It must have been a source of comfort for the owners of 114 Sony Aibo robotic dogs when their beloved pets were given a Buddhist send-off at a ceremony at Japan’s 450-year-old Kofukuji Temple. Read more
Posts Tagged ‘funeral customs’
New funeral policy recognises challenges and sensitivities
Monday, April 10th, 2017
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference has published a new national liturgical policy on the order of Christian funerals and guidelines for tangihanga A media release announcing the publication of For Those Who Believe: Life is Changed not Ended says the policy recognises the challenges and sensitivity required of those involved in pastoral care for the one Read more
Coffee pot maker buried in moka pot he made famous
Friday, February 26th, 2016Renato Bialetti, the Italian businessman who turned an aluminium coffee pot into a classic global design, died recently at the age of 93. In accordance with his and his family’s wishes, his ashes were interred in an urn shaped like a large version of a Moka pot, the stovetop coffee maker he introduced to the Read more
China frowns on funeral strippers
Friday, May 8th, 2015The Chinese government on Thursday announced a crackdown on strippers at funerals, a common practice in the countryside designed to attract mourners. More inspections were ordered in villages following recent cases including a funeral in Hebei province where a woman was photographed removing her bra in front of children and images of the deceased. “Illegal Read more
Please don’t say these six things at my funeral
Friday, July 18th, 2014
There will come a day, perhaps sooner, perhaps later, when the man in the coffin will be me. They say the dead don’t care, but I’m not dead yet, so as long as I’m still alive, I’d like to have some say in what goes on at my funeral. And, truth be told, I think Read more