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Putting the truth on the printed page

THIS issue The Green Funeral Company’s Rupert Callender is looking forward to his book being published. THINGS are about to get strange for me right now, as my book will have, by the time this column is published, be well and truly launched and out there, warts,...

Putting the truth on the printed page

THIS issue The Green Funeral Company’s Rupert Callender is looking forward to his book being published. THINGS are about to get strange for me right now, as my book will have, by the time this column is published, be well and truly launched and out there, warts,...

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Keeping the stories of our dead alive

The Green Funeral Company’s Rupert Callender offers an ecological alternative to traditional funerals. This issue, following his participation in The Toxteth Day Of The Dead, Ru talks about new ways of thinking about keeping the stories of our dead alive in our mouths...

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Creation from the wreckage

The Green Funeral Company’s Rupert Callender offers an ecological alternative to traditional funerals. Here Ru marks a different finale - the end of a long running partnership. AND so after 21 years as my business partner, and 17 years as my wife, Claire has left The...

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We are all grieving now

The Green Funeral Company’s Claire and Rupert Callender offer an ecological alternative to traditional funerals. Ru attends to our collective grief. EVEN if we do not know someone who has died, as a result of the Covid pandemic or anything else, we are all grieving....

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