Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

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  1. sushidog

    Oh, I dunno, there’s a long tradition in it, isn’t there? I mean, one used to hire mourners to beat their breasts and tear their hair and wail and moan, just to make sure everyone knew how very important the deceased was. And hiring someone to tend a grave doesn’t seem that weird. Hell, if my dad gets his way, and is buried in the depths of Devon, I may have to do it one day; there’s no way I can pop over to Morebath every other week for a tidy-up!

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    • neilh

      Thats true, but at some level if you’re not in a position to tend a grave then perhaps it would be more appropriate to find some other kind of memorial. Certainly I would not want to be a high maintainance corpse.

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      • sushidog

        Well, possibly, but it won’t really be my choice; my parents will buy their plots and make their own funeral arrangements, with or without me.

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  2. orddu

    But if someone’s buried in Surrey and you’re in e.g. Scotland, wouldn’t you perhaps rather have someone do it for you than it not be done at all/very very rarely?

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  3. Anonymous

    outsourcing your grieving

    Yep i agree my grammy sometimes want’s me to go and tidy up the grave for her, cos she cant get out much now. And when we tell her it all done she releived.So i think its a great little biz, it helps them who have moved out of the area or just to frail to physically do the job.

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