A Celebration of Life in Death — Going Out in Style
VICTORIAN HORSE-DRAWN FUNERAL CARRIAGE
WITH A MATCHED PAIR OF FRESIAN BLACK HORSES
Photograph Courtesy of H. PEASGOOD AND SON - UK
July 3, 2010 — Mourning takes many different forms in the 21st century.
“Were there any doubt that the days when a funeral consisted of a dour and brief gathering focused on a gilt-handled, highly-varnished coffin were over, then the rise of the distinctly unconventional celebrity send-off is proof of a distinct shift in British attitudes to the final journey of the dead,” reports Cahal Milmo in
The Independent (UK).
“A select band of undertakers is rapidly gaining a name for overseeing funerals which depart from the norm.”
“The requirements of the nearest and dearest range from using a motorcycle sidecar as a hearse to the creation of a death mask.” Continue reading…
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