to be macabre but is a corpse not a little... fruity after a few weeks
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keep punching joe posted:when i die i want to die in a peat bog so i can come back as a bog mummy. I'm surprised no one's tried making peat and corpse smoked whisky yet (they probably have).
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't want to be macabre but is a corpse not a little... fruity after a few weeks That's liz truss she is always like that
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Re natural (woodland) burials. Some people like the idea of going to a specific row with a specific written marker and thinking "that's them" and leaving some flowers, others like the idea of just wandering around in the woods and listening to the birdsong and rustling of leaves and thinking "that's them". Reminds me a little of Lenin and Ho Chi Minh and all the others who said "pay your respects to the ideals I represented and please don't put my earthly remains on some sort of pedestal" and then just got ignored. ThomasPaine posted:I don't want to be macabre but is a corpse not a little... fruity after a few weeks
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Necrothatcher posted:On the death traditions thing I was quite thrown in Italy when I discovered that someone's expected to wait in vigil with the body before the funeral and had to basically spend five days sitting next to an open casket. Didn't you do that when Thatcher died, with a hammer and a stake?
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't want to be macabre but is a corpse not a little... fruity after a few weeks They replace the blood with cum to stop that from happening apparently.
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Name him the new Duke of Edinburgh. Edinburgh deserves that.
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forkboy84 posted:They replace the blood with cum to stop that from happening apparently. forkboy84 posted:Name him the new Duke of Edinburgh. Edinburgh deserves that. Watch as I combine these posts and formulate this reply: Duke new cum
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This is exactly the book that made me interested in going this route
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keep punching joe posted:Is England so nostalgic for the empire days that they've reintroduced smog to London? That's two references to smog in London this morning when it's literally the clearest, sunniest day that I've seen in *months*. Apparently because it's also the first still day of the winter someone put out a pollution warning, because London can get an inversion layer on days like this, but there's not even the normal winter haze.
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Failed Imagineer posted:This is exactly the book that made me interested in going this route It's a shame OSC is such a shithead, really.
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https://twitter.com/GeorgePointon_/status/1481961288024694788 Click through for nothing but better candidates than we have right now, other than from Belle, who needs to be reported to Prevent.
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sebzilla posted:It's a shame OSC is such a shithead, really. Yeah, also that his later books were poisoned by his insanse shitheadedness. The first 2 books in both the Ender and Enders Shadow series are great tho iirc
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Failed Imagineer posted:But also, as a genuine question to thread - why do UK funerals happen weeks later whereas Irish funerals happen within 3days? I feel like there was some effort post about this ages ago but I don't recall Generally the delay is because of everything in local government still being run via physical post, multiple paper forms needing to be confirmed by different office locations, and a lot of people in positions of authority who leave paperwork unopened 'til the next day or only work part-time. So in a lot of cases one form that needs to be signed will be sent out in the post by the undertaker, the office will read it the next day (or the next), maybe wait a day to respond, send it off to the next office who will get it a day later, sign it, post it, and it will be recieved signed and ready 2-3 days later by the undertaker, 4-5 if someone leaves it 'til next day to deal with or misses the post. And there are follow-up forms that can't be done until the first set of paperwork is completed that can add just as much time if they're also delayed. One of my most frequent duties was phoning to check if x department had definitely recieved the paperwork for Mrs Y, and more than once could hear the person on the other end tearing open envelopes. This was 10 years ago so it's possible some of the forms can now be done digitally, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that it hasn't changed, or that the e-form is printed out by IT and physically posted overnight to another department within the local authorities. The entire funeral industry is very resistant to modernisation. Our director got around this by literally driving to the different offices, talking to the managers (who he knew as friends from social events) and getting them to have someone quickly sign the form while he was there, then driving it to the next office and dropping it off in person. If they needed to sign it as well, he'd get them to do it while he was there and then drive back having cut 3-5 days off the admin time. If he was quick, he could get the follow-up forms in before 5 as well. Admittedly the reason he usually did this is because he was running late or had forgotten a form, but he had a good rep with local Irish families for getting the turnaround done quickly. goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/GeorgePointon_/status/1481961288024694788 Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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sebzilla posted:It's a shame OSC is such a shithead, really. Sounds good. Those values sound like poo poo if you need to prevent that to keep them. goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/GeorgePointon_/status/1481961288024694788
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Failed Imagineer posted:But also, as a genuine question to thread - why do UK funerals happen weeks later whereas Irish funerals happen within 3days? I feel like there was some effort post about this ages ago but I don't recall When my grandmother died it just took a long time to get everything sorted. I suppose it's just a low capacity and low expectations for turnaround.
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I don't care what happens when I'm gone. Am the youngest in my family, so no descendents to worry about. Probably a pauper's funeral and an official council mourner. Assuming the cat left anything to bury. Though we do have a family tomb in France. (Mum's family were old money, but her mother gambled away everything after the war)
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smellmycheese posted:lol. Liz Truss has decided to start talking in a much deeper voice to sound more Prime Ministerial She's gone full theranos
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