‘Funeral Baked Meats’

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

Funeral insurance

Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance with a restriction on how the payout is spent. The model predicts that there is an intermediate range of...

Funeral for a friend.

Four Partially Baked Results

D Whysong and I have been carrying out a mid-IR survey of 3C radio galaxies to see which have IR-excesses, interpretable as hidden Type-1 AGN. Mostly due to relentless bad weather, we have a modest collections of observations so far. However, we can say with confidence that some radio galaxies are true kinetic, nonthermal emitters, with negligible energetic contribution from a visible or hidden...

Homocysteine: call off the funeral.

See related article, pages 456 – 460. T he authors of the much publicized though not yet published Norwegian Vitamin Study (NORVIT) 1 of vitamin therapy in coronary artery disease, are widely quoted as saying that vitamin therapy for lowering plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) was harmful, and that " homocys-teine is dead. " However, the slides of their presentation 1 do not show the B 12 status ...