Tag: funeral

• Rites of Passage and Passing

  

  I lowered a lovely man into the earth today; an unexpected honour and not a little emotional. Along with a few others, I carried his wicker coffin from the bier on which we had pulled him to his graveside, and gently ran the tapes through my hands as he was accepted back into the land […]

  bish

  1 Mar 2019

  family, spirituality

  burial, death, funeral, Green

• Ramblings on death

  It’s been hard to get back to this wibbling stream of unconsciousness. I think it’s been since attending a family funeral… the funeral service went as well as these things can do; the service was a Catholic Mass which was fine and apart from the obvious issues of being on ‘the wrong team’! But after […]

  bish

  12 Dec 2007

  environmental, Ethics, spirituality

  burial, catholic, ceremony, cremation, Druid, funeral, ritual