death

My Rebellious Tattoo for my Badass Nan

My Nan was the good old fashioned Scouse matriarch of the family. What she said was law, you did as you were told. She was also a total badass. Many of my friends have had the joy of hearing about the time a stoner was starting on her in the …

Ask a Mortician: Putting the Fun in Funeral

It might sound horribly morbid, but I am filled with curiosity about funerals and the ways that we choose to remember and memorialise our dead. I haven’t quite started carefully crafting a Pinterest board filled with coffins and shrouds and suitably mournful bouquets, but my funeral and the arrangements surrounding my death …