Tragedy of 100,000 buried in paupers' graves over past five years
So says the garish headline on the Daily Mail.
They go on. "Soaring funeral prices and the breakdown of families mean about 21,000 pensioners die every year without the money for funeral bills and with no relatives willing or able to pay.
Their funerals are paid for by councils, many of which have admitted they inter the bodies in communal plots or cremate them to save costs."
So bloody what? Naturally, a charity want the government to do "something". Which will inevitable involve said charity having lots of meetings with government officials, at public expense, to decide what this "something will be".
But, again, so bloody what. My Uncle Ian (pictured above) died three years back, a month shy of his 90th birthday. He lived in a cooncil flat, and spent his pension on whisky, baccy and deep fried chicken suppers. He'd never married, had no kids that he would admit to, and died skint. So when I got the phone call from the polis, I got the cooncil to cremate him, and bury his ashes in a mass grave.
I was the only relative who went aboot him, and there was no-one to come to his funeral bar me, so what was the point? The cooncil, shockingly, handled everything splendidly, and even told me when the cremation was taking place, so I could say a wee prayer.
It wisnae a tragedy, it was just life. Or rather death. The system works for once, so leave it alone, eh.
3 comments:
Just to let you know, the picture of the gravediggers you're using is mine. You lifted it from The Mail.
Your blog may be a hobby, but I have hobbies too and I pay for the things I use in pursuit of my hobbies. I don't just lift them from someone else.
I highly recommend you desist using other people's work on your blog because one day you'll get a very nasty lawyer's letter, and then it'll be too late to complain that you didn't know about copyright.
I suggest you only use images you take yourself or for which you have asked permission to use.
In the meantime, please remove my photo from your blog article. You might want to go through and remove all the other images you've "borrowed" from elsewhere.
Jesus, you could have just asked! And when I get the lawyers letters, I'll point them toward every single blog everywhere in the world, and ask for everyone to be charged alongside me. And then I'll instruct a lawyer to send cease and desist letters to every record company and every PR company who has ever used something I've written without permission or credit, and put a pile of people out of work. Or maybe I'll just use some common sense.
I could have asked?! Why couldn't you have asked? How does that work? Photographers are meant to find every blogger who nicks their work, then ask all the bloggers to remove their work...
Here's how it works, you want something you ask. It's called common sense and courtesy. How you fight the theft of your work is entirely your decision, not mine.
Why do bloggers always get so chippy when they're caught out?
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